Healthy interest in HSE’s top post

DESPITE outgoing chief executive of the HSE Brendan Drumm openly admitting to struggling with the high profile-nature of the job, 34 people have applied to take up his €320,000-a-year basic salary post.

The Irish Medical Times has reported that 30 external candidates have applied, with a further four coming from within the Irish health service.

While the HSE has declined to confirm the identities of the candidates, it is understood at least one of these Irish-based contenders is among Prof Drumm’s “kitchen cabinet” of national directors.