‘Most carers are happy to preserve the person they love’

IN an age when celebrity is currency, Martin Cullen wishes the men who put African poverty on the agenda would do the same for family carers.

“What I would like is to see Bono or Bob Geldof involved. We need people of their status to raise the type of awareness The Carers Association deserves,” Martin says.

Martin, 46, from Clondalkin, is one of the country’s 161,000 carers, an unseen army of volunteers carrying out the kind of work the state would otherwise struggle to provide.