Legendary Irish songwriter and broadcaster Shay Healy has revealed that he was walked over by several people after he fell while walking on Dublin's Nassau Street.
The 73-year-old, who hosted the groundbreaking Nighthawks show on RTÉ and who also wrote 1980 Eurovision winner What's Another Year, has Parkinson's Disease and spoke about the condition to Ryan Tubridy on Friday night's Late Late Show.
"The tips of my fingers are numb, so if a pea falls on the floor it stays there," he explained. "And I can't do simple things like tie my laces pretty well any more."
"People have been so splendid about it," he said, before recounting a rather unpleasant experience on the streets of Dublin.
"I had a fall in Nassau Street and I hit the kerb, and I went full head-on and four people walked over me," he said, laughing. "The fifth person stopped and said, 'Are you okay?'"
Healy has just released his new album Stardust - The Stable Sessions, which was recorded with some of his fellow Irish musicians over the course of three days in the Dublin mountains.
