Gary O'Donoghue
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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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But I went to the hospital and I was there for another few weeks.
And eventually the consultant I'd had from birth, a famous ophthalmologist called Greaves, he sat my mother down and said, look, it's over.
He's not going to be able to see ever again.
And...
He said straight away after that, he said, he's not going to see again.
And the thing you must do right now is make sure he gets the best education he can possibly get.
Yeah.
There was no support in those days at all.
My mother told me that at one point when they'd made an artificial eye for me, the nurse couldn't manage to put it in, so she wrapped it in a tissue and said, you try when you get home.
Off you go.
Here it is.
And later in life, my mother actually said to me there was a point in those early years where, you know, she considered killing us both.
Oh, my God.
But, you know, I was so touched, actually, that she told me that.
The courage to tell me that and trusted me enough to tell me that because I kind of...
I got it you know I can understand it made me understand how lonely it must have been for her and my father and the sense of desperation that that she would have had as you say with with no support around it and really unsure what the future held you know all of that I think I sort of understood that that they were worried for me and I think you know I was obviously must have been a bit anxious because I remember trying to run away from home a couple of times and sort of
Where did you go?
I told my mum I was going to her mother's, my nan's.
Where did she live?
She lived up in Kentish Town.
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