Dr. Brendan Cuddihy

Dr Cuddihy has 37 years of experience as a GP, having founded a practice in Greystones in 1987. Dr Cuddihy has a special interest in end of life care, sparked by a teaching session for trainee GPs which was addressed by Dr John McCarthy of Our Lady’s Hospice in 1986. Since then he has attempted to bring quality end of life care to his patients throughout his career.

Early on in his career in Wicklow, through the auspices of the local Bray Clinical Society, Dr. Cuddihy advocated for the appointment of the first Palliative Care nurses in the county and subsequently brought together a number of people who were keen that Wicklow patients would experience the same quality of end of life care as patients across the county border in South Dublin. As such, the Wicklow Hospice Foundation emerged and a group of volunteers grew a large campaign which culminated in the opening of Wicklow Hospice in 2020. Dr Cuddihy was chair of this group for the first nine years of the campaign.

Aside from medical matters he has been involved in Sports medicine throughout his career and has served on numerous boards, at club and county level, of the GAA.For 18 years Dr Cuddihy has been a voluntary medical officer with the Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes.