TTHE annual First Cut! Youth Film Festival in Youghal celebrates the work of Irish filmmakers aged 12-24, writes Ellie O’Bryne

THIRTEEN per cent of 16-19-year-olds in a rural town have contemplated suicide and 8% claim to have committed self-harm.

UP to 2,000 secondary school children are to be surveyed in a Co Cork town on their consumption of drink and drugs.