Support group set up after 11yr-old’s suicide

a force for good and founded the Healing Untold Grief Group (HUGG) with a number of specific aims.

Speaking at the inquest into her daughter’s death earlier this week, Fiona said: “The aim was to bring people together who have lost others to suicide. To provide peer support so people don’t feel so alone.

“It is also a point of information and a suicide authority to ring-fence services and prevent gaps, to prevent others going through what we have gone through.”

The family did everything they could to help Milly after becoming aware of her Instagram post on November 3, 2015. The family said in a statement: “We spoke with her and with her school and we took her to her GP who we are told are the gatekeepers of treatment in Irish society.

“If you, as we did, believe that the Irish College of General Practitioners require that the 2,500 GPS in Ireland should be skilled in the practice of how to make a clinical assessment of suicidal risk then you will be shocked to know the answer is no.

“It is currently not obligatory for Irish GPS to be specifically trained in identifying the recognised red flags associated with suicidal risk.” The Tuomey family had lived in Switzerland for five years and Milly was a fluent speaker of German and Swiss German.

On New Year’s Day last year the family ate dinner together and watched a film. That evening, Milly declared she was bored and left the room.

She was found moments later in a critical condition. Milly was rushed to Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital where she died on January 4.

Dublin Coroner’s Court was told on Thursday how Irish children as young as seven have expressed suicidal ideation.

Psychiatrist Dr Antoinette D’alton said: “Years ago this would have been unimaginable. Now suicidal ideation is increasing in children as young as seven. There is a care pathway but it is under resourced.”