Suicidal dark days for Slane owner Henry Mountcharles

Henry Mountcharles has revealed that he became severely depressed and felt suicidal while receiving chemotherapy for lung cancer last year.

However, he is optimistic about medical test results due today and is looking forward “with giddy excitement” to a series of concerts in May at his ancestral home of Slane Castle.

The 63-year-old grandfather was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2013, and had the lower lobe of his right lung removed, followed by three and a half months of chemotherapy and six weeks of radiation.