“I left home in Mitchelstown, Co Cork, aged 17 to train as a nurse in Dublin. I was a child of the ’80s, and at that time, you took the first offer that came along. Fortunately, healthcare was my passion from day one.
“My identical twin sister Dervila and I trained in Crumlin Children’s Hospital and St James’s Hospital. We were two of the first paediatric intensive care nurses trained in Ireland.
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