Mr Darach Crimmins

Mr Crimmins is the director of the neurosurgical training programme in Ireland.  Since January 2010, he has also worked as a consultant paediatric neurosurgeon at CHI at Temple Street, Beaumont Hospital and CHI at Crumlin.

Prior to that, he practised as a Consultant Paediatric Neurosurgeon at Leeds General Infirmary from 2005 to 2010. He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin in 1993 and underwent his core surgery training in Dublin, Drogheda, Glasgow and London between 1994 and 1998. His general neurosurgical training was in Sheffield and Hull from 1998 to 2004. In 2004, he was an associate specialist in paediatric neurosurgery at Hôpital Necker Enfants Malades, Paris undertook a fellowship in paediatric neurosurgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London in 2005. 

Mr Crimmins runs the audit of all paediatric neurosurgical activity for the UK and Ireland for the British Paediatric Neurosurgery Group. He teaches paediatric neurosurgery on annual courses of the European Association of Neurological surgeons and the European Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery Group. He has published widely in the neurosurgical literature on management of brain tumours, hydrocephalus and other neurosurgical problems in children