Past Speakers
IMO Doolin Memorial Lecture
Lecture Speakers 1964 - 2024
The Doolin Memorial Lecture has been delivered by speakers from a wide range of fields. They have come from the worlds of medicine, politics, sport and charitable organisations.
| 2024 | Dr Leo Varadkar – Healthcare Challenges | |
| 2023 | Dr Brian Turner – Paying the Piper or Cutting the Cloth: Funding the HSE into the Future | |
| 2022 |
Dr Ronan Glynn – In Defence of Uncertainty |
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| 2021 | Cancelled due to Covid | |
| 2020 | Cancelled due to Covid | |
| 2019 | Professor Brendan Kelly | |
| 2018 | Dr Austin O'Carroll | |
| 2017 | Dr Rhona Mahony | |
| 2016 | Professor Patrick Plunkett | |
| 2015 | Ms Margaret Murphy | |
| 2014 | Profess Aidan Halligan | |
| 2013 | Professor Freddie Wood | |
| 2012 | Dr Declan Bedford | |
| 2011 | Ms Emily O'Reilly, Ombudsman | |
| 2010 | Prof. Cillian Twomey | |
| 2009 | Ms Emily Logan, Ombudsman for Children | |
| 2008 | David Begg, General Secretary, ICTU | |
| 2007 | Fergus Finlay, CEO Barnardos | |
| 2006 | Prof. Marie Cassidy, State Pathologist | |
| 2005 | Mr. Sean Kelly, GAA President | |
| 2004 | Dr Joe Barry | |
| 2003 | Prof. Patrick Wall | |
| 2002 | Ms Liz O’Donnell T.D. | |
| 2001 | Dr Fenton Howell | |
| 2000 | Mr Donal J. Geaney | |
| 1999 | Mr Tony O’Connor | |
| 1998 | Dr Michael Boland | |
| 1997 | Prof. Muiris X. FitzGerald | |
| 1996 | Prof. Kevin O’Malley | |
| 1995 | Mr Michael Noonan T.D. | |
| 1994 | Mr Harold Browne | |
| 1993 | Dr James Walshe | |
| 1992 | Dr Seamus Healy | |
| 1991 | No lecture | |
| 1990 | Prof Davis Coakley | |
| 1989 | Dr Robert Holmes | |
| 1988 | Mr John Robb | |
| 1987 | Dr John Fleetwood | |
| 1986 | Dr P Anthony Farrelly | |
| 1985 | Mr John Hume M.E.P. | |
| 1984 | Dr Phelim Donnelly | |
| 1983 | Dr John Walsh | |
| 1982 | Prof. Eamon O’Dwyer | |
| 1981 | Dr Thomas Murphy | |
| 1980 | Prof. John B. Lyons | |
| 1979 | Dr Robert Holmes | |
| 1978 | Prof. William F. O’Dwyer | |
| 1977 | Prof. Michael P. Brady | |
| 1976 | Mr Francis A. Duff | |
| 1975 | Dr Henry E. Counihan | |
| 1974 | Prof. Oliver Fitzgerald | |
| 1973 | Mr John Kiely | |
| 1972 | Dr Arthur P. Barry | |
| 1971 | Dr Martin Dyar | |
| 1970 | Prof. David Mitchell | |
| 1969 | Mr John P. Shanley | |
| 1968 | Dr Edward T. Freeman | |
| 1967 | Dr John Mowbray | |
| 1966 | Dr Donough W. Macnamara | |
| 1965 | Mr Thomas G. Wilson | |
| 1964 | Mr Thomas L.J. O'Connell | |