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In the coming days our television screens are going to be hit with a disturbing but extremely important message about children’s rights.

Childline volunteer Donal Barrett said ‘Top of the morning to ya’ while helping launch the Childline 2011 Pubs Pledge Appeal. Over the past five years pubs in Mayo have raised a staggering €40,843 for Childline.

Childline, Ireland's only 24-hour listening service for children, is urgently looking for volunteers in Mayo.

Childline volunteers in Galway answered 200 calls on Christmas Day, one fifth of the total calls, texts and emails received then from children all over the country.

Childline Galway is holding a fundraising coffee morning at the Grand Salon of the g hotel on Wednesday October 6 from 11am until 1pm.

Of almost 60,000 teenagers across Ireland who received their Leaving Cert results this week, some will be delighted with the results but others may be disappointed and feeling anxious and fearful about the future.

The ISPCC Childline service is urgently seeking volunteers for its service in Mayo.

During 2009, more 9,000 calls were answered by the 25 volunteers and 11 trainees at the Childline office in Castlebar, which was only established in March of that year.

This year Westlife are helping the ISPCC’s Childline service to launch it’s “Who’s Calling” awareness initiative, the aim of which is to highlight the difficulties with which Ireland’s children are contacting the society. Young people are able to contact the service for a wide range of reasons; 63 per cent of calls from children were about their personal life. This can cover a lot of topics such as school, bereavement, and mental health issues. Childline is accessible to all children and young people throughout Mayo and Ireland. The ISPCC’s staff call to various schools throughout the county making as many as possible aware of the service, and indeed the various means of accessing it.

Growing numbers of young people are not sharing their problems with their families but are reaching out to local support services for help instead.