A life of depression and insecurity

LYNN GIBBS first felt troubled at the age of 12 when she couldn’t settle at boarding school and had to be prescribed sleeping tablets.

But she got over her upset and by the time she was in second year, everything was going smoothly. So smoothly in fact that she secured a place in Trinity College in Dublin to study medicine.

It was a return to the city where she was born on Christmas Eve 1960 and where she lived for a year with her family before they moved to Tipperary.