Victims of cyberbullying can become consumed by spiralling negative thoughts and can feel there is "no escape" from it, according to new research based on the views of young people here.

New research has found that parents of teenagers who self-harm or have suicidal ideation can deal better with associated stress by partaking in a 16-week course that includes mindfulness.

The National Suicide Research Foundation’s 2018 Annual Report of the National Self-Harm Registry Ireland shows a 6% rise in the rate of individuals presenting to hospital as a result of self-harm last year, compared with the rate in 2017 — and 12% higher than the rate in 2007.

New research indicates that intentional drug overdose is the most common method used in a large number of "concerning" presentations at hospitals involving people who are homeless.

The rate of self-harming among children and young people soared 22% over a 10-year period to the end of 2016.

Family members bereaved by suicide have elevated levels of stress, depression, and anxiety and are at increased risk of poorer physical health, according to new research.

Homeless people are 30 times more likely to self-harm than those living in fixed residences, according to a new study analysing five years of hospital presentations.

A new school of public health that will seek to improve the health of the nation has been launched by University College Cork (UCC).

Even though murder-suicide remains incredibly rare, there are steps that can be taken to help mitigate the causes, argues Brendan Kelly.

The Irish Examiner has won Headline’s Overall Media Award for responsible coverage of mental health and suicide-related issues in Ireland.

IT is not very often that this newspaper chooses to make public awards or commendations it receives for its journalists’ work.

Public holidays are the busiest times for self-harm emergencies, with St Patrick’s Day the worst of all, according to the first study of its type in Ireland.

Alcohol or drugs have been detected in eight out of 10 suicides examined in a study of 121 cases in Cork over a six-year period.

The body of a father of three who murdered his wife and sons before killing himself has been exhumed from the family grave.

One in seven teenagers attending schools in Cork and Kerry have significant symptoms of depression, a major study reveals.

The number of Irish men self-harming has jumped by 15% in the last 10 years with the rates particularly high among young people.

A new report has found that young people with the highest risk for repeated self-harm were 15 to 19-year-old females and males in their early 20s, resulting in calls for risk assessments for anyone presenting at emergency departments with self-harm injuries.

The HSE and childrens’ charity Barnardos are providing supports for the family and school friends of an 11-year-old boy who died by suspected suicide in Cork City at the weekend.

The HSE and childrens’ charity Barnardos are providing supports to the family and school friends of an 11-year-old boy who died by suspected suicide in Cork city at the weekend.

The HSE has confirmed it is responding to an “emerging suicide cluster” in Cork City.

Mental health campaigner Conor Cusack has called for the establishment of a 24/7 “emotional wellbeing centre” in response to the carnage caused by the suicide crisis sweeping Cork.

The suicide rate of people aged under 25 is “of significant concern”, according to the National Office for Suicide Prevention.

Ground-breaking research by the Cork-based National Suicide Research Foundation into deaths during the recession has found that the “extreme measures” by the Government during the recession contributed to the rise in suicides among vulnerable people.

A national taskforce needs to be set up to look at the prescribing of barbiturates as they continue to be used as the most common type of intentional overdose, a conference on suicidology was told.

The loss of five members of the same family in a suspected murder-suicide is tragedy beyond comprehension, funeral mourners have been told.

More than 11,000 cases of self-harm presented at hospitals in Ireland in 2014.

The Health Research Board has invested €5.7m in research teams whose findings will inform decision-making in the key areas of suicide prevention, safe prescribing, dementia care, and team leadership in the health services.

Five years after a loved one takes their own life, more than a third of family members still feel depressed and anxious about their loss, while a quarter admit to having suicidal thoughts, according to new research.

HOLLYWOOD actor Jeremy Irons is to unveil a memorial today in Waterville, Co Kerry, to those who took their own lives. Located in the town’s community gardens, its purpose is to raise awareness of the extent of suicide in Ireland and in rural areas, in particular. 

GREECE is being told to follow Ireland’s crisis solution of harsh austerity and acceptance of bank-and-bailout debt. This narrative conveniently ignores that the Irish ‘recovery’ has been built on major human rights violations and the undermining of long-term social and economic development.