Cork priest recovers in no time after ‘bikini hip op’

He’s a priest known for breaking the mould so it’s somehow befitting that Fr Liam Kelleher was one of the first to undergo a novel form of surgery with an equally novel name — the ‘bikini hip replacement’.

Performed through the bikini line and purported to result in quicker recovery times, less pain, and minimal scarring, the operation has a new poster boy in Fr Kelleher.

Within a day of surgery at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork, Fr Kelleher was walking “with no real pain compared to when I had my other hip replaced nine years ago”, he says.