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It was very different when Ciaráin Murtagh started out. The just-retired Roscommon footballer – now embracing a new role with Movember, the men’s health charity – harks back to 2014 when mental health awareness among the inter-county populace was foggy at best. “We had access to a psychologist, but it was nearly as if you only went to the psychologist if you had a problem,” he says.