"This Is Christy" tonight at 9:35pm RTE One

This is Christy, airing on RTÉ One tonight, follows Aslan's Christy Dignam in the run up to Aslan’s sell out gig at Dublin’s Iveagh Gardens last weekend.

The documentary is an intimate portrait of an artist who has battled back from some of life’s deepest traumas including sexual abuse, drug addiction and cancer.

Christy also tells about how he had suppressed the trauma of the abuse but the memories came back to him after seeking treatment for drug addiction in the Rutland Centre.

It's a not to be missed documentary one of Ireland's leading front men and the band behind him Aslan.

This is Christy airs Tuesday, July 11 on RTÉ One at 9.35pm.