Wally, the gripping story of Portlaoise rapper Wally O'Loughlin and his struggles with drugs and depression, will be broadcast on RTÉ One tonight at 10.30pm.

The project was undertaken by Anne-Marie Kelly, the well-known radio personality who currently hosts the Midlands 103 breakfast show.

She has spent the last two years following the rapper, capturing his road to redemption after a life of mental health problems and a suicide attempts.

Kelly says: "This documentary intends to reach those who may feel ignored by the media, family, and society, the ‘real people’. There are no psychiatrists here quoting statistics, this is a man opening up his heart, letting us in to see how he survived and got himself out of the hole he was in."