Gareth O’Callaghan Biography
Gareth O’Callaghan is a former radio and television broadcaster and writer from Ireland recently heard on 4fm, having previously presented shows on RTÉ 2fm until 2005, and subsequently a show on Galway Bay FM.
How old is Gareth O’Callaghan? – Age
He is 62 years old as of 24 March 2023. He was born in 1961 in Dublin, Ireland.
Gareth O’Callaghan Family – Education
O’Callaghan was assaulted by a brother at St Anthony’s House in Clara, County Offaly, when he was eleven years old. He was carried to his bedroom at night by his brother, who taught him how to bake bread. O’Callaghan was unable to inform his mother when his brother invited him to Clara for Easter. He left with a suitcase and was met at the train station in Clara. He escaped at 5 a.m. on the second night, hiding among a woman and her children at the Clara train station. He then rode the bus home, alerting his mother of his impending departure.
O’Callaghan had nightmares about his attacker returning that lasted for years. He skipped school, went to confession at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral, and was accused of slandering his brother’s name. His mother, who was more compassionate, believed he was not to blame. When O’Callaghan was twenty, he ran across his abuser again, but his brother recognized him and turned away.
Is Gareth O Callaghan married? – Wife
He met Paula Delaney in March 2015, about a fortnight after the death of O’Callaghan’s “dear friend” Tony Fenton. In September 2020, he will marry her at the Cork Registry Office. O’Callaghan and his wife live in Cork. Kerri, Katie, and Aibhn are his three daughters.
Gareth O’Callaghan Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of €86,000.
Gareth O’Callaghan Illness
O’Callaghan suffered from depression from the 1990s till 2015. In 1999, he lost three stone in less than three months and was put on antidepressants for two years. He began to get chest pains in early 2016. He tripped over a sofa at work (the Classic Hits radio station) in late 2017.
O’Callaghan revealed to Neil Prendeville’s Cork’s Red FM broadcast in March 2018 that he has Parkinson’s disease (PD). O’Callaghan retired from radio in August 2018 after being diagnosed with multiple system atrophy (MSA), an incurable and even rarer disease (fewer than 3,500 persons were thought to be suffering from the disorder in Ireland and the UK at the time).
Gareth O’Callaghan Accident
O’Callaghan was hospitalized for six weeks following a car accident in Cork in March 2023. As a result of the incident, he sustained a fractured back, a burst lung, and other injuries. His injuries kept him in the hospital for six weeks before he was able to come home.
Gareth O’Callaghan Books
O’Callaghan has been composing beginning around 1995. Until this point in time, he is the creator of six top-of-the-line works – five books and a journal. He has contributed two stories to the New Island Open Entryway series, entitled Joe’s Wedding and Lost Canine.
New Island distributes artistic fiction, verse, show, history, legislative issues, and parties. O’Callaghan composed A Day Called Trust: An Excursion Past Sorrow about his very own insight into extreme discouragement. The book itemized how, when left his radio work every day, he would withdraw to his bed, once in a while with considerations of self-destruction. It became one of the greatest-selling books in Ireland in 2003 and keeps on selling on a large scale. It has been distributed in 15 nations and converted into 10 dialects.
O’Callaghan is likewise an ordinary supporter of a considerable lot of the public papers in Ireland, having composed consistently for The Irish Times, the Sunday Free, and the Night Messenger. He is presently composing a spin-off of A Day Called Trust and is likewise supposed to be dealing with another book. His seventh book, What Makes a Difference Now: A Journal of Trust and Seeing as a Way Through the Dim, was distributed in Walk 2021.
Gareth O’Callaghan Career
O’Callaghan began working with little privateers like Radio Dublin. He then was a moderator on “superpirate” Radio Nova in the mid 1980s, trailed by Daylight Radio (momentarily), later Energy 103FM and Q102 (momentarily). He put in a couple of years on UK radio, after his spell with Daylight Radio in 1983, beginning with seaward privateer Radio Caroline.
After Q102, O’Callaghan got lawful Irish radio together with Thousand years Radio and afterward in 1989 he moved to the recently relaunched “2fm” – an endeavor by RTÉ to exploit the as of late left Superpirates. He then introduced the Gareth O’Callaghan in the Early evening show which was comparative in subject, tone and content to the Steve Wright in the Early evening show on BBC Radio 1 of the last part of the 1980s and mid 1990s. This show was a colossal achievement acquiring O’Callaghan far reaching notoriety all over Ireland by offering a brand and style of business radio that was more suggestive of Radio Nova in Dublin at the actual level of its ubiquity.
O’Callaghan left RTÉ 2fm’s midday show, having recently introduced the morning meal show on the station (supplanting Ian Dempsey). Subsequent to leaving 2fm, O’Callaghan got some down time from radio to seek after a vocation in brain research prior to being named moderator of the morning meal show on Galway Narrows FM. On 27 February 2009 Gareth sent off Ireland’s freshest business free Semi public radio broadcast 4fm(now called Ireland’s Exemplary Hits Radio) where he was the morning show have prior to moving to the midday space.
Before Gay Byrne’s retirement from The Gay Byrne Show in 1998, he was helped a piece by O’Callaghan yet O’Callaghan left him in the wake of getting exhausted and went to RTÉ 2fm all things considered. Des Cahill needed to help Byrne after that.
In 2010, O’Callaghan took a stand in opposition to cocaine utilize following the passing of Gerry Ryan, a previous partner and companion. He recognized that he had known about Ryan’s cocaine use for quite some time and got analysis and terrorizing subsequent to talking about this openly. In January 2022 it was declared the Gareth was to get back to broadcasting, explicitly to Exemplary Hits Radio, to introduce a Saturday morning radio program.