Book review: Memoirs describe same mental health battle, but oceans apart
Tina Neylon looks at two similar but also very different contributions to the discourse on mental health and depression one a memoir by a Dublin footballer, the other by a young man from Novia Scotia in Canada
Both memoirs are vivid accounts of the challenges faced by two young men to their mental health and their roads to recovery.
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Tina Neylon
THESE two books have a lot in common, although their authors have very different backgrounds and live on opposite sides of the Atlantic one in Dublin, the other in Canada.
‘Essential Conversations’: IACP and Blindboy Boatclub host free mental health conference this week
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The Irish Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) will host ‘Essential Conversations with IACP’ this Friday, a free virtual conference with podcaster, and author Blindboy Boatclub as MC and Deborah Frances-White of The Guilty Feminist as Keynote speaker.
The IACP is the largest and longest-standing Counselling and Psychotherapy Association in Ireland. The conference, which marks the organisation’s 40 years in operation, will highlight the importance of speaking about mental health and wellbeing.
Research from IACP shows that one in three adults in Ireland feel that the pandemic and related restrictions has had a substantial impact on exacerbating stress and tension, with increasing numbers indicating recent experience of depression (11% of all adults), loneliness or isolation (16% of all adults). This conference will examine a range of issu
It was on the eve of St Patrick s Day 2020, that the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson first announced new measures aimed at avoiding gatherings in crowded places, such as pubs, nightclubs and theatres.
The huge annual parade through London, which traditionally attracts up to 50,000 people, had already been cancelled due to Covid-19 health advice.
With few people yet familiar with the online world of Zoom, and with little time to organise any last-minute virtual events, the day was passed by many of the Irish in Britain and abroad, sitting at home for the first time. It was a very strange state of affairs. Basically everyone’s plans were cancelled, says Ruairí Cullen, policy officer with Irish in Britain, a charity supporting a wide network of Irish organisations across Britain.
Emmet Lyons, CNN • Published 14th March 2021
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(CNN) Ireland. Close your eyes and picture what you think of when you envision the Emerald Isle. The green. The natural beauty. That distinctive accent. But above all, Ireland is forever associated with its famed hospitality the warmth of its people and its pubs.
It s a country that prides itself on the slogan Céad Míle Fáilte, literally meaning a Hundred Thousand Welcomes. Millions of visitors are welcomed into the country s drinking establishments for a pint every year.
But in a time of a third wave of Covid and a prolonged Iockdown in the country, the pandemic has brought the Irish hospitality sector, and in particular, the pub industry, to its knees. Although each bar faces a different set of circumstances and challenges, one thing is very clear. Ireland s iconic watering holes face a deeply uncertain future.
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