A suicide prevention charity, which provides free counselling services to vulnerable young people, has been forced to cut its allocation of counselling hours in half due to a lack of funds.

THE impact suicide can have, especially on the parents and extended family of a young person who commits suicide, can hardly be imagined.

The grieving mother of a 15-year-old suicide victim yesterday said her heart turned to stone the day her son took his own life last June.

The grieving mother of a Junior Certificate student who took his own life last June yesterday asked parents to be extra vigilant over the mental health of their teenage children.