Working Life: I'm a community midwife — I love the variety of the job 

Fiona Walsh, clinical nurse manager and longest-serving community midwife

Fiona Walsh, clinical nurse manager and longest-serving community midwife.  Photograph Moya Nolan

“I took the scenic route to community midwifery, starting by enrolling in arts at university, before dropping out after a summer in the US. I then tried veterinary nursing and loved it, but the income in those days was meagre.

“After working for a time as a healthcare assistant in a private convalescent home, I followed my two sisters into nursing and did my general training in the Mater in Dublin, before heading to work in Britain, where I got a taste for midwifery.