Some schools are shying away from inviting mental health professionals to talk to their pupils about suicide because of a fear that talking about it will increase the risk.

I AM strongly in favour of the HPAT aptitude tests for medicine, law and engineering. I qualified for medicine in my teens and dropped out after a costly and frustrating year at UCC, along with several equally unsuitable students.

I WISH to congratulate the Cork Midsummer Festival team on the highly entertaining AIB street performance world championship in Fitzgerald Park last Saturday.

I WAS given the book ‘Benedictus’ by the philosopher/poet John O’Donohue for Christmas.