Schoolboy fight clubs ‘could lead to suicide rise’

ONE of the country’s top educationalists has warned that the growing number of schoolboy “fight clubs” in Ireland could lead to increased youth suicide here.

Michael Moriarty, general secretary of the Irish Vocational Education Association (IVEA), said some young people of fragile disposition could be so devastated as to take their own lives if deprived of mutual peer respect through severe bullying and intimidation.

He was commenting on a YouTube site which shows videos of Kilkenny teenagers beating each other.