Dr Tony Holohan, Chief Medical Officer
Ladies and Gentlemen – please give a hand for your Chief Medical Officer
By Contributor
7th May 2021
The role of CMO has increased in profile in the last year. It was always meant for the backroom writes
Charles Lysaght
A feature of the Coronovirus crisis has been the emergence of the Chief Medical Officer of the Department of Health,
Dr Tony Holohan and his deputy
Dr Ronan Glynn, as a major national figures giving advice in public that has not always been that welcome to the government. Speaking for their Department, they have dwarfed their minister, and there has been no Secretary-General in sight.