My Life with Úna Keating: I'll never forget a bare-bottomed patient's escape from hospital

Artist Úna Keating reflects on one unforgettable night in the early 90s when a post-op patient escaped — hospital gown and all
My Life with Úna Keating: I'll never forget a bare-bottomed patient's escape from hospital

Artist Úna Keating at her studio in Crookstown, Co. Cork. Picture: David Creedon

“HE’S gone, he’s gone.”

A pyjama-clad gent gesticulated wildly, piercing the silence of a normally uneventful post-surgical ward. 

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