'Lady Doctor Anne', a trailblazer who pioneered children’s care in Limerick

Eighty years since Limerick's first ever paediatrician set up shop in the city IT’S 80 years ago to the week since Limerick welcomed its first doctor specialising in childrens’ care. A three-line advert placed in the Limerick Leader edition of May 4, 1946, advised that Dr Anne McMahon had “ta