The GAA star (28) lost his older brother John in 2012 after a long battle with addiction and said his death changed him as a person and altered his attitude towards addicts.
“John was an amazing person,” Philly told The Nicky Byrne Show on 2FM.
“Not a lot of people or society sees that about drug addicts. They don’t see it that it’s someone’s brother, someone’s son.
“All they see is this person who is lower than me because they’re on drugs. It’s a stigma that needs to change,” he said.
The All-Ireland winner from Ballymun revealed that John’s addiction sometimes embarrassed him when he was growing up, but many of his happiest memories are times he spend with John, who died aged 31.
Source: Patricia Murphy, Irish Independent, 25/05/16
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