# awareness - Wednesday 17 November, 2021
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Former Dublin minor hurler Cormac Ryan will appear in a gripping documentary about eating disorders among men this week.
# awareness - Sunday 10 October, 2021
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Former Galway hurler Niall Donohue took his own life in 2013.
# awareness - Wednesday 29 September, 2021
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Michael Fennelly talks to The42 about the challenges of living with Ankylosing Spondylitis.
# awareness - Tuesday 16 July, 2019
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There were approximately 270 calls every week to the National 24-Hour Freephone Helpline in 2018.
# awareness - Tuesday 2 October, 2018
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National Breastfeeding Week was launched yesterday.
# awareness - Tuesday 4 September, 2018
# Blood Cancer Awareness
# Blood Cancer Awareness
More than 2,000 people a year across Ireland are diagnosed with a form of blood cancer.
# awareness - Sunday 22 July, 2018
# RunningForJosie
# RunningForJosie
“Counselling was the most important intervention in my life and that’s not to be dramatic, that’s just being honest.”
# awareness - Tuesday 1 May, 2018
# World Asthma Day
# World Asthma Day
Asthma kills one person every week in Ireland but Cat Kennedy hasn’t let the condition slow her down.
# awareness - Sunday 11 February, 2018
# Suicide
# Suicide
Sinn Féin’s Sean Crowe says access to mental health care is ‘missing or thin on the ground’ in his constituency.
# awareness - Wednesday 22 November, 2017
# ALONE
# ALONE
Alone, a charity for older people, has launched its Christmas campaign – No one should be alone this Christmas.
# awareness - Sunday 13 August, 2017
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
18-year-old Jessica Clohisey is set to host the third annual Sail Against Suicide event in Dublin.
# awareness - Saturday 12 August, 2017
# The Long Walk Home
# The Long Walk Home
Eamonn Donnelly and his friend Sepp Tieber are currently making their way across England.
# awareness - Tuesday 16 May, 2017
# Don't Ignore The Red
# Don't Ignore The Red
Packie Bonner wants more people to recognise the symptoms of bladder cancer.
# awareness - Saturday 6 May, 2017
# Pieta House
# Pieta House
The symbolic walk into the light is aimed at encouraging people to talk about suicide and mental health issues.
# awareness - Monday 24 April, 2017
# Tackle Meningitis
# Tackle Meningitis
Dawson and Rory Best are teaming up to raise awareness about the condition.
# awareness - Saturday 11 February, 2017
# EPILEPSY DAY
# EPILEPSY DAY
Monday is International Epilepsy Day. Ailbhe Benson (27) reveals her personal journey with the condition that affects over 37,000 people in Ireland.
# awareness - Tuesday 7 February, 2017
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A conference will be held next month to raise awareness of how to tackle self-harm.
# awareness - Saturday 31 December, 2016
# What Would You Do
# What Would You Do
The National Women’s Council has criticised the focus on the domestic violence campaign being on the bystander.
# awareness - Thursday 22 December, 2016
# Opinion
# Opinion
Michelle Ross speaks openly about what she and her family have gone through since her brother died by suicide last year.
# awareness - Friday 21 October, 2016
# Sponsored By HSE
# Sponsored By HSE
Anyone can get dementia, but everyone can help by understanding more.
# awareness - Friday 7 October, 2016
# Trigeminal Neuralgia
# Trigeminal Neuralgia
It is estimated to affect 1 in 20,000 people, but is often misdiagnosed as a migraine, toothache or a joint condition.
# awareness - Tuesday 13 September, 2016
# Workplace Accidents
# Workplace Accidents
Construction Safety Week is trying to get people to be safer in the workplace.
# awareness - Wednesday 15 June, 2016
# Snowblow
# Snowblow
A new campaign is being launched this morning which aims to highlight the issue for Irish AIDS Day.
# Financial Abuse
# Financial Abuse
A new campaign aims to highlight the financial abuse of the elderly.
# awareness - Wednesday 25 May, 2016
# World MS Day
# World MS Day
Naomi Donaldson and her little sister were diagnosed with MS within a year of each other. She describes how they’ve coped with it.
# awareness - Sunday 22 May, 2016
# Gluten-free Life
# Gluten-free Life
We spoke to two people whose lives changed as a result of their diagnosis.
# awareness - Friday 29 April, 2016
# Know Thy Nuts
# Know Thy Nuts
GAA players Jason Hughes, Emlyn Mulligan, Lee Chin and Killian Clarke are ‘copping a feel’ to raise awareness of testicular cancer.
# awareness - Sunday 24 April, 2016
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Judy Fitzgerald said her grief inspired her to help raise awareness of suicide in Ireland.
# awareness - Friday 1 April, 2016
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The initiative is aimed at increasing awareness levels around drugs.
# awareness - Thursday 31 March, 2016
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The new service will soon be available in Dublin’s Pantibar.
# awareness - Thursday 24 March, 2016
# Alex Ryan
# Alex Ryan
The sister of a teenager who died after taking a synthetic drug has spoken publicly for the first time.
# awareness - Monday 23 November, 2015
# Know Your Status
# Know Your Status
To date in 2015, 411 new HIV infections have been detected in Ireland – an increase on last year.
# awareness - Saturday 14 November, 2015
# Save Your Breath
# Save Your Breath
“My first instinct was ‘Oh my god, I’m going to die.’”
# awareness - Saturday 31 October, 2015
# Full Circle
# Full Circle
“The volunteers were so great that I always had it in my head that I wanted to help out, I wanted to put something back.”
# awareness - Wednesday 7 October, 2015
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Jamie Heaslip and David Wallace will be joining the Munster star in attempting to travel from Aviva Stadium to Thomond Park while in a wheelchair.
# awareness - Monday 5 October, 2015
# Transgender
# Transgender
She got on very, very well indeed. Kellie, formerly boxing promoter Frank, fully transitioned to being a woman last year.
# awareness - Saturday 26 September, 2015
# Dramatic Change
# Dramatic Change
A study found that activity on ‘SuicideWatch’ changed dramatically in the weeks after celebrity suicides.
# awareness - Tuesday 15 September, 2015
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18 year old Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson succumbed to fumes while on a trip at a family member’s apartment in 2010.
# awareness - Monday 7 September, 2015
# Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
# Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
One in every 3,500 boys are affected by Caleb’s condition.
# awareness - Tuesday 1 September, 2015
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Their mother died of breast cancer six weeks after diagnosis, at the age of 44.