Country singer Lisa McHugh spoke about the \u201chuge wake-up call\u201d of her recent diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder (FND). She described the difficulties in finding a diagnosis as her medical tests all came back clear.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results come back \u2018normal\u2019, but your symptoms are very real. People have seizures, they have speech problems, they’ve tremors, they’ve weakness, which is what I have.\u201d\u2028 The mother of two said that since sharing her diagnosis, she has had many people reach out with similar stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I was diagnosed, I’d never heard of it at all, but since I have shared my story, the thousands of messages I have had from people to say that they’re going through something similar and they’ve been sent home and they’ve no help.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey’ve nowhere to turn or what to do, and they’re really, really struggling. It’s mind-blowing the amount of people who are so ill.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The mother of two said despite doing what she loves for work, \u201cstress and burnout\u201d while touring may have triggered her FND.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s touring around the country, and you’re eating at the wrong times, you’re eating the wrong food, you’re not getting enough sleep and you’re going home then late at night.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’re getting up first thing in the morning with the kids, being mum again and then you’re going to do the shop. You’re trying to squeeze in everything and wear every hat you can, and in that time I just completely forgot about looking after myself,.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Thursday Murder Club author and TV presenter\u00a0Richard Osman\u00a0spoke to Patrick Kielty about becoming a writer as well as his career in quiz shows.<\/p>\n
On the topic of Celebrity Traitors, Osman revealed he would love to see beloved Irish author Marian Keyes taking part.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine Marian as a Traitor! She’d be the greatest Traitor of all time because no one would believe it of her,\u201d he said, adding she previously gave him helpful advice when they were talking about the difficulty of finding time to write.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only thing about writing, if you’re writing, is you’ve got to sit down and do it – that’s the only rule. You’ve got to put your backside in the chair and actually start. It’s like going to the gym: you’ve got to put your trainers on. And that’s the worst bit of it, and once you’ve done it, you think, ‘Now I’m going to have to do it’.<\/p>\n
“And she said, ‘Well, I always light a candle. Before I start writing, I light a candle. So, before the candle is lit, I’m not writing. When it’s lit, I am writing’. I said, ‘That’s a really lovely idea’.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then two days later I get a thing in the post – and it’s a candle from Marian, saying ‘Happy writing’. That’s nice, so I cannot believe she’s a Traitor! That is why she’d be amazing!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
There was not one but two comedians in the studio on Friday night. First, Cork comic Kyla Cobbler made her Late Late debut and spoke about why running a marathon was \u201cthe worst experience\u201d of her life.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnybody that runs a marathon, what you need to do, go home and repair the relationship with your family. Stop running marathons. It is so awful,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everyone kept saying to me, if you run half, you can run a full one, and that is not true. And people kept saying as well, it’s a mental game. It’s not. It’s very physical. It’s extremely physical.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just want to pay my rent and stay hydrated and I’m buzzing. Honestly, life is a marathon, right?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Vittorio Angelone also spoke on the show about growing up in an Italian Irish family in Belfast, carving out his place in the comedy scene, and falling asleep doing a very important match.<\/p>\n
He revealed that recently a bout of jet lag saw him snooze through the Ireland v Hungary game, only waking as the final goal was scored.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not used to this \u2014 winning. I\u2019m worried that we are getting filled with expectation,\u201d he said, describing how England football fans seem to have a misplaced confidence in tournaments.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s funny, in the build-up to a tournament they\u2019re all like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s coming home\u2019. And it never is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Country singer Lisa McHugh spoke about the \u201chuge wake-up call\u201d of her recent diagnosis of Functional Neurological Disorder…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,7539,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-153856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-the-late-late-show","12":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}