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Claims Coombe trying to silence critic over vaccines Hospital seeking to ‘threaten’ consultant Deirdre Murphy, husband writes to Minister about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 2:31 Tom Fahey, a professor of general practice at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, has written to Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly complaining about the hospital’s treatment of his wife, Prof Deirdre Murphy. Photograph: Alan Betson Your Web Browser may be out of date...

Coombe vaccine controversy rumbles on with flurry of letters Fallout from Covid-19 jabs for staff relatives sparks criticism and counter-criticism about 3 hours ago Simon Carswell Public Affairs Editor Listen now 5:31 Prof Michael O’Connell, master of the Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital on Cork Street, Dublin. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/Collins Your Web Browser may be out of date. If you are using Internet Explorer 9, 10 or 11 our Audio player will not work properly.   The...

Consultant tells board of ‘serious errors of judgment’ at Dublin maternity hospital

In her April 7th letter, Prof Murphy said the master has “overall responsibility for the events relating to the vaccination of family members within the hospital and in a consultant’s home”. “This behaviour has been brought to the attention of the Medical Council and is likely to warrant a review process. He needs to stand aside in the best interests of the hospital,” she wrote. “It is the board’s responsibility to hold Dr O’Connell accountable for his actions as master/CEO. The board has not fulfilled its duty and, contrary to the recent statement, it ...

Local gardaí or fire brigade staff were not offered leftover Covid-19 vaccines by doctors in the Coombe Hospital who gave the jabs to their own families, an independent review revealed yesterday. Coombe master Prof Michael O Connell, who was among doctors who gave left-over Covid-19 vaccines to own family members, told the review he thought of offering them to local gardaí or fire brigade staff but did not suggest it to colleagues. Prof O Connell – referred to a consultant C – in the review report said he was concerned about consent as well as medical history of gardaí and members of ...