Suicide inquest hears of bullying concerns

Conversations on the Facebook page of a 12-year-old girl who took her own life show that friends had concerns she was being cyberbullied over her self-harming, an inquest heard.

Lara Gibbs-Burns died after she was found in stables at her family home in Grange, Enfield, Co Meath, on November 24, 2012.

She had attended suicide and self-harm crisis centre Pieta House for a number of weeks before her death after telling a counsellor at Maynooth Post-Primary School that she was self-harming. Her mother, Helene Burns, told the inquest the family was unaware of the self-harming until contacted by the school.