Charlie Bird: 'From now on, I will be using a wheelchair'

The retired broadcaster and Motor Neurone Disease advocate issued an update on Twitter/X today, two years on from his diagnosis.

Charlie Bird, pictured in Dublin in June of 2023. Pic: Stephen Collins/Collins Photos

Retired broadcaster and Motor Neurone Disease advocate Charlie Bird has updated his many supporters on his condition in a Twitter post on Wednesday afternoon, two years on from his diagnosis of the neurological condition.

"Two years ago this week I got my diagnosis of Motor Neurone [Disease]," says the former chief correspondent of RTÉ.