The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast focuses on the biggest, best and quirkiest stories from the Irish Examiner's unrivalled team of reporters and contributors.
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The Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast focuses on the biggest, best and quirkiest stories from the Irish Examiner's unrivalled team of reporters and contributors.
If you want the latest news, the best insight into what’s happening in Cork and around Munster, and the inside track on our exclusive national stories, look no further.
Dropping twice a week on Tuesdays and Fridays, the Deirdre O'Shaughnessy Podcast will help you stay up to date with the Irish Examiner's best content.
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Irish Examiner Fashion Editor Annmarie O’Connor is well known to readers as a stylist, a writer, and more recently an advocate for people with Parkinson’s disease.
She was the keynote speaker at Thursday’s IEStyleLive2025, and she is the guest editor of this Saturday’s Weekend Magazine. Annmarie sat down with Deirdre O’Shaughnessy for an honest and open chat about her life as it is now and her new book Twitch: My Life with Parkinson’s.
In this special episode of The Deirdre O’Shaughnessy Podcast, Annmarie speaks candidly about learning to live well with Parkinson’s, how her family’s history has shaped her, and her belief in the spirit world.
“You’ll go on, dear, because you have to, and you’ll do it one day at a time,” is what her mother told her upon learning of her diagnosis. “One foot in front of the other” is the family motto, learned in adversity.
The trajectory of Annmarie's family life was altered by the death of her father when she was just four years old, her mother returning from New York to rural Galway with her daughters to open a B&B. She describes her father’s mother, sent to America by ship at just seven years old to work in the household of a distant cousin, and the survival skills of her maternal grandmother, who raised her young family alone after her husband was killed at sea in a freak Galway storm.
In this in-depth interview, Annmarie describes how a long-buried issue with disordered eating resurfaced after her Parkinson’s diagnosis, and how she dealt with it. She talks about her belief in psychics and the spirit world, the joy she has found in friendships and the love of her family, and the challenge of dating with the additional stress of uncontrollable limb movements.
Inspiring, full-hearted and hopeful, Annmarie's is a story of surviving the worst that life can throw at you, and learning to thrive with it.
ieStyle Live: Standing ovation as Annmarie O’Connor speaks about when 'life falls apart'
Book review: O’Connor finds quiet certainty to carry on after Parkinson’s diagnosis
Annmarie O'Connor: Three things I've learned since my Parkinson's diagnosis
'I arrived at CUH before 9am. By 4pm, I had been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease'
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