‘Thank you, Dr Neligan, for saving my father’
He performed Ireland’s first heart transplant in 1985, they said. He was involved in the establishment of the Blackrock Clinic in the mid-1980s, they noted. He was an uncompromising voice for improved health services for all in this country, they emphasised.
The points are valid, and worth remembering. But, like thousands of other people, for me the reason Dr Neligan should be mourned is far more simple.
