Ruth Codd

The pair, who are a couple in real life as well as on the RTÉ soap, shared some insight into their life following Murray's diagnosis and his struggles with ...

“I felt less disabled with a prosthetic leg than I did with the splint and when I was on crutches and in a wheelchair. If people want to use the word disabled or differently abled or whatever, I'm at a point now where I'm like, us whatever word you want — I'm Ruth.” “A good story will move with you through the decades. Finally, mythologist and author Martin Shaw joined the host to discuss storytelling and tradition. [spoke publicly about their situation](https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/artsandculture/arid-40953446.html) “to let people know that it's not the end of the road for if you get a diagnosis of dementia, that you can keep going. I said I'd give myself three years, and I did and here I am.” “And yet it was what saved me. The person that I'm doing the scene with, after they're finished, I’d be fed the line that I'm next to say, and I got used to it and it was as easy as pie. I thought, ‘the cheek of me thinking I could get up on stage and entertain people, this was far too frivolous’. I was very happy amateur for years,” she says. Crawford O’Brien says she is reluctant to call herself Murray’s carer but describes her role as “minding him”. Crawford O’Brien says she sees a long career still ahead of them in Fair City.