TOMMY Tiernan has opened up about his pain at losing his mother to suicide in 2010 - admitting the way she died wasn't 'a surprise' to him.
The comedian spoke honestly about the death of his mother Helen – revealing for the first time that she died by suicide.
The Navan native said: “So my mam basically took her own life in 2010 and what I think happened, definitely not with all suicides, but with some people… I think my mam, she obviously found things incredibly difficult.
