Profile Tony O’Brien: The fire fighter

Tony O'Brien

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Age:52

Appearance: bespectacled, serious

Newsworthiness: the director general of the HSE is trying to defuse the trolley crisis that escalated last week. With a general election looming, the government and ambitious Minister for Health Leo Varadkar can ill afford a storm of negative headlines in the run-up to a general election

On the day that Tony O’Brien was appointed director general of the HSE in 2012, the city of London was showcasing ...