Heart Bea‪t‬

Maurice Neligan enjoyed a long and distinguished career as Ireland’s leading heart surgeon. He had many groundbreaking firsts to his credit, including performing the Republic’s first heart transplant operation in 1985. On his retirement, he began to write a column, Heart Beat, weekly for The Irish Times Health Supplement. This selection of Maurice’s columns reflects his interests and passions, among them the health service, his family and social life and medical training.