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The Donegal Rose won praise for speaking out about mental health on stage tonight
THE DONEGAL ROSE Amy Callaghan may have stunned us all with her hoop swinging, but it wasn’t her talent that people are praising her for.
The 22-year-old from Letterkenny used her time on stage to talk to Dáithí about her previous struggles with anxiety and how she eventually made the move to speak to someone about it.
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In her Rose blurb, she explained that she’s a huge advocate for mental health, and fundraises for Jigsaw, a mental health organisation for the youth of Donegal and Pieta House Letterkenny, which offers vital suicide and bereavement counselling.
Her comments were extremely welcome among viewers
People applauded her for using the platform to normalise speaking about mental health
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