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BRIAN KENNEDY HAS opened up about how his life has changed since being diagnosed with rectal cancer.
Speaking on TV3′s Elaine, Kennedy urged men to not let embarrassment stop them from getting regular check-ups.
The singer, who turned 50 last year, told Elaine he recently received a letter from a man that had the title ‘You have saved my life’.
“For 10 seconds of embarrassment it can alter your life. This guy had a bunch a kids, he found out [he had cancer], he was operated on, he’s in great shape. Already from one interview that I gave someone could see this and decided to go to the GP.
“[Men] don’t seem to have the language. We’re great at telling the filthy jokes and all of that but when it comes to serious subjects, when it comes to below the belt, it’s all like, ‘Oh no, I’m not going to the GP and dropping the pants’.”
Treatment
The former Eurovision hopeful also said his love life hasn’t suffered since his treatment.
“It’s a wee bit a conversation killer when you suddenly have to start talking about cancer, in particular rectal cancer…
“I’ve always had a very, very high sex drive since I was very young and that is one of the worries about having chemo or radiation as that can kill that kind of stuff. And let me tell you it is the opposite.”
Kennedy said he is still receiving treatment and his tumour is shrinking, but he hasn’t been given the all-clear yet.
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makes a mockery of our whole system when you have Michael Lowery cosily perched up behind the PAC in session with Nama…joke!
I look forward to the day the Golden Circle end up in Jail !
keep looking forward Dermot..this is Ireland!!
it will come Nigel – it will come, I promise you that !
Will never happen Dermot. We all know the reasons why too.
Change is always inevitable when 100,00 irish people take to the street Yogi – I have to have hope or this is just a criminal island and if it is then I am not paying another penny to it .
Why should I pay to impoverish myself with accusations of a Government Minister having an Ansbacher account and the whole thing being hidden in P.A.C. ……
@Dermot
And what laws did the people who constitute the “Golden Circle” (if there even is such a thing) break?
Fraudulent accounting and bankrupting a nation?
Educate yourselves and listen in to the banking enquiry until the end. Then take aim. Unfortunately politics has seriously muddied the waters and confused people as to where the blame lies. “Department of finance employees went home to find out what was in the budget” “public spending should have been substantially cut in 2005″. It was worth it so far to see Pearse Doherty and Joe Higgins’ jaws alone.
I agree,listen and learn,some good probing questions and responses from the banking enquiry yesterday,pertinent to the McGuinness comment.
“It saddens me to be part of a parliament that created legislation that would bring about the type of grief that I heard explained to me yesterday.I just wonder how,as parliamentarians and legislators,we can correct that”
So what do you propose this correction/solution might be,so that this might not happen again?
People understand now we have been manoeuvred into this cul de sac due to the failure of the private banking system and it’s excesses to deliver unrealistic projected profits, and now appointed people like you are dealing with the fall out.
What options do we have, what changes are to be made,is there an alternative?
There is a “proven” alternative banking model to be examined that would work in the people’s interest.
..And a further joke is that a supposed ‘bad’ bank is allowed to become a Developer.. of the ‘people’s’ land, in conjunction with private enterprise. Does this not circumvent the whole ideology of NAMA’s raison d’être??
Surely this is exactly what NAMA was created to do? “Repair” the high street banks balance sheets (I.e. Hide the debt) then sell the assets when a decent price could be had to repay the cost? Some speculative fcuknuts have definitely “got away with it” but if the ultimate aim is achieved then like it or not, it worked.
Public accounts committee, a bunch oh grossly overpaid civil servants giving out to grossly overpaid civil servants about their salaries and bonuses. John McGuinnes is an expert on spending tax payers money as well, you couldn’t make all this up
you mightn’t be able to make it up but you can break it down !
Is it true that they spent 80,000 euros on tables and chairs in the fitting out , for this Bank Enquiry.
some lad has to get a “twist” sure ….. and they wonder why there is talk of revolution ….
The citizens didn’t set up Nama nor did the citizens mismanage bank regulation nor did they organise Benchmarking or set up the HSE but the citizens know who did and they should never forget.
Never again should a politician of any hue ever feel comfortable in Govt nor should we believe the lie that ‘stability’ in Govt is good for the country, its good for the politicians and their cronies but it’s just disastrous for the majority of citizens.
People make their own choices
People are guided in their choices by economic Data and projections – quite often supplied by politicians ….
I will add they are also taxed by these politicians to make sure the likes of Nama should never occur …I feel embezzled !
It’s all rigged!
On The 10th Of December Ireland Will Rise by Maxi…: http://youtu.be/MW2vZodE9cE changing coming soon I think…
Mary Lou-boutin looking as irate as ever
NAMA are about the only ones making money for the taxpayer. They seem to be on target to make a return in line wit that they forecasted. They should be chasing everyone regardless if it’s a farmer, property developer or business who owe money. It’s a toxic bank for a reason!
go listen to the Anglo tapes and educate yourself a little Paul …..
Why
There are no Unions that represent workers and no parliament that represent its people.
did the guy borrow against his farm to build a shopping centre?
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