Precision Health delighted with ground naming rights partnership with Longford rugby club

Co-founder of Precision Health, Stephen Kelly said they are absolutely delighted to provide sponsorship to Longford RFC and he said the reason it was started was because of his daughter Rosie.

"Back in 2014 we had a diagnosis for our little young girl with autism, we had a non verbal daughter and we were in the middle of the recession.

"The government had taken 30% of our salaries off us and we nearly lost our house," he added.

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Mr Kelly recalled how he turned to his wife at that stage and informed her he was 'taking a punt'.

"I put €10,000 on the credit card and I opened Precision Health and we did our first screening back in 2014 to Hewlett Packard enterprise, it was really 670 of their employees for diabetes, cholesterol and numerous other illnesses.

"What we didn't know at the time was we were actually screening on behalf of Aviva Health Insurance at that moment in time and then really the blagger of the blagger got in with Aviva health insurance," he added.

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Mr Kelly said they now have a clinic in Ballymahon and in Dublin and "they provide all of the wellness services for Irish Life health along with [their] corporate clients".

He stated they are the first company in Ireland to provide skin cancer screening services and cancer screening services and they are now setting up the first cardiology rapid assessment screening clinic for the Midlands in Ballymahon.

Mr Kelly said they will be able to screen for heart disease, palpitations and hypertension and the clinic will open this week.

"We think this is going to be a huge thing at Precision and moving forward we are going to be providing more and more services out of Ballymahon to the Midlands from a clinical point of view.

"I know it's hard to get a GP and get seen by your GP so the talk is we will provide advanced practitioner services such as nurses who have advanced skills like myself who can prescribe, treat and see people and that is going to be open within the next six to eight months in Ballymahon."

Mr Kelly said his daughter Rosie began speaking 18 months ago but now she is telling him off.

"That's our driver and at Precision Health if we can help anybody on a neurodiversity aspect or even somebody who is shy and wants to play rugby we are happy to provide that support."