School bullying adds to suicidal tendencies in teenagers, warns expert

THE fall-out from bullying in schools is causing an increasing number of young people to self-harm and have suicidal tendencies, a psychologist has warned.

Fermoy-based psychologist Patrick Maher, who has been working as a councillor for about 20 years, said he is seeing a marked rise in the number of young people requiring counselling due to being bullied at school.

He said teenagers often felt suicide was the only way out. From his experience, Mr Maher said schools were not doing anything to tackle the issue.