Accepting it was okay to feel down was Hannah Looney's starting point in journey out of mental health hole

'I felt I was in a bit of a rut, in a hole, and I kept digging down further and further'

Cork dual star Hannah Looney at the presentation of WGPA third-level scholarships last year.

Hannah Looney is one of the five Cork dual players at the centre of a fixtures storm for the past fortnight.

But the onfield clashes still facing her and her teammates next month is not the starting point for our conversation, rather we rewind to this time 12 months ago when the 23-year-old chemical engineer began to realise something was amiss with herself.