Podcast: Athlone resident talks about his heart attack in March and the medical care that saved him

An Athlone resident who survived a heart attack in March of this year is appealing to other men to take heed if they feel “something” might not be right.

Patrick Doyle who’s originally from Leixlip began to feel unwell as he sat in his car outside his home in Monksland on a Monday morning and actually had a heart attack just a short time later as he attended the local primary care centre.

Patrick says he was very lucky to have had the immediate care at the primary care centre, and then in the Air Ambulance which brought him to hospital in Galway in just 20 mins.

Patrick spoke to Anne Norris on the Let’s Talk show today about how that Monday morning last March began like just any other..