2023 Mental Health Media
Awards Archive

‘It's very hard to see to a loved one, with cuffs on, in prison, because there's nowhere else for him to go’, Noel Baker for the Irish Examiner  

Siblings forgotten by mental health services for up to six years, Shane Phelan for the Irish Independent  

How tech addiction is hitting Ireland with kids glued to PlayStation and ‘doomscrolling’ for hours, Mary Cate Smith for The Sunday Times  

Ciara Mangan Exclusive interview, Catherine Fegan for the Irish Independent  

The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, Malachy Clerkin for The Irish Times

Wexford campaigner says it’s ‘too late’ for HSE CAMHS apology – ‘Young lives have been destroyed, Pádraig Byrne for Wexford People  

Reaching out to other bereaved dads in Cork, Chris Dunne for The Echo  

Navigating Life with Dementia, Jacqueline Hogge for The Tuam Herald  

‘I didn’t think I’d make it to my 15th birthday but now I am studying law’, Richard Canny for Roscommon Herald  

Simon reaching out to Cork's Homeless, Donal O'Keeffe for The Echo

The Invisible Struggle of Borderline Personality Disorder, Niamh Devereux for Irish Country Magazine  

The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, Malachy Clerkin for The Irish Times  

Tusla 'not fit for purpose' as parents plead for help, Ann Murphy for the Irish Examiner  

Birth trauma: ‘I spent nine months terrified, anxious and a shell of the person I once was, Geraldine Walsh for The Irish Times Magazine  

Blind Justice: How prison is leaving Travellers isolated and traumatised, Michelle Hennessey for The Journal and Noteworthy.ie

Ireland's Unregulated Psychologists, RTE Investigates, RTE One

Blackrock Boys, RTE Documentary on One, RTE Radio One

Davy's Toughest Team: Episode 1, Animo TV, RTE One

Inside the Hospice - Episode 3, Flawless Films, Virgin Media Television

Growing Up in Direct Provision, Scratch Films, RTE One

Kerry CAMHS: A Scandal Deepens, Barry Lenihan for RTÉ Radio 1  

We aren't Made of Stone, The Joe Finnegan Show for Shannonside Northern Sound FM  

Dealing with Miscarriage, Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan for Newstalk  

Councillor Liam Brazil and his 'Suicide or Survive' Cycle, Kieran Foley for WLR FM  

Living with Psychosis, Lunchtime Live with Andrea Gilligan for Newstalk

When Horse Run, Virgin Media TV/Sharp Shorts  

‘I’d raze it to the ground and start again’ - mothers speak out on Camhs failures, Bernice Harrison for The Irish Times ‘In the News’ Podcast  

Redacted Lives: Episode 1, The Journal  

The River Angels: Limerick’s suicide prevention river patrol groups, Adam Leahy for Limerick Post Podcast  

In the Shadows, Dean Kavanagh

The ‘Hidden Epidemic’, Article by Rose Slocock, Trinity College Dublin  

Is it me or my OCD?, Documentary by Valerie McHugh, University of Galway

So much Fatter, Akshita Hunka for TN2 Magazine, Trinity College Dublin

Demystifying PMDD, Ella Sloane for Trinity News, Trinity College Dublin

Unbroken: A year in the life, Documentary by Alla Pavlutska, Technology University Dublin

Geraldine and Remond Murphy for The life and death of Red Óg Murphy, featured in The Irish Times  

Ciara Mangan for Ciara Mangan on holding rapist to account, featured in the Irish Independent  

Bob McQuaid for ‘The Viagra was handed to me as though it were a live bomb’ featured in The Journal  

Mark and David Ryan for Blackrock Boys, featured on RTÉ Radio 1 and podcast  

Laura Guckian, for Navigating postnatal depression, anxiety & inpatient hospital care, featured on Unspoken Podcast

The Invisible Struggle of Borderline Personality Disorder, Irish Country Magazine   

The Late Late Show: PJ Gallagher, RTÉ One  

Lunchtime Live: Psychosis, Newstalk  

The Life and Death of Red Óg Murphy, The Irish Times  

Living with anxiety: Clodagh shares her unspoken, Unspoken Podcast

Shane Phelan, Irish Independent