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Ballot is mooted over IMO retrospective review
Dr Cathal O’Sullivan (left) and Dr Garrett McGovern at IMO House last year The National Council of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) is proposing that the decision over whether to proceed with a...
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Review costs ‘open-ended’
George McNeice, former IMO CEO The newly elected President of the IMO has warned that the cost of carrying out a retrospective review into the settlement with former CEO George McNeice and other...
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Bring on the clowns
Returning from his first trip to the circus in almost 30 years, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes he might have figured out where all the clowns may have gone in the interim. Regular readers will doubtless be...
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Standing up for what we believe
Dr Ali Al-Ekri Dr Ruairi Hanley is in praise of the views of Dr Dermot Ward and the ICGP on electroconvulsive therapy and the latest Gaza conflict, respectively. I would like to begin this week by...
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Former President of the IMO hands back her membership
Dr Ruairi Hanley Following the resignation of former IMO President Dr Paula Gilvarry, Dr Ruairi Hanley suggests the IMO could do more to stop the run of negative headlines and improve members’ morale....
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Narrow ‘no’ vote to IMO review into McNeice deal
George McNeice, former IMO CEO A ballot of IMO membership on whether the union should commission an independent review into aspects of the management of the organisation up to December 2012, when the...
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‘No’ vote has implications far beyond the IMO
Dr Ciara Kelly While it must be respected, the ballot result against holding an investigation into the management of the IMO prior to the departure of George McNeice will continue the erosion of public...
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A ‘No’ to an independent review
George McNeice Reflecting on the narrow IMO vote not to hold an independent review into ‘certain aspects of the management of the organisation up to December 2012’, Dr Ruairi Hanley is saddened by the...
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Sweeping problem under the carpet
Image: Getty Dear Editor, Dr Muiris Houston, writing in Irish Medical Times on October 17 last, draws attention to the implications of the recent close vote against a proper enquiry into the IMO CEO...
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Members at AGM query appointment of new CEO
Members at the AGM in Kilkenny IMO members are understood to have inquired into the possible appointment of a new CEO for the IMO to replace the former post holder Mr George McNeice, who left the union...
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Tackling the IMO’s legacy issues
Pic: Getty Images Responding to a recent article on what the profession owes the IMO for its efforts down the years, Dr Ruairi Hanley believes that its former CEO and its stances on opening up the GMS...
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Dear Sir/Madam, If I had the wisdom back in 1966 to apply for a job sweeping the streets instead of spending the next forty years in singlehanded rural dispensing general practice here in Corofin, I...
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