classmates for a 55th year reunion. The day after his death he had been expected to address GPs in Kilkenny. Fine Gael health spokesperson Dr. James Reilly said "medicine has lost a great pioneer and a leading thinker". In July 2012, the Mater Foundation, together with the Neligan family, established the Maurice Neligan Tribute Fund in recognition of his great achievements during the years he served with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital. The Mater Foundation plans to raise €700,000 from this Fund to purchase a core piece of equipment called a Zeego-CArm and thus enable the first Hybrid Theatre in a public hospital in Ireland, which will be named the Maurice Neligan Heart & Vascular Theatre. References External links "Maurice and Pat Neligan" – Miriam Meets... "At Home with Maurice Neligan" – Would You Believe "The Mater Foundation Tribute Funds Appeal" 1937 births 2010 deaths People educated at Blackrock College Alumni of University College Dublin Irish cardiac surgeons Medical doctors from Dublin (city)