Dublin

I spent six years at UCD medical school in Dublin to become a doctor followed by four years in hospital specialities and then into GP training finally qualifying as a GP after 11 years of study. I remember going into one of my final exams on paediatrics thinking that my brain wasn’t big enough to hold all the information I was expected to know. Of course accumulating information was the least part of my training as the next steps of mastering the skills required followed by the many years of experience needed was a greater challenge.

Micheál Martin said Dublin’s support for the cancer centre and stent unit at Altnagelvin was ‘very significant for people in Donegal’ after Peadar Tóibín said cross-border cooperation on health was ‘minute and glacial’.