THIRTEEN per cent of 16-19-year-olds in a rural town have contemplated suicide and 8% claim to have committed self-harm.

UP to 2,000 secondary school children are to be surveyed in a Co Cork town on their consumption of drink and drugs.

THE death of a 19-year-old man from a suspected cocaine overdose and subsequent multiple seizures of narcotics in a rural part of north Cork has accelerated an anti-drug programme in the area.