Meet the 75-year-old retired GP joining the fight against coronavirus. He's got a pacemaker, is fitted with a stent in his heart, and his family would prefer to lock him indoors, but Ken Egan is coming out of retirement to help battle Covid-19.
The retired GP from the village of Ballindine in Co Mayo is one of more than 50,000 people who answered the call from the HSE and Health Minister Simon Harris looking for healthcare workers to fight the outbreak.
He told RTÉ's This Week programme: "It's second nature to me after all the years in practice to want to come back and help people and I would expect the same of all the GPs who are retired." Dr Egan, 75, was around in the 1950s when an outbreak of tuberculosis in the country claimed tens