Course to tackle city’s high self-harming rate

As men in Cork have the country’s highest rates of self-harming, a year-long course teaching coping skills is to be offered around the city and county.

Nine mental health patients who took part in the pilot project received certificates from Mental Health Minister Kathleen Lynch at Cork’s City Hall on Friday.

As part of their treatment, they availed of group skills’ training, individual therapy and out-of-hours phone coaching with a therapist to help let go of old patterns of self-destructive behaviour.