Griffin was first rejected by a publisher at age 11. She turned to poetry; her first collection came out in 2011, when she was taking a Masters in Creative Writing.

Schools should incorporate the dangers of so-called sexting into their education programmes and codes of conduct, an expert on online sexual exploitation has said.

The 22-year-old student who was stabbed to death in last weekend's knife attack at his family home in Bray is due to be laid to rest this afternoon.