Anto Finnegan: Taking it one day at a time

Former Antrim footballer Finnegan is battling motor neuron disease with dignity and courage

Anto Finnegan: the former Antrim footballer was diagnosed with motor neuron disease in 2012 Picture: Inpho

How are you?

It’s a question meant as much more than a greeting and gentle introduction. Anto Finnegan knows that by now and knows, too, that it’s layered and it’s deep and it’s searching and it’s hard.

How is his body? How is his mind? How is his wife? How are their kids?

You don’t need to say that last lot though.

“I’m okay, I guess, as good as I can be under ...