In Improving With Age Professor Risteard Mulcahy explores how exercise is increasingly important as we grow older. His account of his own involvement in running, cycling and exercising is both practical, inspiring and amusing. This part memoir part practical guide is organized into three sections covering the importance of exercise, practical advice on exercise and most candidly the author's own experience with fitness in later life - he started jogging at fifty-one and ran his first marathon at sixty-one."

This candid examination by campaigner, Irish Heart Foundation founder and former St Vincent's consultant cardiologist Risteard Mulcahy looks back and forward at the Irish health system and its evolution, current difficulties and probable future state. Is The Health Service for Healing? is an honest and often critical examination of the way the Irish health system has evolved and the difficulties it finds itself in now. As Prof. Risteard Mulcahy spent most of his professional life as a consultant in St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin he is uniquely placed to comment on the health system's...

This is the autobiography of one of the most renowned and ground-breaking physicians Ireland has ever produced, Risteard Mulcahy -- internationally-renowned cardiologist and health campaigner, researcher, historian, exercise enthusiast and environmentalist.Medical Maverick offers a unique and often surprising insight into the rich, varied and extraordinary life of one of the most prominent, respected and outspoken medical men in Ireland. As the son of a well-known politician and national military hero, some might think Risteard Mulcahy's life would have been one of comfort and privilege --...