50 children a year contact Childline while trying to take their own life 

ISPCC receives  some 50 contacts every week in relation to sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Picture: iStock

Some 50 children a year contact Childline while in the process of trying to take their own life.

The shocking statistic comes as the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (ISPCC), which provides Ireland’s only 24/7 listening service for children, issued its Christmas appeal for donations, to help ensure that Childline will be available every day and night through the festive season to help children in crisis.