| Maitiú Ó Tuathail | |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Occupation: | Doctor |
Maitiú Gearóid Ó Tuathail (born 1988 or 1989) is an Irish physician and former president of the National Association of General Practitioners.[1] [2]
Ó Tuathail grew up in Lettermore, County Galway.[3] [4] [5] He earned his medical degree from NUI Galway in 2011. He qualified as a general practitioner in 2018.[1] He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (MRCPI) in 2015. In 2018, he became a Member of the Irish College of General Practitioners (MICGP) and a Member of the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine (MFSEM) at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). In 2019, he graduated with a Master of Science in healthcare management from RCSI.
Ó Tuathail works as a general practitioner in Ranelagh.[3] [2] In 2017, he served as a lead NCHD.[5] In 2018, he was elected president of the National Association of General Practitioners (NAGP) at the age of 29.[3] [4] [5] He resigned from the NAGP in April 2019.[6]
In November 2020, Ó Tuathail settled a High Court action he had taken against entrepreneur Paddy Cosgrave. The defamation case arose from remarks Cosgrave made about Ó Tuathail on the social media platform Twitter in April 2020. Cosgrave deleted the comments and issued a public apology.[2]