Popular radio presenter Dermot Whelan has spoken about the "pain" of losing his mother to dementia, saying some days he cried to himself when she failed to recognise him.
The Today FM presenter told Kieran Cuddihy's The Hard Shoulder programme that it felt like the "rug was pulled out from under him" after his late mum was diagnosed with dementia.
"It doesn't matter what age you are, your mammy leaving you, even if you weren't seeing her every week, psychologically, it's a blow," he said live on Newstalk afternoon radio.
