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Limerick’s virtual hug for Dr Motherway as consultant is named Limerick Person of the Year 2020
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AT 9.10am on this soggy, blustery, first Monday morning in May, Dr Catherine Motherway stands on the balcony outside the Pegasus Suite of the Clayton Hotel Limerick with a heavy piece of crystal in hand.
Four nights ago, the head of the Intensive Care Unit at University Hospital Limerick was named Limerick Person of the Year for 2020. But a virus called Covid means it is only now that the actual award presentation is taking place. 
Having just come off on-call duty, the mother-of-two who is the past president of the Intensive Care Society, is heading back home to County Galway with her new title. But this Cork native doesn’t do airs or graces - her day job is saving lives, after all.  ....

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