Jason Clancy

when I googled him you know and you know people say to me and look I'm very open about it I'm open about sexual abuse because I think it's so important for people you know that they can put up their hand I think at the time as well like when you look at it there was five men on the television we were on the front of newspapers

five men standing up saying, look, we were sexually abused.

So like, to be honest, that was unheard of in Ireland because there was this shame, which there would never, should never be.

And I hope we've changed that as well, you know, along the way.

but, um,

Yeah, it's speaking to you about mental health, you know, and I'm open about it.

Look, I've had a couple of breakdowns in the last probably two years now or 18 months.

I've been in St.

Pat's Psychiatric Hospital in Dublin here for probably about seven months.

Yeah.

And somebody said to me, look, do you regret doing it?

Like the personal cost to me and to my family has been horrific.

I mean, you know, like I ended up, I had a very successful company that I just actually couldn't run anymore because of my mental health.

And I ended up selling it, which should never have happened, you know.

I set up a company when I was 23, legal service company, and became one of the biggest companies of that type in the country.

Yeah.

But I wasn't able to keep doing it.

I just wasn't.

But, you know, getting back to it, I think if I didn't do it, if I looked and saw him knowing that he was in with children in a basketball club and he had, you know, and I didn't do it, I could never be able to look my kids in the eye.

And, you know, I spoke to my eldest daughter only two nights ago about this and I said to her, you know what?