THOUSANDS of new mums are suffering in silence because their postnatal depression goes untreated, according to a report.

GRIEVING mother and grandmother Peggy Kenneally lived in hope her beautiful daughter, Nollaig Owen, would defeat post-natal depression.

THE chairwoman of the office of Post Natal Depression (PND) Ireland, Madge Fogarty, said she feels like she is “banging her head off a brick wall” when it comes to making the HSE realise the extent and importance of educating pregnant women and counselling them post-natally.