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Dr Lawlor co-founded a mental health charity, State of Mind Ireland, with her late brother, Dr Martin Lawlor, a leading consultant psychiatrist, in . ....
Dr Susan Lawlor has told The Kerryman that those who loved her brother - Dr Martin Lawlor, one of the top psychiatric consultants in Britain and Ireland - must forever live with the tragic irony that a man who devoted himself to helping the most vulnerable was himself left to die on the side of a road. ....
The late Dr Martin Lawlor Judge Ó Donnabháin rejected Mr McSweeney s explanation that he had panicked in leaving the scene and described his actions as callous. He acknowledged Mr McSweeney s guilty plea to failing to stop his vehicle after the incident; failing to keep his vehicle at the scene; failing to report the incident to gardaí and failing to give appropriate information to gardaí. He also noted his remorse, lack of previous convictions, and voluntary surrender of his driving licence, but he felt the seriousness of the offence and the pain it caused to Martin Lawlor s loved ones merited a custodial sentence. ....
A retired taxi driver was jailed for four years for his callousness in driving away from the scene of an accident in which an eminent psychiatrist suffered fatal injuries. Denis McSweeney (75) of Pouladuff Road in Cork was jailed as a judge was told he had panicked and left the scene at the Airport Road after Dr Martin Lawlor (49) had been struck by his taxi while walking back to his hotel. Judge Sean O Donnabháin rejected the explanation at Cork Circuit Criminal Court - and said leaving the scene of such an accident was tantamount to callousness . The Lawlor family told the former taxi driver they would never forgive him for leaving the doctor dying on the roadside. ....