'True visionary' — Tributes paid to Cork-born Professor Michael O'Keeffe

Prof O’Keeffe co-founded the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and was president of Vision Sports Ireland

Professor Michael O'Keeffe was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital and Beacon Hospital in Dublin. He had also worked at the National Maternity Hospital, the Rotunda hospital and CHI at Temple Street.

Tributes have been paid to Professor Michael O’Keeffe who has passed away, with colleagues remembering him as a “true visionary” in the medical world.

Originally from Ballylough, Mitchelstown, he was an ophthalmic surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital and Beacon Hospital in Dublin. He had also worked at the National Maternity Hospital, the Rotunda hospital and CHI at Temple Street.