Diarmuid O'Flynn on prostate cancer: I delayed going to the doctor and almost paid the price

Prostate cancer is in the news with the announcement that a former US president has the disease. Diarmuid O’Flynn reflects on his experience and urges other men not to do as he did — delay going to a doctor

Diarmuid O’Flynn: "The news in the last few days that former US President Joe Biden has been diagnosed with prostate cancer surely reinforces the fact that any of us, all of us, are vulnerable."

Whenever I’m asked, ‘How are you?’, I have a stock reply, which I’ve had for decades: ‘If I were any better, I’d have to take a pill!’

It’s an inherited attitude, the O’Flynn/O’Leary (my mother’s side) approach to life: Embrace it, love it, live it. Be alive; not just head down and trudging through, but, even in this ever-darkening world, keep all the senses wide open to all the goodness still out there.