The National Suicide Research Foundation is not a service-provider.
If you are seeking help for yourself or someone else, please contact one of the services listed below, or contact your GP.
In an emergency situation, please call 999 or 112, or go to your nearest Emergency Department.
If you are based outside of Ireland, please visit Crisis Centres & Helplines – IASP for international contact information.
Your Mental Health
For information on mental health supports and services closest to you.
Freephone: 1800 111 888
Visit: Mental health – HSE.ie
Samaritans
Samaritans offer listening and support in times of need.
Freephone: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.ie
Visit: Samaritans Ireland
Jigsaw
Jigsaw is a national centre that provides free therapy and online chat to young people aged 12-25.
Find your local Jigsaw: Jigsaw services in your area
Online support: Advice and support for young people
Childline
Listening and support for children and young people up to the age of 18.
Freephone: 1800 66 66 66
Free text: TALK to 50101
Live messenger is available on the website –> Click here to access
Visit: Home – Childline
Pieta
Pieta provides free therapy to those engaging in self-harm, with suicidal ideation, or bereaved by suicide.
Tel: 1800 247 247
Email: mary@pieta.ie
Text: HELP to 51444 (standard text rates apply)
‘Text About It’
A free 24/7 text service providing everything from a calming chat to immediate support for people going through a mental health or emotional crisis – big or small.
Free text: HELLO to 50808 (WhatsApp or SMS)
Visit: Text About It
SpunOut.ie
Ireland’s youth information website created by young people, for young people.
HUGG
HUGG provides peer-support groups for those who have experienced suicide bereavement – led by people who have themselves lost a loved one to suicide.
Visit: HUGG website
Psychological Society of Ireland
The Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) have an online directory of Chartered Psychologists.
It is possible to search their online directory by location to find a Chartered Psychologist closest to you.
National Office for Suicide Prevention
The role of the HSE’s National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) is to effectively support, inform, monitor and co-ordinate the implementation of Connecting for Life.
Visit: National Office for Suicide Prevention – HSE.ie
Visit: Connecting for Life – HSE.ie for information on the strategy and its progress.
