Norbert Lynch
HIS colleagues in Lisnaskea Health Centre, doctors, nursing and administration staff, and his many former patients and friends are mourning the death at his home at Ballyhullagh, Lisnaskea on Sunday morning last of Dr Norbert Lynch.
He is immediately survived by his wife, Liz, by his four children, Thomas, John, Anne and David and by his father,Tommy.
He was pre-deceased 11 years ago by his wife, Rosemary, the mother of his four children, and by his mother, Kathleen Lynch, Oldcastle, County Meath.
He is further survived by his brothers and sisters, Noel, Frankie, Maura, Philip, Ann and Breda.
As a mark of respect, Lisnaskea Health Centre operated with a reduced staff yesterday morning while they attended the funeral Mass in St Patrick’s Church, Donagh, with burial following in St Colmcille’s Cemetery, Kells, County Meath.
There was an impressive turn-out of present and former staff, and his former patients, among them Dr Miriam Dolan, a native of the Netherlands who worked alongside Dr Lynch in the Maple Group practice for some 12 years before he retired on health grounds in 2009.
She was then a newly qualified doctor.
“He was a very pleasant man, and very supportive to me, but that was the way he was with all his colleagues. He took you the way you are, no judgement and, in the practice he was very important because he was always into progressive changes and how the practice could benefit from those changes.”
Dr Dolan – whose husband, Malachy is from Garrison – said Dr Lynch was a dedicated doctor who was highly respected by his colleagues and patients alike.
And, she said she and all those who worked alongside him were aware why he retired in 2009, having been diagnosed with MS.
“That was a big blow for Norbert and for the rest of us because he would say you will probably have to drag me out of the practice. He absolutely loved the work.”
In all, Dr Lynch served for some 25 years as a GP in the practice.
Outside of his family and his work, he was a keen member of Lisnaskea Bridge Club, and something of a fitness enthusiast, being a regular user of the local Castle Park Centre.
At the family’s request, donations in lieu were directed to the Multiple Sclerosis Society, care of Swift &McCaffrey, funeral undertakers, Lisnaskea.
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