DANIEL REVEALS HOW HE WROTE CANCER SONG JUST MONTHS BEFORE WIFE MAJELLA WAS DIAGNOSED

Daniel O’Donnell has revealed how he wrote a song about battling cancer just months before his wife Majella was struck down with the illness.

Daniel and Majella

The singer raised thousands of euro when he recorded the charity song for Donegal cancer charity Relay for Life.

Daniel became patron for the charity in June 2012 and joined hundreds of other volunteers on a 24 hour relay to celebrate the fight against cancer.

Daniel sat down with songwriter Marc Roberts to pen the song ‘I’ll See This Journey Through” especially for people battling cancer.

But just months after performing at the event, Daniel discovered that Majella had developed breast cancer.

Daniel revealed “It’s amazing I suppose how things come in life. I never imagined when I wrote the song ‘I’ll See This Journey Through” that it would be Majella’s journey and indeed my journey my journey so soon after we had it written,” he said.

Majella has raised the profile of cancer sufferers and also €600,000 for the Irish Cancer Society when she had her hair shaved on the Late Late Show.

Daniel and Majella are expected to appear at the 24 hour Relay for Life event which takes place in Letterkenny on May 31st.