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Ireland advises Jeremy Clarkson on Clarkson\u2019s Farm (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\nBy Casey Cooper-Fiske, Press Association Senior Entertainment Reporter<\/p>\n
Clarkson\u2019s Farm star Charlie Ireland has used Father\u2019s Day to raise awareness for motor neurone disease (MND), remembering his late father\u2019s \u201cdevastating\u201d diagnosis.<\/p>\n
The agronomist and land agent \u2013 who advises Clarkson, who revealed his prostate cancer was in remission on Saturday on the Prime Video show \u2013 shared a video of himself to raise awareness of global MND awareness day, which is taking place on Sunday, the same day as Father\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n
Ireland said: \u201cOverall, I think it\u2019s a poignant day Father\u2019s Day \u2013 men are more likely to develop the disease, so the fact the global awareness day falls on Father\u2019s Day makes it just a little bit special this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s also particularly poignant for me that it lands on Father\u2019s Day \u2013 my father was affected with motor neurone disease and he died in 2011 having been diagnosed in late 2007.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough nearly 15 years has passed, and time really does heal, it\u2019s an opportunity to remind people of the devasting impact of the disease.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, it impacts far too many people and anything we can do to improve, accelerate getting an answer to a cure would be absolutely marvellous.\u201d<\/p>\n
He has also thrown his support behind the MND Association\u2019s Special Days Matter campaign as an ambassador of the charity, which urges people to share their memories of loved ones who have suffered with the disease.<\/p>\n
Ireland added: \u201cDad had a great sense of humour and he also treated people incredibly fairly no matter who they were, which really was a powerful trait that enabled him to talk to absolutely anybody, which was a fantastic as a boy growing up.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad was a farmer, but he backed us to go and do other things with our careers, so my brother, my sister and I have all done different things, and he was incredibly supportive of whatever we did.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was quite pleased that I worked in agriculture, and we would talk quite often on our \u2018new\u2019 mobile phones back in the late 90s, early 2000s. He was just a great support and I really valued his advice as I grew up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ireland advises Jeremy Clarkson on Clarkson\u2019s Farm (Andrew Matthews\/PA)<\/p>\n
The MND Association says six people are diagnosed with the disease, which attacks the nerves which send messages to the muscles, each day in the UK.<\/p>\n
It says that within months a person with MND may lose their voice, their movement and even their ability to breath.<\/p>\n
Ireland\u2019s message comes after Clarkson urged people to get tested for prostate cancer following his diagnosis, which was revealed in the latest episodes of the fifth series of Clarkson\u2019s Farm.<\/p>\n
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Clarkson said: \u201cThis is why I have to say to everybody who\u2019s reading this, please, please, please go and get checked.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not uncomfortable, it\u2019s not undignified and it\u2019s a no-brainer. I did, and that\u2019s why I\u2019m sitting here talking to you.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Casey Cooper-Fiske, Press Association Senior Entertainment Reporter Clarkson\u2019s Farm star Charlie Ireland has used Father\u2019s Day to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511979,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-511978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511978","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=511978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}