‘Room to Improve’ presenter suffered pulmonary embolism while on family holiday

Dermot Bannon says his health scare has prompted him to live in the moment

Dermot Bannon says his health scare has prompted him to live in the moment

Architect Dermot Bannon has said he is a changed man a year on from suffering a life-threatening pulmonary embolism.

“It’s like living a parallel life because I’m on medication now for life,” he said. “You kind of think you’re infallible and these things happen to other people. When it happened to me, it took a while to sink in what’s actually happened.