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Sarah Slater

Former RTE radio star asks for 'prayers' as wife suddenly becomes seriously unwell

Well-known broadcaster and author Gareth O’Callaghan has asked for the public’s “prayers” as he revealed his wife suddenly became unwell on Monday.

Despite being diagnosed with a rare life-changing and incurable disease Multiple System Atrophy (MSA) a neurodegenerative illness of which there is no cure, he resumed presenting on Classic Hits FM on Saturdays as his condition stabilised four years later.

The father-of-three took to social media in the early hours of Tuesday morning about his wife Paula being ill saying: “My beautiful soulmate, my gorgeous wife, is not well tonight.

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