I don’t know whether it was shock or despair or whether he was hoping something light would lighten the shock and despair, but Damian Martin was somehow trying to introduce a sense of hope after yesterday’s game in Tullamore.

The importance of talking to someone if you are feeling down or have concerns about one of your friends was highlighted at a conference for second-level students aimed at breaking the stigma surrounding suicide.

IT was heart-rending reading your account of Damian Martin’s struggle with suicidal thoughts (News, September 7).

THE anger, sadness, disappointment and heartache that Damian Martin had bottled up for so long finally came to a head one night in early 2008 and he put his foot to the floor of his car, took off his seatbelt and closed his eyes.

ROSCOMMON manager Tommy Carr has surprisingly omitted star forward Frankie Dolan from his team for tomorrow's All-Ireland football qualifier against Dublin at Croke Park.