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Mon 08 Aug 2007Suicide rate in State higher than previously calculatedSuicide figures for the Republic are significantly higher than previously calculated, a leading suicide expert has said. And the first scientific evidence to support the clustering of suicides here has also emerged.Kevin Malone, professor of psychiatry at University College Dublin (UCD) and St Vincent's University Hospital, will present new research at an international meeting on youth suicide in Dublin next week.