Ironmind is a documentary where a collective passion for positive change by a group of individuals aims to highlight that resilience, once located and cultivated, can allow us all do great things.
Ironmind will be aired on RTÉ2 on Sunday 22nd November at 9.30pm and the second instalment will be the following week at the same time.
If I am being honest, I had imagined it would have been an easier project to get the cogs moving on but the reality was a lot of decision makers in the industry were not willing to engage with the subject quite yet due to the sensitivity, complexity and stigma still surrounding it. Duty of care is at the core of most decisions when it comes to such projects, and I totally agree with this frame of thought, but sometimes we have to follow our gut and believe in a vision.
I found it difficult to get the funding in place to create such a project, but ultimately RTÉ2 made the decision to invest in my idea, even though it was a risk, as I was asking them to believe in what we were aiming to do without any real guarantee of the outcome.
Our aim was to work with a group of individuals with varying degrees of primary care mental health issues over the course of six months to train them to compete in a 70.3 Ironman Triathlon, but more importantly to develop their coping strategies and mental fitness with the hope that it would allow them deal much more effectively with their minds and emotional wellbeing.
We put in place some incredible people to allow us to do this. People who invested months and months of their time and passion into a project, for no other reason than they wanted to try to make a difference, and also for no return except the knowledge that are making a difference. Over the course of six months, I witnessed a group of people transform, not just physically but more importantly mentally. Read more
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