Singer and environmentalist Feargal Sharkey has revealed he was diagnosed with prostate cancer last year.

The water campaigner told the Daily Express the health issue was “resolved” a year ago, and urged other men to get tested.

The diagnosis came after a visit to the doctor to seek treatment for a sore throat.

"My doctor, being the beautiful, wonderful, awkward, cantankerous old man that he is, went, ‘Oh Feargal, by the way, you’re 65 now, I’m going to run the full battery of tests, ‘” he said.

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