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Dear all, Cork Mental Health Awareness Cycle Our Cork Mental Health Awareness Cycle takes place this coming Saturday, March 7th commencing from Marina Market. Open to all, this peloton-style community event is about raising awareness, breaking stigma, and sending a powerful message: there is no shame in asking for help. Too many people are silently battling mental [...]

Dear all, With recent media coverage highlighting the rise in the use of ketamine and nitrous oxide -“laughing gas”, among young people, and the very real harms associated with both, Cycle Against Suicide is delighted to work once again with Prof. Bobby Smyth from Trinity College Dublin to deliver two important educational webinars for students [...]

Dear all, We would be incredibly grateful if you could share the following with your networks: As part of our UCD PhD research study, parents of children aged 4–12 who experience anxiety are invited to take part in a confidential 1:1 Zoom interview.   The study explores what parents need and prefer when engaging with digital mental health interventions. The interview lasts no [...]

Dear all, To support secondary schools taking part in, 'Schools Go Orange' a free pack is available, to include t-shirts, posters, and balloons to help create visibility, encourage participation, and generate a sense of shared purpose across the school community. 'Schools Go Orange', a one-day, whole-school mental health awareness initiative designed to support wellbeing across [...]

Dear all, Registrations are now open for our Mental Health Awareness Cycles running throughout 2026: Cork Awareness Cycle - Saturday, March 7thGalway Awareness Cycle - Saturday, April 18thNorthern Ireland Mental Health Awareness Cycle - Saturday, May 16thN2: End to End Portugal Challenge (fundraiser) May 24th to May 31stSolstice Cycle, Wicklow - Details TBCKing of the [...]

Dear all, As this year draws to a close, we want to pause and say Thank You. To every supporter, volunteer, partner, and friend of Cycle Against Suicide, your belief in our mission has made a real and lasting difference. Because of you, important conversations are opening minds and breaking down stigma, creating space for [...]

Dear all, In the final session this term of our E.N.A.B.L.E.  series with the Child and Adolsecent Psychiatry Department of University College Dublin (UCD), Geraldine Brosnan discusses - Hidden Strengths: Speech, Language and Specific Learning Differences. Geraldine introduces the wide spectrum of speech, language, and communication needs (SLCN) as well as dyslexia and other specific [...]

Continuing our webinar series E.N.A.B.L.E - Exploring Neurodiversity and Building Learning Environments with the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Department, University College Dublin, Dr. Dorothy Armstrong discusses the topic of Dyspraxia/DCD. This insightful resource on Developmental Coordination Disorder, explores what DCD is, how it affects daily life, emotional wellbeing, peer relationships, classroom learning, and why early [...]

Receiving news about the death of a loved one is often one of the most distressing experiences a person can face. The way this information is communicated can profoundly influence how individuals and families begin to process their grief and how they cope over time. For organisations and personnel that must notify next of kin [...]

Dear All Thank you so much for taking part in our upcoming 'Win a Shed' Raffle. We are immensely grateful for your support without which we could not continue our work in mental health awareness and suicide prevention across families, schools, communities, workplaces, and now increasingly, within rural Ireland. This raffle has opened an important [...]