John Browne: Time for a single-tier, fully funded, public healthcare system

In many ways, this has been a great time to be Irish. Rich and poor, urban and rural, public and private, we are all playing our part.

Professor John Browne: "We suddenly realise that all those small hospitals we routinely denigrated as 'not fit for purpose', are a vital part of our health infrastructure." File picture.

The coronavirus crisis opens up a window of opportunity for us to finally make the right decisions in Ireland writes Professor John Browne

Once a week I leave my family home in the countryside outside Kinsale and head into the local supermarket in Carrigaline.