Downs teammate Mitchell pays tribute to Luke Loughlin's stunning turnaround

The turnaround since 2021 has been remarkable because Loughlin, 27, will shortly wrap up surely his greatest season yet as a GAA player.

ROLE-MODEL: The Downs’ Luke Loughlin. Pic: ©INPHO/James Crombie

A few days after winning the Tailteann Cup final with Westmeath in July, Luke Loughlin opened up to RTÉ Radio about his 10-year battle with addiction.

The corner-forward revealed that, a year earlier, he'd been 'in a very bad place, and I had to come to terms with an addiction to alcohol and drugs'.