Updated 9.55 am
AN ESTIMATED 200,000 people took part in this morning’s Pieta House Darkness into Light walk.
This is the tenth year of the event which began with just 400 people walking in Phoenix Park in 2008.
The 5km walk took place at 180 venues around the country with organisers noting that those taking part walked a collective one million kilometres to raise awareness of mental health, self-harm and suicide.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was among the 15,000 people who undertook the walk this morning in Dublin’s Phoenix Park.
Some 500 people die by suicide each year in Ireland and the symbolic walk into the light is aimed at encouraging people to talk about suicide and mental health issues.
Last year over 150,000 people took part at 150 venues across the globe – with locations in parts of the world such as New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, San Francisco and China.
The funds raised go towards supporting Pieta House’s counselling services to those in suicidal crisis, people who engage in self-harm and those bereaved by suicide.
Here are some of the photo’s we’ve received of those of you who took part.
Limerick
Warsaw
- With reporting by Rónán Duffy
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