Aslan singer Christy Dignam has been diagnosed with cancer during hospital tests following a chest infection which progressed into pneumonia.
The 52-year-old Finglas native, who has led the Dublin five piece for 30 years, lost his mother to cancer last year. He is believed to be in The Mater Hospital undergoing tests to determine what parts of his body the cancer is affecting. It is understood the initial diagnosis is of Myeloma, a cancer that affects the plasma cells.
Dignam's wife Katherine and 26-year-old daughter Kiera issued the following statement on the band's Facebook page last night: "Christy was admitted to hospital last week with a suspected chest infection, this progressed into pneumonia.
"After numerous tests being carried out he has been diagnosed with cancer, he is to undergo treatment immediately and will be unable to perform until he is feeling better and doctors advise it is safe to do so.
"We would like to thank everyone for their well wishes and messages, we are trying to deal with this news and help him through his illness and hope fans will continue to be as supportive as they have always been.
"We would like to ask for some privacy at this time thank you Kathryn and Kiera Dignam and all the members and crew of Aslan."
Billy McGuinness, Aslan's keyboard player and guitarist, said the singer, "is holding up well".
"He is a fighter and has come through lots of things in his life and he will get through this too," he told The Star newspaper.
The band was due to play Cork this Saturday and Dublin's Olympia Theatre on St Patrick's Day.
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