The ISPCC has urged parents to talk to their children about their online activity after research highlighted the vital role they play in protecting minors from sexual predators.

Only half of parents check on a weekly basis what their child is doing on the internet, despite widespread concerns that their children are involved in cyber-bullying.

The principal of a Limerick secondary school at the centre of a cyberbullying probe has called on the Data Protection Commissioner to help investigate after Facebook said it could not help.

BULLYING is a growing problem in our schools.