Aisling Thompson: You could have held a gun to my head and I wouldn’t have flinched

Cork camogie star Ashling Thompson has spoken candidly about how difficult life was for her family as she battled depression.

In her Laochra Gael programme, to be aired on TG4 tonight, the Milford midfielder recalls how she struggled mentally after a serious car accident outside her home in 2009.

As she rehabbed from back and neck injuries, she became a tearaway. “When sport was no longer an option and I wasn’t the player and athlete that I used to be, then I started to crave that attention from a different light.