‘You don’t know how you are going to wake up’

ALAN O’CONNOR was 36 years old when he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

That was in 1985, when he was married with young children and worked as a successful banker in Cork.

His colleagues, who did not know for four years that he had MS, used to think he was returning to work from a ‘liquid’ lunch when his legs used to wobble.