25th Jan 2021
Owen Gallagher was fifty-six when diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. On World Alzheimer’s Day his wife Carolann Duggan talked to Lia Hynes about his diagnosis and their lives together. This article was originally published in 2018
Until she met her husband Owen, Carolann Duggan had never thought of herself as the marrying type. “We met and married in the same year,” she recalls. “He was never due to marry, I was absolutely never due to marry. I was never going to have children; I got the snip when I was very young. I wanted to be free, single, independent.”