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AN AMERICAN NEWS anchor has told his audience live on air that he is suffering from ALS, a condition from which there is “no cure”.
In the segment, Larry Stogner informed his viewers that he would soon be bringing his career in broadcast journalism to and end after discovering he had the condition – sometimes referred to as Lou Gehrig’s disease.
Stogner has been with the ABC 11 since 1976 and announced his retirement from the station last Friday.
The news anchor opened his address by drawing attention to a change in his voice that some viewers had noticed, before going on to say:
Some of you may remember me taking the ALS Ice Bucket challenge back in the summer. It was great fun plus it helped to raise over $100 million. Little did I know it was about to change my life. There is no cure. My career in broadcast journalism is coming to an end.
Last year more than €1.6 million was raised in Ireland for ALS sufferers by those doing the Ice Bucket challenge.
Stogner went on to say he has been “blessed to have had the best job in the world” and thanked viewers for their company during his time with the station.
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And while they were busy slapping each other on the back ,this is what happened .The sooner the better Zappone and her do gooders clique remember these youths are criminals and will inhabit our prisons in the future , then we might have a better chance of tackling crime.
@Just Me: the on demand generation need to start understanding what personal responsibility means. Then again not many so in the country
How many well off, especially the private educated FG supporters have a future in prison? FG have no problem spending fortune keeping people on jail but won’t spend a tiny fraction of that to house the poor leading to homeless future and despair leading to crimes that we all suffer from with a huge hyped up crime fear driven by the media business selling papers and fear especially that owned by a certain FG loving billionaire who’s tribunal findings against him have not been acted on since Enda became Taoiseach in 2011
@abcyz: 300,000 per “child” per annum
Can’t believe the Journal has not covered the ST John of God Audit as covered in today’s Irish Mail on Sunday. € 6 million and the CEO got over €2 million. Be true to your values. It is NEWS and much bigger than Console last year
@PVD: ah they only like headlines of that nature when it involves the guards
@PVD: I know, I work for this organisation and it infuriates me. The children and ordinary staff members have suffered so much from the cutbacks meanwhile the fat cats get fatter
They need to be treated like the criminals they are .. regardless of their age .
Didn’t the Journal publish an article earlier in the week saying everything was fine in Oberstown.
Since then there has been at least two articles saying different.
@MyBrokenKnees: obviously fake news.
No incidents in 7 months……this should read …no incidents that got media coverage. …
More diatribe…..
It’s suddenly a “Challenging Environment” now that he has been assaulted.But when ordinary staff were being assaulted everything was hunky dory.
Get the prison officers in there . Enough love dovey don’t work with these criminals that’s what they are. Will be in mount joy in a few years mark my words. Also make parents responsible for the children actions.
Katherine Zappone and Frances Fitzgerald maybe even Leo should work 2 or 3 days in a remand centre and then decide what needs to be done
You might come back into planet reality now . Criminals not children
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