An NCAD college friend Brian Hartnett is an advocate for the Irish Advocacy Network.

Peer advocates are people who have personal experience of mental health difficulties who have achieved a sufficient level of recovery to complete an accredited training course in peer advocacy.

http://www.irishadvocacynetwork.com/reg-advocates.html

He has had an amazing life experience. He tells the story here:

http://www.irishadvocacynetwork.com/news5.htm

He was interviewed on RTE recently. Here is a link to the POD CAST.

http://www.rte.ie/radio1/podcast/podcast_documentaryonone.xml

Brian Hartnett and Mark Ryan at our Industrial Design class 2o year (!) re-union in Dublin