Safety campaign aims to ‘wipe out’ online bullying

The Garda Commissioner, Martin Callinan, has launched a new campaign to “wipe out” online bullying of young people.

The effort comes as a survey shows more than half of all parents regularly checked what their child was doing online.

Mr Callinan was speaking at the launch of the new Garda online strategy, which forms part of the Garda primary schools programme, and the launch of Webwise primary school programme, both to mark Safer Internet Day.