Broadcaster Marty Morrissey in blood pressure check appeal after family deaths

Marty Morrissey launching the Irish Heart Foundation’s Before Damage is Done campaign. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/PA

Broadcaster and author Marty Morrissey has urged people to have the “silent killer” of blood pressure checked, having lost his father and grandfather to heart attacks.

The GAA commentator said their deaths fuelled his acute awareness of cardiac health as he backed the Irish Heart Foundation’s Before Damage is Done campaign.