Bressie’s Christmas: ‘Once someone suggested having duck. It was never mentioned again’
Niall Breslin, musician, podcaster and mental health advocate, talks turkey about Christmas
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Bressie on his Army dad: ‘I remember him being picked up to go overseas and you wouldn’t see him for a year. I remember the fear of it’
Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin is co-founder of Lust for Life, a PhD student, musician and host of Classical Wind Down on BBC Radio 3
The Guide: Jazzy, Kormac, Paco Peña and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
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Bressie aiming to ‘honour’ 1,300 unmarked graves at psychiatric hospital
Project under way to build memorial garden and to restore graves at St Loman’s Hospital in Mullingar
Blindboy, Naoise Dolan, Bressie, Ailbhe Smyth and more on what’s giving them hope for the year ahead
It’s hard to feel hopeful about the world right now, but these writers, broadcasters, entertainers, entrepreneurs, activists and conservationists are reaching for the light
Niall Breslin’s Where Is My Mind? has changed my mind about wellness podcasts
Podcast review: Bressie chooses his guests carefully, and often their insight is enough to make you question accepted thinking
Bressie: ‘I was quite an aggressive person, because I was repressing so much’
The singer, podcaster and children’s book author has found a new contentment. But getting there hasn’t been easy
The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’
Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art
Matt Williams: I'm ashamed I missed warning signs that Bressie needed my help
Likes of my former Leinster backrower and Keith Earls can be an inspiration to many
Roadmap for live events sector to be produced by end of month, says Coveney
Minister acknowledges ‘extraordinarily stressful’ time for performers as anger grows
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
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Mental health, children and the power of reading
New genre of children’s books gives mental health an accessible platform
Philip Reid: Hard to find the sense in closing golf clubs
Sport had demonstrated that it could be played safely and in a socially distanced way
Bressie: How to teach kids to process life’s negative emotions
The key is to enable them to express it and not repress it, writes Niall Breslin
Bressie: ‘I’d say, “Don’t cry,” but then I’d go upstairs and be upset’
Bressie has written a book for children with the message that it’s okay to feel sad
Probe: The scientific equivalent of Culture Night comes to TCD
Analyse your digital footprint, visit the Long Room and eat a crowdsourced meal
Irish people cooking just five meals a week at home
Child portions are too big, breakfast is in, and we still love a Sunday roast, report reveals
The fitness fallacy: You can’t outrun a mental-health problem
Some people use extreme exercise to mask mental health issues, says campaigner Niall Breslin
‘The cancer is not my enemy’: A mindful healing
‘I have managed to remain optimistic and simply focus on one day at a time’
Zeminar: a forum focused on wellbeing of 15-20 year olds
‘Forget about gyms and diets if you’re not starting with your brain,’ says Bressie
Bressie: ‘Sobbing uncontrollably is liberating ... and so is admitting you are vulnerable’
How to be a Man: Patrick Freyne talked to Niall Breslin (Bressie) about masculinity, crying and the pressure
How the music industry came out of the closet on mental health
Music stars are helping move the conversation forward by publicly dealing with their demons and coming clean about depression, anxiety and addiction
Have you lost yourself in your phone?
In Augsburg there are traffic lights in the pavement for people who are absorbed in their phones
Take two with Roz Purcell ...for bite-sized exercise, eating and mindful moments
Recipes from Purcell, exercises from Karl Henry and mindfullness from Suzanne Donohue
Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin on anxiety and depression in college
Musician and mental health campaigner urges students to take off their masks and "be who you want to be"
Niall Breslin tells of great epidemic unhinging mental health
Oireachtas group hears of mounting expectations and pressure on young generation
Body image: ‘It’s all a trap to keep us in our place and to slow us down’
Attacking a woman’s appearance is part of violence against women, FemFest hears
Anne Enright’s The Green Road wins top prize at Irish Book Awards
Joe Duffy, Sara Baume, Jim McGuinness, Louise O’Neill, Donal Ryan, Sinéad Gleeson and Niall Breslin among winners at Bord Gáis Energy Irish Book Awards 2015
Homeless choir series hits top note for RTÉ Global
‘The High Hopes Choir’ and ‘Rachel Allen’s Coastal Cooking’ sold to UKTV
Róisín Meets . . . Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin
Musician and former rugby player speaks about new book on living with depression
Bressie: ‘I cultivated a deeply negative pit of existence’
In an extract from his memoir about living with depression and anxiety, Niall Breslin recounts an incident of self-harm that was the beginning of the end of his rugby career
Don’t forget the real athletes as ‘reality athletics’ takes over
With the race for fitness ever-dominant real athletes are being overlooked
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