Sports stars help kick off health education week

DISCUSSIONS about sex, drugs and suicide will fill the halls of a Cork school this week but they are taking place inside the classroom rather than in quiet whispers.

These are some of the subjects in the programme at Presentation Brothers College Health Promotion Week, in which students and their parents have had a key role in deciding what issues they would like to know more about.

School principal, Michael Hennessy, said the aim was to generate greater levels of awareness of major health issues, with problems around mental and sexual health being common for youngsters these days.