A mental health watchdog is urging parents of Junior or Leaving Cert children to seek help, as they too, can feel at a loss as stress and nerves mount ahead of next month.

Farm families are invited to attend a series of nine free forest walks in support of the Green Ribbon campaign to raise mental health awareness during May.

Mental health services are at crisis point as staffing shortages are expected to worsen, a psychiatric watchdog has warned.

Children continue to be admitted to adult mental health units because of a shortage of beds in child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).

The new Mental Health Minister Jim Daly has admitted services for children with mental health difficulties are “not good enough” and that he is “not happy with them”.

Young people, singletons, and unskilled workers accounted for some of the highest admission rates to psychiatric units last year, according to a report from the Health Research Board (HRB).

The Inspectorate for Mental Health Services is carrying out a review after it was revealed that 14 people have died by suicide in the past 18 months while under the care of the HSE in Carlow, Kilkenny, and South Tipperary.

The mental health watchdog has demanded a review of the HSE’s care of a depressed Cork father who strangled his two young daughters before killing himself.

DISAPPOINTED with your results? Upset that you won’t have enough points to do the course of your choice?

IT is a sad day for people with disabilities in Ireland.

Jimmy Woulfe, Mid-West Correspondent