As a result the charity is launching its Resilience Academy to protect people from suicide and self harm.

Phone helpline charity the Samaritans has warned that inequality is driving people to suicide.

Pieta House has revealed it has experienced a 165% increase in the number of young people, aged under 18, attending its services over the past five years due to self-harm.

Larry Cummins went to Farran to catch a gang of fundraisers rowing and running in the local gym for a great cause; Pieta House.

A new report has found that young people with the highest risk for repeated self-harm were 15 to 19-year-old females and males in their early 20s, resulting in calls for risk assessments for anyone presenting at emergency departments with self-harm injuries.

As the number of Irish children seeking medical help over gender identity rises nine-fold, support groups and families say children’s distress is being exacerbated by the lack of a treatment framework here.

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When psychologist Joan Freeman founded Pieta House, the national centre for the prevention of self-harm or suicide, it was to address a taboo subject that was little discussed and rarely understood.

Many lives will be lost unnecessarily to suicide and many others will self-harm due to the Government’s slow reaction to addressing the problem of alcohol abuse in Ireland, a leading suicide expert has warned.

As many as 10% of single vehicle road collisions could be suicide attempts, it has been claimed.