Rugby stars on mental health: ‘You don’t have to be in crisis to look for help’

Rugby stars are sharing their difficult off-field experiences in a campaign that encourages people to look after their mental well-being. Helen O’Callaghan reports

Breaking his arm wasn’t Cathal Sheridan’s first or worst injury, but it put the Munster Rugby scrum-half into a very dark place.

The 27-year-old Sligo man has freed himself now from the dreary clutches of unprocessed negative emotion — he’s one of the primary faces of the Irish Rugby Union Players’ Association’s new mental wellbeing campaign.