Call to penalise websites that fail to curb bullying

SEVERE penalties should be imposed on websites which have failed to stop their pages being used by young people to bully their peers, guidance counsellors said yesterday.

The call to the Government to introduce fines came from Institute of Guidance Counsellors president Frank Mulvihill.

He warned cyber-bullying on social networking sites was a modern social evil and the regular occurrence of students reporting bullying on the internet was becoming intolerable.