Get help in Ireland

Childline

Call 1800 66 66 66 or chat online at Childline.ie

Ireland’s free, 24-hour national listening service for children and young people up to and including the age of 18, by phone or online chat.

• Run by ISPCC
• When 24 hours a day, every day

Irish Internet Hotline

Report online

Ireland’s hotline for reporting illegal content online, including child sexual abuse material and intimate image abuse.

• Run by Hotline.ie

Samaritans

Call free on 116 123

Someone to listen, whatever you are going through, including thoughts of suicide. Available in Ireland and the UK.

• Run by Samaritans
• When 24 hours a day, 365 days a year

Find a child helpline in your country

A directory of child helplines around the world, listed by country with their contact details. Child helplines are run by organisations in each country to listen to and support children and young people.

• Run by Child Helpline International

Report child sexual abuse material to your national hotline

Explains how to report sexual images or videos of children found online, and links to the hotline for your country. You report the web address, not the files, and you do not need to give your name. INHOPE’s secretariat is not itself a hotline and cannot receive reports.

• Run by INHOPE

Take It Down

A free service that helps remove or stop the online sharing of nude, partially nude or sexually explicit images or videos taken of you before you were 18. It creates a digital fingerprint of the image on your own device, so you do not send the image to anyone, and you can stay anonymous. It works on public or unencrypted platforms that have agreed to take part.

• Run by National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

Find A Helpline

A directory of free, confidential helplines and crisis lines in many countries, searchable by country and by topic, for emotional support and crisis situations including thoughts of suicide.

• Run by ThroughLine