'She was 20 minutes from death' - Teenager goes to UK to escape four years of online bullying

Her mother said: "She has been forced from her home and country because of bullies." File picture: Pexels

A distraught mother has told how her teenage daughter has had to go to the UK after she tried to take her own life to escape online bullying.

The mother-of-three revealed her heartache after she dropped her 16-year-old daughter at the ferry on Thursday after four years of constant bullying from a group of girls at her post-primary school in Drogheda, Co. Louth.