Cork father of three 'went from going for short walks to not being able to stand' 

Bryan and Charlotte with Jesse, Ty and Elle. Picture: Michaela Dunlop

Bryan O’Brien acknowledges the cruel irony of watching his baby son take his first steps as motor neurone disease (MND) robs him of his own mobility.

It comes as his community rallies around the 41-year-old father of three following a rare and accelerated form of the illness which, in the space of only six weeks, has left him in a wheelchair.