Selfless father ‘humbled’ by carer of the year award

“You don’t volunteer for this kind of job — you do it when you have to,” said octogenarian Peter Riordan, Ireland’s National Carer of the Year.

Peter, 81, a father of 10 from Naas, Co Kildare, cares for his sons Bernard, 51, and Ronan, 36.

Bernard was left brain-damaged and is a wheelchair user following a car crash in 1978 in which his brother, Stephen, who was 15 at the time, died. The brain damage has left him with poor co-ordination and balance, double vision, and sporadic memory loss.