Deep down, Orla Marron recognised the symptoms. She was experiencing numbness and pain. The headaches were excruciating. She was tired to the point she could barely function.

Everything she was experiencing pointed to Multiple Sclerosis, an illness her mother was living with and a condition Ms Marron (37) knew all too well.

“It got to the point where I just knew something was wrong,” Ms Marron, from Co Monaghan, said.

“I should have gone to see my GP sooner, but I put it off, probably because I knew what it was. I had symptoms, but I put it down to life being extremely busy.

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“I had two young children, I had just gone back to full-time work and we were moving into our forever home. I suppose I found ways of explaining away the symptoms because I didn’t want to go to the doctors and find out what was happening.

“When it got to the point where I couldn’t ignore things anymore I went to see my GP and I just said, ‘I think I have MS’.”