A 12-year-old Irish boy, now living in Chicago, has written and directed a film that has captured the hearts of over half a million people online.

The Department of Education has been accused of “bullying tactics” after it wrote letters to people who were sexually abused in schools as children, warning them to drop their legal cases or potentially face significant costs.

Police in the north are investigating the death of a teenage boy who is understood to have been bullied online.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has teamed up with NUI Galway and the National College of Ireland to study the extent of bullying experienced by its members at work.