Niall Breslin - Carrying the hopes of a nation

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

The anorexia will get her first.

[Bandage]

Bressie is playing this smartly. He’s supported Home Sweet Home in quite an understated way. A couple of tweets and the same amount of retweets. It keeps him in “the conversation” but he doesn’t want to piss off the likes of Mazars and other corporates too much either - future workshop and speech bookings could be affected.

[balbec]

Or the paranoia after she sees the photo of her husband ogling Jessica Ennis at the awards the other night.

[myboyblue]

A Monarch is allowed, nae, expected to take a lover. Catherine knows the score.

[balbec]

If he picks Jess he will pick wisely.

[flattythehurdler]

Like a wooden chalice.

[balbec]

Indeed.

[gilgamboa]

The Kieran Shannon Interview: Kevin McManamon gets in tune

[TreatyStones]

Here’s a news story from 2013:

@TreatyStones

Bressie has opened up online about his mental health issues.

In a heartfelt blog post the singer admitted that he has struggled with General Anxiety Order.

He says he first started showing symptoms a few years ago and nearly fell out of his chair when he was diagnosed.

His first panic attack came while filming an episode of the Voice, apparently, which he says understandably wasn’t the ideal place for it.

The former gaelic football and rugby player say he was able to get a hold on the condition by taking up long-distance running.

*The 32 year old hopes that by opening up, he can encourage more people to seek help for mental health problems. *

He said he encourages anyone from the bottom of his heart to speak about it. Get it out there. The more people that do this the less stigma attached to the condition.

If people become cynical and negative towards you, he says they don’t deserve your friendship.

How does this stack up with the claims in the article?

@TreatyStones

Voice star Bressie has revealed being on the hit RTE show left him with crippling anxiety.

The 32-year-old singer said the fame that came with the success of the first series left him having palpitations.

He spoke out on RTE Radio One’s John Murray Show with hopes of encouraging others in the same situation to get help.

Bressie said: “It was relatively recently and I’m quite open about it. It’s something that for too long has been stigmatised in this country. People assume anxiety and stress are the same.

“But anxiety is all-consuming – it takes over your life and it doesn’t pick its victims. Often people will say, ‘But everything is going well,’ but that doesn’t make a difference really.”

Bressie added he first felt the symptoms when he became the hottest new property in Ireland as a coach on The Voice.

He said: “For me it was when the show started I think. I started realising I had lost a bit of my anonymity and it just came on.

“With anxiety there are massive issues with sleeping. You have palpitations in situations especially if you are doing live television.

“And I said to myself, ‘That’s the kind of person I am, I’ve got to learn to control it’.”

Bressie said it was getting back into physical exercise that helped him manage his condition as he had missed it since he gave up his rugby playing to make a go of his first band The Blizzards.

He said: “Other people don’t learn to control it and they take up the wrong way and go down the wrong route with it.

“But that was one of the main reasons I got into the triathlon training. I felt that was a really good thing because I missed that physical challenge I had when I played rugby.

“That’s a big void in my life so I started doing triathlons and it really helped. But then again once I came out and talked about it I started realising that everybody I know is going through this but they are hiding it.

“And I think it is ridiculous that you have to hide something like this.”

Bressie said that although he didn’t take medication, he had been considering it.

And even though he didn’t experience full on panic attacks he could never settle and relax.

He explained: “I went to the point where I was considering it but I figured I had to kind of manage it.

“ I didn’t get full on panic attacks – whereas I have friends who wouldn’t be able to breathe.

“I wouldn’t get that, I would just get palpitations.

“And I could never sit down and turn on the TV and watch it. I could never relax.

“People who would have known me before would realise that was not me at all.”

Yet in 2016, as the Mental Health Gravy train was leaving the station, this anxiety had morphed into the below:

@TreatyStones

He specifically says in his 2013 articles that he never suffered from a panic attack, that he just got anxious after the first series of the voice.

He also specifically says it was a new “condition” and "People who would have known me before would realise that was not me at all.”

Yet now this has morphed into his teenage years being ruined by “Crippling insomnia, harrowing panic attacks and incomprehensible self-harm dictated my life, all disguised behind a mask of normality that polarised the general lazy stereotype or label we associate with those with a mental health illness."

@TreatyStones

Read the above, and now read this passage from his speech to Oireachtas:

Some days I would sit in my classroom on the verge of fainting as I hyperventilated and fought for air while my teachers continued to teach the class, oblivious to the fact that one of their students was in the midst of a living nightmare. I spent so many of my school days praying that some of our teachers may talk about this, or just say something so I didn’t feel so isolated and terrified. They never did.

@Rocko

My expose on Bressie

[briantinnion]

Outstanding work from @TreatyStones

[TreatyStones]

A search on Google for those articles and news reports now reveals absolutely no trace of them.
It’s as if somebody has gone to Google and requested a take down of the articles.

Edit: actually there is a still a link to the mirror article

http://www.irishmirror.ie/incoming/voice-judge-bressie-reveals-rte-1765612

[Spidey]

SCENES.

[TreatyStones]

@TreatyStones

A search on Google for those articles and news reports now reveals absolutely no trace of them. It’s as if somebody has gone to Google and requested a take down of the articles.

I see I actually came across this during the original investigation last year.
At the time I used the very handy Time Machine from Google, to pull up his old blog which has since been very conveniently been deleted

https://web.archive.org/web/20130405062801/http://www.bressiemusic.com/?page_id=1011

[flattythehurdler]

Is this enough to push him to COTY glory?
I reckon he has every chance of pipping Angela Kerins and Ray to a lifetime achievement award.

[Julio_Geordio]

@flattythehurdler

Is this enough to push him to COTY glory?
I reckon he has every chance of pipping Angela Kerins and Ray to a lifetime achievement award.

Alison O’Reilly will be hard bet

[Gman]

I’m putting my full support to Alison O’Reilly. Once @horsebox also declares, it will almost be like the exit polls in the US American Presidential election.

[myboyblue]

@flattythehurdler

Is this enough to push him to COTY glory?

No, this is O’Reilly’s year.

[Julio_Geordio]

@myboyblue

No, this is O’Reilly’s year.

Cunt and all as he is, at least he didn’t con his way into the confidence of a grieving family to get a few words for a newspaper article. That’s some sick shit.

[myboyblue]

Everything about it

The lies
The secret recording
The use of her own kids
The banner headline

Its just abhorrent and disgusting. Its so cold, calculating and completely lacking of human empathy. Its horrifying to think someone could do that in the name of “journalism”.

[flattythehurdler]

I feel bressie may be a perennial contender who will have to settle for a lifetime achievement consolation prize, like luvvies who never win an Oscar despite multiple nominations