Shape I'm In; Dr Ciara Kelly on her prescription for success

DR CIARA Kelly has her own prescription for success. Determined to live life to the full, she looks not to her contemporaries for inspiration but to Dr William Wilde, a 19th-century surgeon.

The plaque outside the house where he lived on Merrion Rd, Dublin, points to an accomplished medic and a man

with many interests. Father to the famed writer Oscar, he is described as an “aural and ophthalmic surgeon, archaeologist, ethnologist, antiquarian, biographer, statistician, naturalist, topographer, historian, folklorist”.