Bonesetter Jimmy Heffernan, Drangan, Co. Tipperary, Ireland 1967

Thousands of people have been travelling to Drangan in County Tipperary to avail of the healing touch of a bonesetter.
A bonesetter is a practitioner of joint manipulation, a skill that is instinctual rather than learned.
You couldn’t train for it, you couldn’t learn manipulation.
Jimmy Heffernan is sometimes called an osteopath or a chiropractor, or even by the less complimentary term quack. However he is not bothered by the terminology.
"I wouldn’t mind the Dickens what they call me."
After practising on farm animals and minor breaks in humans, Jimmy left farm work to concentrate on bone setting full-time. Many of his clients would visit him before considering going to a doctor and his success rate proves he is anything but fraudulent. One farmer cured by Jimmy says,
I was crippled walking into him but when I came out I was able to jump about.
Jimmy Heffernan does not advertise his services and charges no more than a pound per session, often providing his care free of charge. He has no problem with doctors and 80% of them are positive about what he can do for patients.
In spite of working by instinct rather than by scientific knowledge, Jimmy is keen to point out he knows exactly what he is doing and his patients are not in any danger.
A ‘Newsbeat’ report by Bill O’Herlihy broadcast on 17 January 1967.

[@gerardwalsh4346]

I was treated by Jimmy Heffernan for a sprained ankle c. 1965. We lived about six miles from his house. It was considered quite normal to go to the bonesetter for certain issues. In most cases first resort...not last resort....He was regarded as an expert on slipped discs. I believe that some doctors even referred patients to him.

[@edmundpower1250]

What's an osteopaths chat up line "What's a joint like this doing in a girl like you?"

[@missadda8890]

My father had a slipped disc and was out of work for months he decided to go see Mr. Heffernan my mother drove us up from Cork he fixed my fathers back would only take a half crown and my father drove home a new man my father told that story many a time fond memories.

[@bobertkallahan4392]

I’m sure he was skipping home after seeing Mr. Heffernan god bless

[@SusanneWuthrich]

My Father was in the same boat in feeling, just in a different Illusion on Swiss Grounds. 0:11

[@SusanneWuthrich]

@@bobertkallahan4392 My father choose to trust my mother even if it meant Cold War with his father in the same House.

[@walshjoseph7991]

Anyone rememember Bolger? in Carrick on Suir working from the back of his sisters old shop. He put in horses hips/stifles with a mallet and did my ankle twice; big man wearng a hat. My father was cured by Dr Bowers around 1918 .....his leg was for amputation because of Osteomolitis .....but got a herbal cure from Bowers; His brother Michael was cured of jaundice by same Dr Bowers. I think he was in Pilltown or Fiddown, there was queueq of horses and traps waiting outside, as my grand mother travelled by horses and trap from a long distancce she was allowed jump up the queue. Westill use the herbal jaundice recipe today

[@seamusdavis9441]

Yes. He was there every Friday as that was the mart day in Carrick-on-Suir. I think he lived near Slievenamon.

[@brianallen858]

Dan O Neill was a very good bone setter

[@joanofarc708]

Is he still alive

[@michaelf4506]

This is the way it was until about 20 years ago now there's physios on every corner

[@clacicle]

Not all physios are bonesetters.

[@dechannigan2980]

It's akin to the psychic surgeon phenomenon in Brazil

[@georgel74]

Very articulate man interviewed by the bould Bill o Herlihy..

[@finolaomurchu8217]

I was wondering, the voice familiar, but he's so young, didn't recognise him.

[@burntbacon7995]

Shite off.

[@georgel74]

There was a lady bonesetter in Dungarvan Waterford called Miss Towler if I remember correctly..

[@joenavanodo3780]

A remarkable and gentle man. In fact, I found it remarkable how his patients spoke so softly, almost with reverence for his healing power.

[@finolaomurchu8217]

If someone can relieve pain, in a person, who has chronic pain, they are gifted. Very special.

[@haimbenavraham1502]

I hope there will be a generation to come, that will retain his gift.

[@rickster5120]

Well struggled to walk across the yard at his place ..25 years ago...but he fixed my back and I walked completely sorted back to the car...it was nothing short of miraculous ..people in Cashel swore by him and I certainly wouldn't argue ...God rest him

[@kierankkilmartin]

i had a slipped disc in 1968, was in agony for months, went to this man, had to be carried in there, ten minutes later, walked out a new man, could even bend down and touch my toes.

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[@seandelap8587]

The one and only Bill O Herlihy.

[@jamescornflake1542]

More in the phone book)))

[@yankeeskunkee8519]

I call him Dr. LOVE!

[@JDLeonard74]

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[@jamescornflake1542]

Nicely cut in the end. I nearly dropped me cup a tea!!

[@dancingfrogable]

We could use a few good bone setters from Ireland here in Seattle!

[@davomccranko]

Any good bone setters today?

[@jamescornflake1542]

Ask Tiger Woods)))

[@Israbintali]

I’m a bonesetter. And wellknown in the Netherlands

[@Karl_with_a_K]

Okey dokey!

[@reidspeed77]

🦉☘❗

[@ciaran5588]

Is anyone thinking this video is missing banjo music & an interview with the "Driver Brothers"........?

[@hugostiglitz6914]

He's not an Osteopath or a chiropractor, he's an Osteopractorquack!😂.