Dane Galligan News Today

A Q&A with Dr Lorcan Martin, Consultant Specialist in General Adult Psychiatry. IN Ireland, it is estimated that approximately 150,000 people per year are…

In Ireland, it is estimated that approximately 150,000 people per year are living with severe depression.‘Talking Depression’, acampaign by Janssen Sciences Ireland UC, encourages people living with severe depression to take the first step towards finding the right support by having an open and honest conversation with someone they trust.

Dane Galligan was 24 before he first told someone about the severe depression he had been suffering from for over 10 years. “I was quite young when I started realising I was really frustrated with how I was feeling. It would have gradually built over the years, but from a young age, I remember getting quite low moods. A lot of anger,” he says.

Television: ‘Things have got too dangerous,’ Davy Fitzgerald says as the group prepare to scale an Icelandic volcano. ‘We have to get to the jeep’

One of the mentors on Davy Fitzgerald’s RTÉ show Davy’s Toughest Team will open up about his own mental health struggles on tonight’s finale.

The Clare hurling legend on the return of his Toughest Team, why it’s good to talk – and why there was never any doubt over the future of Ireland’s Fittest Family

We didnt play hurling as kids in the Dublin flats where I come from. Too many concrete surfaces, not enough grass. Common sense tells you that way lies broken wrists. Besides, we were dyed-in-the-wool Association Football boys. You could write everything I know about hurling on a sliotar. In fact, just typing "sliotar" uses up about 75 percent of my hurling expertise already. But I do know who Davy Fitzgerald is, if only because I now live in Wexford, where theres plenty of grass but sometimes ...