Teenage girls suffering from an ‘always-on’ social media landscape

The NHS says 20% of girls are self-harming, three times as many as a decade ago, writes Victoria White

I was on my way into RTÉ to do an interview on Today with Sean O’Rourke on Tuesday when Mandy Throwbridge’s interview about the death by suicide of her 16-year-old daughter came on the radio.

I sat in the RTÉ car park listening to the end even at the risk of missing my own slot on the same show.