A Co Cavan native has been announced as Grand Marshall of Waterford’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Originally from Cavan, Dr Morgan McMonagle is a vascular surgeon at University Hospital Waterford and the 2025 recipient of the RCSI Humanitarian and Community Award for his commitment and service to protecting the lives of others and the welfare of humanity.
While a consultant of trauma surgery at St Mary’s Hospital, London, and through lecturing in Imperial College London, Dr. McMonagle met Professor David Nott, a general and vascular surgeon who had experience volunteering in disaster and conflict zones and subsequently established the David Nott Foundation.
Dr McMonagle joined the David Nott Foundation, which trains doctors in countries impacted by conflict and catastrophes.
His first mission with the Foundation was in the West Bank in Palestine, he has since been to Ukraine on two occasions, once to Lebanon and more recently on two missions to Gaza.
