More than 3,800 contacts were made to crisis-pregnancy counselling services in Ireland last year, including 36 children under the age of 17 who sought help from two organisations.

Mental health supports and recovery options are just a phone call or a text away.

A LEADING psychiatrist will tell parents how to talk to their teenagers about drink and drugs at a free public meeting tonight.

THE number of people being screened at Cork clinics for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) has almost trebled in the last 10 years.