Helplines
If you have been affected by issues raised in an article on Independent.ie, see below for helplines and support services that are available:
Alcoholics Anonymous
Phone: 01 842 0700
Alzheimer Association of Ireland
Freephone: 1800 34 13 41
Aware
Freephone: 1800 80 48 48
BeLonGTo (for LGBT young people)
Phone: 1890 92 95 39
BodyWhys
Phone: 1890 20 04 44
Email: alex@bodywhys.ie
Childline
Freephone: 1800 66 66 66Text: 50101Live Chat: Click Here
Money Advice and Budgeting Services (MABS)
Phone: 0761 07 20 00Email: helpline@mabs.ie
MyOptions (crisis pregnancy)
Freephone: 1800 82 80 10
Text: LIST to 50444 for a free list of counselling services for a crisis pregnancy
Pieta House
Freephone: 1800 24 72 47
Rape Crisis Centre
Freephone: 1800 77 88 88
Samaritans
Freephone: 116 123
Email: jo@samaritans.ie
Threshold (national housing charity)
Freephone: 1800 45 44 54
Email: advice@threshold.ie
Men’s Aid Ireland
National Confidential Helpline: 01 554 3811
Women’s Aid
National Freephone Helpline: 1800 341 900
