€1m donation leads to Ireland’s first chair of neonatology

The donation from UCC alumnus Daragh Horgan and his wife Anne has led to the appointment of Ireland’s first chair of neonatology

Prof Geraldine Boylan, director of the Infant Centre, UCC; Prof John O’Halloran, interim president of UCC; Prof Eugene Dempsey, the new Horgan Chair in Neonatology, Infant Centre, UCC; and Professor Helen Whelton, head of the College of Medicine and Health, UCC. Picture: Donagh Glavin

A couple’s €1m donation to a health research centre which focuses on pregnancy, birth and early childhood has led to the appointment of Ireland’s first chair of neonatology.

University College Cork’s Infant Research Centre, based at Cork University Maternity Hospital, has announced that consultant neonatologist Prof Eugene Dempsey has been appointed to the Horgan Chair in Neonatology – named after UCC alumnus Daragh Horgan and his wife Anne.