G-section: How a Cork-born doctor delivered a baby gorilla by caesarean

Not many men can claim to have helped impregnate a gorilla or to have delivered a primate by caesarean section, but David Cahill’s CV is fairly unique, even in the radical world of fertility medicine.

So far, so bizarre, particularly as David’s background is one of delivering human babies and treating human couples for fertility problems.

A consultant obstetrician/gynaecologist, originally from Donoughmore, Co Cork, David’s involvement with the largest living primates goes back over a decade.