Fred O Donnell thought he was an only child.
For almost eight decades Fred O Donnell didn't know he had a brother.
And just four and a half years ago he finally met his long lost sibling Jimmy.
But sadly COVID-19 cut their time short as Jimmy passed away after contracting the illness.
It was Fred's daughter Theresa who helped reunite the brothers after she begun researching into her family tree which revealed her father wasn't a only child after all.
Both men end up in different parts of the UK, Fred married Theresa from Mountmellick, who died in 2007 while Jimmy never married
Mr O Donnell has been telling Midlands 103's Robert Fahy how meeting his brother Jimmy for the first time was the happiest day of his life:
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