Shortage of GPs: ‘Lots of GPs will retire with no one to replace them’

GP Lucia Gannon fears for the future of rural doctors. She tells Áilin Quinlan the government must get to grips with the shrinking numbers of GPs that threaten the health of small communities across the country.

Bridget Mary Durkin hadn’t set foot outside her house for more than 30 years. Aged 83, she lived in a state of freezing squalor in a secluded farmhouse a few miles outside the Co Tipperary village of Killenaule.