Gerry Brady competed in the men's skeet shooting at the 1968 Mexico City Olympic Games, finishing 38th - the highest-placed of the three Irish shooters - and making history by firing the first shots in the history of Olympic skeet, as the first competitor to step to the line in what was the event's Olympic debut.
A pioneering orthopaedic surgeon who graduated from the RCSI in 1949, Brady became the first Irishman to take the MCh (Orthopaedics) from the Liverpool School of Orthopaedics. He was appointed orthopaedic surgeon to Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children when it opened in 1956, establishing the orthopaedic department in Ireland's largest children's hospital, and joined the staff of Jervis Street Hospital in 1961. His surgical expertise extended beyond human medicine - in 1967 he presented to the British Veterinary Association on surgery for fractures of long bones in horses.
Like his shooting colleagues, Brady delayed his departure to Mexico for professional commitments and paid his own travel expenses. He went on to compete at the Munich 1972 Olympics.
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