TV star Brendan Courtney told how he wants to marry his long term partner of five years after discovering Adam Maryniak has a secret pension.
The RTE star was an outspoken activist in the run up to the 2015 marriage equality referendum but insisted tying the knot wasn’t for him.
The 46-year old fashion designer joked he was secretly hoping Adam would propose on a recent holiday.
Brendan told the Irish Mirror: “I’m just back from holidays and the whole time I was there I was pretending that I was waiting on Adam to propose.
“But I’d never say never and I say to Adam as soon as his portfolio matches mine, I’ll consider marriage. But I’ve just discovered he has a huge pension so I’m dying to get married now.”
Famed for his hit authored documentary “We need to talk about Dad” which aired on RTE One in 2017, The TV star has been campaigning tirelessly for the government to recognise unpaid care workers.
He said: “I addressed the Dail, it’s about unpaid homecare, whether it’s an adult child looking after sick parents or whether it’s a parents looking after an adult child with special needs.
“There’s something like 200,000 people who are homecare workers who are unpaid.”
Since starting his advocacy work he’s proud that things have moved along quicker.
He said: “The first draft of the Homecare deal package which will be like the Fair Deal for nursing home care, a similar structure, you can borrow on the basis of your property, the pilot scheme will launch in January.
“It was changing and I was very public, so I’ve moved things a lot quicker. I’m very proud of my dad’s memory too he’d be delighted with that. He kind of did know we were addressing something unfair.”
The former Off the Rails star said thousands of families around the country have felt as powerless as him.
He said: “The whole shitstorm I felt was what every family goes through so that was not nice.”
But having his dad’s memory forever on celluloid is a gift he will be forever grateful for.
He said: “The actual making of the documentary and spending that time with my dad and my family was a pure gift.
“To have that on film forever, it was a beautiful thing for me and my family, it’s when telly does good and doesn’t exploit people. It’s put me on this path of advocacy so I’ll be doing a lot more.”
