Charlie Bird is out walking with his rescue dog, a cockapoo called Tiger. ‘I’m between Wicklow Town and a place called Killoughter,’ he says down the phone, describing the scene with the evocative imagery that marked his almost 40 years of reporting the news for RTÉ. ‘The sun is shining, the sea is just there.
I can see two boats, and the headland of Wicklow. I’m looking at the Wicklow and Dublin Mountains. It’s so beautiful. ‘I know this may not be for long more, that I can see this.
It’s like an out-of-body experience for me, but I am genuinely thinking of other people as well. I want to be kind to everyone.’ On Wednesday, Charlie shared on Twitter the news that he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, a progressive neurological
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