TAKE your pick of clichés about the apple not falling far from the tree. Or being a chip off the old block. It certainly applies to Heinrich Anhold.

Don’t be fooled by the name. Anhold is a born-and-bred Irishman but the pioneering spirit behind a revolutionary blood test that is causing a massive stir in America but is also used by the likes of Jim Bolger, David Pipe and Cian O’Connor, possesses a very German hue.