GREG BOLGER HAS been rewarded for his impressive form in a Cork City shirt by picking up the SSE Airtricity/SWAI player of the month award for June.
Bolger is the first City player to win the award since Mark O’Sullivan in June 2014, and he succeeds Dundalk winger Daryl Horgan, who was the winner in May.
The 27-year-old Wexford native, who was third in the voting for the previous Soccer Writers’ Association of Ireland award, topped the poll for June ahead of Sean Houston of Finn Harps and Cork City team-mate Stephen Dooley.
“This is my first award,” Bolger said. “It’s not often a midfielder wins it so it does mean a lot. The players who score the goals and grab the headlines get the plaudits and probably get these awards more so but it’s nice to win it.”
Bolger moved to Leeside from St Patrick’s Athletic for the 2016 season and has played a key role as John Caulfield’s second-placed side have sought to challenge the dominance of Premier Division leaders Dundalk.
Bolger: “The season has been good so far but we’re probably a bit disappointed as we beat Dundalk twice and we’re still six points behind them. That’s credit to them.
“We really need them dropping points and us picking up wins and see where it takes us. Hopefully it’s good enough at the end of the year. We’ll be fighting to the end either way.”
Bolger is hoping to be available for Cork City’s Europa League second qualifying round first-leg tie against BK Hacken in Gothenburg on Thursday after missing the second leg of their victory over Linfield in the previous round due to an ankle injury.
“I’ve been getting treatment every day for the last two weeks,” he said. “The medical team here are top notch. Hopefully I’m right for Thursday.”
Well done Sir.
You are a credit to your parents and show people that though they can suffer depression that they can still manage it. Your laying it out straight. Great meas in you.
Nice one. Great to see someone like this talk about these problems
Who are the bottom feeding monkey shite who neg a comment like this?
I just gave my last comment the thumbs up….s’nice
Fair play to Alan coming out and talking about depression. A brave thing to do for such a high profile figure
@James – Regarding the thumbs down, i read a post recently where someone said they didn’t mean to ‘thumb down’ a comment, but the problem was that they were viewing the Journal on a smartphone and they would press the thumbs down by accident when they were scrolling through the comments.
At least i hope that’s the case for Emsy’s post :-)
Well done Quinny! For a player who’s nickname was cheeky and to to survive for so long in a career that’s perceived to be “macho” it’s an even bigger credit to you for speaking out. Hopefully it’ll make life easier for others to do the same.
Great stuff. Each day is an opportunity for “self help” or “self pity” the decision comes slowly to those with depression. Thankfully by talking about it people turn a huge corner and help others. Well done.
Another great sportsman hitting his depression head on, depression is of biblical proportions in this country and only now are we talking about it, the reasons why people hid it in the first place in actual fact was because they really did not know what they had…. Nothing to be ashamed of. I am 44 , ex soldier, hard as nails ( well not really) been suffering for 7 years , no meds at the moment as I have an underlying problem… But hey bad days are bad, good days are few but help is coming soon.
Well done Alan . I hope the media give it huge coverage especially in the sports pages as alot of the time they are the only pages young people read and they do need to understand more than anything else that depression is nothing to be ashamed of or fear . Sadly our graveyards are full of young men who were to afraid to seek help
Great post Jerry, well said
If Quinny saves one person from years of depression and missed positive experiences what a man he is and deserves all life can bring him keep it up lad : )
Great to see sufferers open up and talk so frankly about it. As someone who suffers from depression, I take great comfort in watching someone get it out in the open. Depression comes in many forms and at different levels of severity.
Stereotypically we think of sufferers locked away in a dark room, crying and drinking heavily, listening to Morrissey. In reality, it’s very different. Reason , logic and rational thinking are thrown out the window and instead you are bombarded with negative thoughts, that you believe. Men are much more likely to suffer as we think that looking for help is a weakness, and that we can do it by ourselves. We can’t.
The road to recovery isn’t as daunting as you may think. Pick up the phone and talk to someone.