Gary O'Donoghue
speaker
1,144 appearances
20 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Sep
Gary O'Donoghue’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No one knows.
I think there was some sort of speculation that maybe my mother had had German measles or something when she was pregnant, but no one really knows.
And one of my eyes, they took one of my eyes out when I was a baby.
I spent quite a lot of time in hospital when I was a baby, which...
you know, a huge burden for my parents.
But I could see a bit, you know, I was sort of partially sighted, and so I could see out of one eye, and I could see enough to ride a bike.
But it was pretty unstable, and when I was five, I fell off my bike and detached the retina and had to have that fixed.
And then when I was, in fact, it was the day before my eighth birthday, I have a very clear memory of walking.
I was at a school for the partially sighted, a day school.
And I remember walking out into the playground after lunch.
I think I was the first one out there.
And I climbed the climbing frame and I couldn't see the way down.
And I thought, OK, there's something something's wrong here.
And they bought me this.
I never forget.
They bought me this sort of action man doll.
Right.
Ironically enough, the six million dollar man with his bionic eye.
Right.
And I'm in the kitchen trying to stare through this little hole in the back of this doll's head, trying to persuade my parents I really can see something still.
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