DJ and ex-election candidate reveals ‘valuable life lesson' he learned after month in hospital
DJ and former election candidate Niall Boylan has revealed how he 'learned a valuable life lesson' having spent nearly a month in hospital.
The 'shock jock' who had left his Classic Hits radio show, Nighttime Talks to run in the European Elections last year, told fans he was 'recovering slowly'.
Without referring to the reason why he ended up in hospital, he did say that over the last five months he had 'been unwell'.
'At one point, I was very ill and spent nearly a month in hospital,' he posted on X. 'My wife has been by my side and my support through it all.
Why am I telling you this? Because I've learned a valuable life lesson.'
He said the lesson he had learned was that 'many of those you thought cared about you couldn't give a s**t, and many people you least expected turned out to care the most.'.
'The other lesson is, don't always trust the medical profession. In my case, they had no idea what was wrong with me, even after literally hundreds of blood tests, CT scans, and ultrasounds, until I demanded certain specific blood tests (long story), and I was right.'
He added: 'Thankfully, I'm recovering, but it's a slow process and hard to deal with. I spent 60 years of my life feeling well, so to suddenly face multiple problems at once feels completely alien to me.
'You do wonder if you'll ever normal again.'
Last year, Boylan described his run for Europe as 'an experience of a lifetime' although he ultimately fell short, earning 50,416 votes.
He also ruled out a general election run despite having 'no doubt' he would be elected after just narrowly missing out on an MEP seat.
He laughed off the suggestion of launching a presidential run as he is 'very opinionated' and also ruled out running for European election again in five years' time.
'It was an amazing experience – and I kept the Green Party out. I was happy that I kind of upset the political establishment because I made it more difficult. There was about 50,000 votes that I took away from Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil. If I hadn't been there, they may have got the quota quicker.'
Boylan, who feels there should be stronger curbs on immigration into Ireland and believes people are sick of 'woke culture', said he knows some people view him as an extremist but denies that is the case.
'People think I'm some sort of radical right-winger, I'm not. I voted yes to marriage equality.'
He said he did feel that the EU was too left-wing.
'I think for far too long it's been far too left. I think that's going to change and you're going to see a shift slightly to the centre. I don't want to see a radical extreme right-wing Europe either.'
Boylan added that got a lot of abuse online during the campaign because of his outspoken views.
'I've been a pretty loud outspoken voice for 30 years on radio and I tend not to care what other people think of what I say. I'm not politically correct and I want to be a loud voice for people in Dublin and Ireland in Europe
'There was some really nasty stuff put up about me online, most of it, 99.99 percent, completely untrue. Some of it was derogatory and defamatory.
'I didn't react to it. You just can't have that kind of stuff knocking you off your target. I only realised [during the campaign] how toxic Twitter was, I knew it was toxic, but I didn't realise how toxic it was.'
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