{"id":34297,"date":"2025-08-31T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34297\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T07:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T07:34:20","slug":"i-had-serious-problems-with-alcohol-and-drugs-gaa-saved-me-padraig-ohoras-journey-from-pit-of-despair-to-climbing-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/34297\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I had serious problems with alcohol and drugs\u2026 GAA saved me\u2019 \u2013 P\u00e1draig O\u2019Hora\u2019s journey from pit of despair to climbing Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Former Mayo footballer knows what it\u2019s like to be a troubled teenager and is making a difference to young lives as he prepares for his biggest challenge yet\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P\u00e1draig O\u2019Hora: \u2018There isn\u2019t anything better in this world for your mental health. Just being in the mountains. Because your phone is off. No contact. No worries.\u2019\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/bf47638e-0e9d-48d0-824c-f4b8e57f5f43.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">P\u00e1draig O\u2019Hora: \u2018There isn\u2019t anything better in this world for your mental health. Just being in the mountains. Because your phone is off. No contact. No worries.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A few weeks ago, P\u00e1draig O\u2019Hora played for Ballina Stephenites against Ballyhaunis in the Mayo senior football championship. At the final whistle Ballina were comfortable winners, their task complete. But for O\u2019Hora, the day was only starting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cThen I got in the kayak. Kayaked the whole way across the lake \u2014 took an hour and a half. Then I got on the bike. Cycled from Foxford to Croagh Patrick. That was 52k \u2014 just over two hours.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Mayo footballer knows what it\u2019s like to be a troubled teenager and is making a difference to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[26709,18,19,17,26710,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-34297","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-dermot-crowe","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-mayo-gaa","13":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}