Brian Millar and Niamh Highfield, who underwent nerve and tendon transfer surgery, with consultant plastic surgeon Kevin Cronin, consultant in rehabilitation medicine Dr Eimear Smith and consultant hand surgeon Gráinne Colgan. The then 22-year-old had spinal surgery at the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital in Dublin but ended up paralysed. “You don’t realise how much independence you’ve lost until you gain it back,” she says. Gráinne Colgan, consultant hand surgeon at the Mater hospital. “The fact that we do have something to offer, that really, really can be life changing, is something we just feel really strongly that we want to see available to those people,” she added.

Source: The Irish Times March 27, 2026 07:33 UTC