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Ted Horgan
A Co. Cork farmer with Parkinson’s disease is upbeat about living with the fastest-growing neurological disease worldwide, despite having to change from suckler farming to a calf-to-beef enterprise because of the condition.
“Before being diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease I was a suckler farmer but due to the physical demands of suckling, eight years after diagnosis I reluctantly switched to a calf-to-beef enterprise on my 50ac holding, located at Riverstick, between Cork Airport and Kinsale in south Cork,” said Ted Horgan.
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects predominantly dopamine producing neurons in a specific area of the brain, the substantia nigra. The cause remains largely unknown.