The KCLR Daily with Brian Redmond
Oct 19, 2026 · 18 min · 10 segments
Micky McDonald – from Castlecomer is running the Dublin marathon next Sunday to raise funds for Spina Bifida Ireland. His youngest son Luka aged 4 was born with the condition. The staff at Temple…
Brian RedmondHostI suppose, come into this different stages of their life and then you're looking at it going, right, we're going to have two sons and my picture in my head was going to have the two boys, going to be able to go out and play soccer with them out the back garden, going to be able to go to the park with them the whole time.
And then all of a sudden when this sort of hits you you're looking at things completely different of how are we going to be able to go on family holidays? How are we going to be able to go to the local park? Is the park accessible? So
Your biggest challenges are the society, the built environments that Luca has been born into.
And he will be... independent man he doesn't want anyone doing anything firm he's grown up he's four now he's going before january he doesn't want he said he'll do everything himself yeah big
yeah yeah he'll tell you no i want to do that on my own but it's it's down to the small little things so like when we're off on weekends and we're trying to plan on where to go what we do we're constantly looking is this wheelchair accessible is he going to be able to take part in in pumpkin picking for Halloween.
Where are we going to go to see Santi? What's going to be, where is going to be accessible for him?
And I remember during the summer speaking to people, for example, during the heatwave who were learning to bring the kids to the beach, but like that they were selecting which beach they would go to.
You know, was there accessibility down onto the beach or were we faced with, you know, the arrival at the beach where all of the other kids would go running off towards the sea and I'd be left standing on the prom somewhere with the other child who is in the wheelchair.
He's not going to be able to use his wheelchair on the beach or use his walking frame on the beach.
I suppose, come into this different stages of their life and then you're looking at it going, right, we're going to have two sons and my picture in my head was going to have the two boys, going to be able to go out and play soccer with them out the back garden, going to be able to go to the park with them the whole time.
And then all of a sudden when this sort of hits you you're looking at things completely different of how are we going to be able to go on family holidays? How are we going to be able to go to the local park? Is the park accessible? So
Your biggest challenges are the society, the built environments that Luca has been born into.
And he will be... independent man he doesn't want anyone doing anything firm he's grown up he's four now he's going before january he doesn't want he said he'll do everything himself yeah big
yeah yeah he'll tell you no i want to do that on my own but it's it's down to the small little things so like when we're off on weekends and we're trying to plan on where to go what we do we're constantly looking is this wheelchair accessible is he going to be able to take part in in pumpkin picking for Halloween.
Where are we going to go to see Santi? What's going to be, where is going to be accessible for him?
And I remember during the summer speaking to people, for example, during the heatwave who were learning to bring the kids to the beach, but like that they were selecting which beach they would go to.
You know, was there accessibility down onto the beach or were we faced with, you know, the arrival at the beach where all of the other kids would go running off towards the sea and I'd be left standing on the prom somewhere with the other child who is in the wheelchair.
He's not going to be able to use his wheelchair on the beach or use his walking frame on the beach.
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