Seamus McManus
I’ve always been into the idea of a veterinary life from the time I started going out on calls at a young age with my uncle who practiced in Kerry. As kids, we spent the summers on a relative’s farm right up to the time I qualified. We were always in the midst of animals – dogs cats cows calves pigs horses.
Practice life started in Donegal, continued in Canada and in 1977 I bought a mixed practice in Galway with a colleague and began trading as Fitzgerald and McManus. I enjoyed practice very much most of the time but we had difficult days too and they are learning days!
Now, though retired, I have an abiding interest in the profession and what it contributes to society generally. What we do is important.
My passion is to see it develop in a sustainable way, to maintain and improve its standing in society, give its members a fulfilling, balanced life and its patients the best quality care possible.