Talented Waterford hurler Seanie Barry surprised to learn he has Type 1 diabetes

A talented hurler, and a member of the Co Waterford senior hurling panel, Seanie Barry noticed that lately he always seemed to feel thirsty and dehydrated.
This was in 2014, and the young man from Lismore Co Waterford recalls, that on top of that, he was urinating 20 or 30 times a day and waking up at all hours of the night to go to the loo. Something wasn’t right — but all the same, he confesses, it took him around four months to get around to seeing the doctor. But when he did, in January 2015, the results were dramatic: