Donoghue’s message clicked: Nobody is untouchable

Over the last while, I’ve been listening to Alan O’Mara’s excellent podcast ‘Real Talks’.

The concept was initially inspired by O’Mara’s battle with depression, and many of his interview subjects have openly spoken about the various battles they’ve routinely fought, or the difficult circumstances they’ve had to overcome, in their daily lives.

It’s mostly a chat about life lessons, leadership, resilience and purpose and one of the best interviews O’Mara conducted was with the former Kildare player, Dermot Earley Junior. His late father, Dermot, was one of the greatest footballers never to win an All-Ireland, and in discussing how he coped with his loss, Dermot Jnr gave a revealing insight into his father’s thinking.