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Looking for recommendations: new GP in Maynooth

  • 04-04-2011 11:49am
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22


    Hi,

    We've been going to Dr G's practice in the Glenroyal SC since we moved here 5 years ago, but I really want to change. I liked the female Dr (Maguire) who was there for a while but I think she's gone again. We've 2 kids, a toddler and a 9 year old, so would like a Dr who's good with children (lots of experience with ear infections etc). It would have to be someone who opens on evenings & weekends. I've done a search on the forum but the threads are old and I know things have probably changed since 2008!

    Many thanks :)


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 19,019 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    I find primacare good and good for the kids.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Staplor


    Have found the one on Main St to be a disaster for the past 2 years, can't get a call back from a doctor, can't get blood results, can't have blood results posted to me, plus the snottiest young one of a receptionist I've ever encountered. Seriously she's like one of those old school doctors receptionists with a serioius superiority thing going on.

    Have I had trouble there - yes. Have I changed doctors - yes. I'm now with the Leinster Clinic out past the college on the Kilcock Rd (recommended to me by my sister in law who has 3 kids), not great opening hours, but I can get a phone call from a doctor and have had no issues. They book you in by appointment too, so if you ring at 9am, they'll book you in for 10am and no sitting in a waiting room all morning :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    We're with Dr. O'Rourke in Kingsbry. Been with him for years now - he's great with the kids. He is open Saturday mornings and some evenings.

    http://www.orourke.ie/Opening%20Hours.html


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 454 ✭✭Italia


    +1 for Dr Neville Wilson of Leinster clinic.
    No waiting about.
    Honest, straight to the point and no bullsh1t
    Not afraid to examine you properly & 'get his hands dirty' (unlike the idiot in Celbridge).
    Doesn't waste your money in useless treatments.

    Only downside is the hours, but if you have a REAL problem he will visit you beyond normal hours as well (personal experience of this).


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,148 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I've used Christy O'Rourke since I was a kid myself, he does have a female GP in the practice too but I can't remember her name as the one that was there for ages moved out to Johnstownbridge IIRC.

    The surgery on the main street is in a bit of a flux at the moment due to the main GP there dying; the other GP was his wife so... last time I checked it was just locum GPs so you'd have very little continuity.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,136 ✭✭✭Staplor


    I've been having issues with the one on the Main St for years, finally their ultra low prices €30 a visit weren't enough to keep me going back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    MYOB wrote: »
    I've used Christy O'Rourke since I was a kid myself, he does have a female GP in the practice too but I can't remember her name as the one that was there for ages moved out to Johnstownbridge IIRC.

    It's Claire O'Neill - but she's only there one or two days a week iirc


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 102 ✭✭Fragglefur


    Dr Neville Wilson in Leinster Clinic. Lovely man, very patient and understanding. Great with children and seems to really care.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,148 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Macros42 wrote: »
    It's Claire O'Neill - but she's only there one or two days a week iirc

    She was the one that moved, unless she's back...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    She never 100% left. She still covered occasionally. But now she's rostered.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 72,148 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Shows how rarely I'm in there!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 jccf2003


    This is fantastic, thanks a million for all the recommendations :) We're closer to Kingsbry so we'll probably try Dr O'Rourke because of that and the opening hours.

    Many thanks again!


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