Children's rights groups are calling for the establishment of a Digital Safety Officer to protect children online.

More work is to be done by schools and gardaí to discourage discrimination against and victimisation of LGBTI+ young people under a new Government strategy.

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Too many students drop out of third-level education because they do not fully understand the course or institution they have applied to, according to the founder of an initiative which aims to tackle the problem.

A new initiative aims to change the way secondary school students think about their future education and career prospects.

John Colgan (Letters, Jul 11) feels strongly about having to subsidise churches in this country by way of the tax breaks they enjoy as registered charities.

THE youth organisation Spunout caused controversy when its website suggested threesomes for teens. Parents and politicians demanded to know why public money was used to promote kinky sex among teens.

ALTHOUGH entirely Irish, not being resident in Ireland means that I can sometimes miss a trick.

WITHIN 24 hours, Health Minister James Reilly had responded to concerns about threesomes in an article on a HSE-funded website — if only every problem in the health service was dealt with so swiftly.

THIS week a controversy flared in the Irish media containing both of the delicious elements you need in a scandal: the alleged waste of public money and kinky sex.

Health Minister James Reilly said today that he believes that discussions about “threesomes” on a State-funded website is not an appropriate use of that cash.

A teen charity funded by the State has hit out at critics who claim it is encouraging young people to spice up relationships by having “threesomes”.

A Fine Gael TD has said she will speak to Health Minister James Reilly about a website which she says gives "very worrying" advice to teenagers about threesomes.

The union representing secondary-school teachers has insisted they are doing everything they can to tackle cyberbullying — but admits the issue is almost impossible to stamp out.

Youth charity SpunOut.ie has issued guidelines to tackle cyber bullying, after the death of 13-year-old Erin Gallagher in Donegal on Saturday night.

RECENTLY I went onto my laptop and opened Facebook after a day at school.

Children in State care are up to five times more likely to suffer from mental health issues than their peers, a leading psychiatrist has claimed.

Four of every five teenagers seen by the country’s biggest independent mental health service have been recent victims of cyber-bullying.

IRELAND is in the grip of a “heroin epidemic”, while alcohol abuse among the young is leading them towards drug use, two youth support organisations warned yesterday.

THE founding member of a coalition of suicide charities, the Action on Suicide Alliance, has pulled out of the organisation claiming it now lacks independence and cannot criticise its state funders.

GRIEVING mother Collette Wolfe still waits at home for the daughter she knows will never return.

Minister for Finance Brian Cowen must provide a minimum of €10m to fund suicide prevention initiatives in the next Budget, a Government Watchdog has claimed.