Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick is mourning his beloved mother Rita, following her death on Wednesday aged 92.
Mrs Fitzpatrick was often fondly spoken of by her TV star son on his hit show, The Supervet, and he travelled home to Mountmellick, Co Laois regularly to see her.
His father Sean, the man he still called his hero, died in was August 2006 after collapsing on the family farm while Noel was working in England.
