Inter-county hurlers Niall O'Meara and Conor Whelan have both spoken about how suicide has impacted their lives.
At the age of just 11, Tipperary hurler O'Meara tragically lost his brother Paul. Speaking on TV3's Ireland AM, O'Meara said Paul's death had left a gap in his family which can never be filled.
I actually remember it vividly enough. I'm not going to go into too much detail.
It was just a Saturday night, around the mid-term break. I'll always remember that for that reason. We were off school and you could hear noise downstairs.
Paul was 21 at the time. He was after coming back from a night out, having a few drinks. You wouldn't really be thinking too much of it.
I had a good relationship with him and never thought too much into it. You just wouldn't know, I was too young to know, maybe. Obviously, my parents weren't too sure either. You just don't know.
We were devastated. We ended up moving house, just because we were destroyed after it. It was very difficult for us but we came through it pretty well after it. My mother and father deserve great credit for that, I must say.
During his speech follow Galway's All-Ireland victory last month, captain David Burke mentioned the loss of Niall Donoghue. A former inter-county teammate of Burke's, Donoghue took his own life in 2013 aged just 22.
Conor Whelan is a cousin of Niall Donoghue. He said that prior to his cousin's death, he was unaware regarding depression and how it can impact lives.
Before Niall, I never knew what depression was. Do you people know what depression is? Do they know that if you're not feeling well and feeling down, that is depression? I didn't understand it until I had a personal tragedy.
You're never going to forget but you just learn to live with it. There's a hole left there and it will never be filled. You just learn how to adapt really.
You can watch Conor Whelan and Niall O'Meara speaking on Ireland AM below.
