A DOCTOR who admitted trying to cover up his failure to note a recommendation of further surgery for a now terminally ill patient behaved disgracefully, the Irish Medical Council’s fitness to practise committee said yesterday.

MISTAKES can be made in any profession but those who make them must be man enough to put their hands up, Superintendent Martin Dorney told the Medical Council inquiry in Cork just over a week ago.

A GARDA given just months to live after his doctor failed to pass on test results – and then tried to cover it up – has said his family is “facing down the barrel of a gun”.

WHEN Pauline Dorney asked her family doctor if her husband would be around to see his son graduate from college, he could not answer.

A RETIRED Department of Defence engineer was bound to the peace for 12 months after a court heard he told a victim support worker he had hired thugs to harm his neighbours.

GARDA Commissioner Fachtna Murphy has made changes in senior ranks of the force in the southern region.

A JUDGE yesterday described a former Department of Defence engineer as “a neighbour from hell” and denied his appeal against a garda refusal to grant him a firearms licence.

GARDAÍ believe that €200,000 worth of spirits stolen from a Co Cork warehouse are likely to be sold on the Christmas drinks market.

GARDAÍ swooped on a premises in south Tipperary last night and arrested three men.

GARDAÍ are hoping for a breakthrough in their investigation into the murder of a frail Cork pensioner when his last-known movements are re-enacted on Crimecall tonight.

IF YOU’RE offered cheap Elizabeth Arden perfume, Hewlett Packard computers, or Canterbury sports clothing by a stranger in a pub, the chances are they were stolen from a warehouse in Co Cork.

GARDAÍ are searching for a gang that netted more than €250,000 worth of computers, sportswear and perfumes during a raid early yesterday.

A sentence of life imprisonment was imposed today on the man who murdered his teenaged ex-girlfriend in Cobh last July.

GARDAÍ are still trying to pin down the exact time strangled teenager Sheola Keaney was last seen alive because this information could prove vital to finding her killer.

The killer of Cobh woman Sheola Keaney concealed her remains under scrap metal, it was confirmed today.

GARDAÍ are keeping an open mind on their investigation into the death of Sheola Keaney, whose body was found dumped in a laneway in Cobh, Co Cork on Sunday night.

RAY O’DONOGHUE was in his bedroom on the morning of January 16 when his eldest son Wayne walked in. He was crying and he told his father he loved him.

WAYNE O’DONOGHUE became aggressive with gardaí because of delays in the search for schoolboy Robert Holohan.

Wayne O’Donoghue took an active part in the search for Robert Holohan after his disappearance – and even reacted angrily to gardaí about delays.

ALMOST 2,000 lines of inquiry have been followed into the death of Robert Holohan, 11, a court heard yesterday. Gardaí have received more time to prepare a book of evidence against a man charged with his manslaughter because of the enormity of the investigation.

GARDAÍ have been given more time to prepare a Book of Evidence in the case of an engineering student charged with the manslaughter of an 11-year-old boy, because they are still awaiting the full results of forensic tests.

Seán O’Riordan

A 20-YEAR-OLD engineering student charged with the manslaughter of schoolboy Robert Holohan has been remanded in custody to appear in court again on February 3.

EXPERTS are still trying to find the source of a potentially explosive gas which led authorities to seal off half of the main street in Midleton, Co Cork.

GARDAÍ have seized drugs worth €250,000 in searches in Cork and Kerry.

THREE illegal Romanian immigrants who have been in custody for the past five weeks again failed in their efforts to be released on bail yesterday.

A MAN was jailed yesterday for 60 days for what his own solicitor acknowledged was a brutal assault on his estranged girlfriend and mother of his young child.

Dual All-Ireland winning star Teddy McCarthy was accused today of being threatening or abusive and assaulting a man in the early hours of New Year's Day.

A fourth man was arrested and charged in Cork today with being a member of the Real IRA.