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Pharmacists across Ireland are set to do their part to challenge mental health stigma by taking part in a fundraising cycle
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SO IF you’ve signed up to run the VHI Women’s Mini-Marathon in aid of First Fortnight, a huge thank you!
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MARK O’Halloran is an Irish scriptwriter and actor best known for his award-winning screenplays for the films Adam & Paul and Garage. A native of Ennis, County Clare, we were delighted when Mark dropped by First Fortnight HQ to discuss the theme of mental health
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FIRST Fortnight is delighted to unveil its second podcast of 2015 featuring filmmaker Frank Berry. Frank’s latest film, I Used To Live Here, has just been released in Irish cinemas and last year picked up the Best First Feature Award at the Galway Film Fleadh.
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By Fiona Smith THIS week is Eating Disorders Awareness Week (Feb 23-March 1) and there are events happening across the country from large-scale awareness raising at the DCU Fashion Show in the Helix Theatre to small info stands and public talks at college campuses and hospitals.
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OFTEN, we are asked by media organisations if we have noticed a shift in attitudes to the stigma around mental health matters since First Fortnight began in 2009. Our answer would be that, while a lot of good work has been done, the stigma around talking about mental health matters still exists. Below is a blog from a First Fortnight supporter who has asked to...
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FIRST Fortnight is delighted to unveil its first podcast of 2015 featuring John Kavanagh, Mixed Martial Arts coach and Conor McGregor’s head coach. John sits in with First Fortnight’s JP Swaine and guests Diarmuid Lyng, Wexford hurler, broadcaster and youth facilitator with Soar (soar.ie) and Ruairí McKiernan, Irish social entrepreneur, campaigner and founder of SpunOut.ie, to discuss mental health within a sports context. Listen below and...
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OUR really unique event – Co-Motion, a musical walking experience – takes place in St Stephen’s Green tomorrow (January 4) at 2pm! Hundreds of people are expected to gather, armed with their four-song playlist of “songs that get them through” and we want you to participate! Four steps: 1) Make a playlist of songs that give you a lift when you’re down 2) Put them on a...
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MY Name is Saoirse is the tender coming-of-age play written by and starring Eva O’Connor of the award-winning Sunday’s Child theatre company. It won our First Fortnight Award at the Dublin Fringe for challenges to prejudice on mental health issues, deftly dealing with teen pregnancy and adolescent sexuality. It runs again for three-nights only at First Fortnight 2015 from January 8-10 at Dublin’s Smock Alley...
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By Mark O’Brien @markjsobrien 2014 was a great year for We Cut Corners. The band’s second album, Think Nothing, cropped up on many album of the year lists having been released to wide acclaim last May. They’ve toured all over Ireland and around Europe but the likeable pair’s first gig of 2015 is going to be something really special. The duo, consisting of guitarist and vocalist...
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