Students rewarded for suicide campaign

A GROUP of Cork students who played a leading role in raising awareness of suicide among young people in their community were last night named as Young Social Innovators of the Year 2011.

Judges commended the group from Mount Mercy College Cork for their project, Divert Your Stride From Suicide. “It was a project that undertook a huge amount of work on a very sensitive issue, culminating in a conference for 600 students,” the judges declared.

One of the 22 students involved in the project, Niamh McCarthy, said none of the group knew much about suicide when they started the project last September.