The Ireland AM presenter has opened up about the struggle of seeing his mum suffer with dementia - and how he had to say goodbye to her twice because of the disease
The Ireland AM presenter's mum, Christina, sadly passed away in 2019.Read more:Noel Cunningham felt 'hurt and belittled' after Pope Francis used offensive term
"We don’t know how long she had it because when she’s opening presses and saying the cutlery is in here when it’s really the crockery you just pass it off at first, you let the mistakes go, so it’s hard to know when the symptoms first really start," Martin said."You really say goodbye to a person twice, that’s when they first get diagnosed and then when they pass.”
“I wanted to know but after speaking to a number of people we just don’t know," he told the Irish Sun.
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