“All in all everyone is happy and it’s onwards and upwards from here,” said Irish rider Shane Breen after Sunday’s nations cup league opener in Samorin, Slovakia.

A DOCTOR who worked in an out-of-hours GP service in the south has been found guilty of poor professional performance by a Medical Council fitness-to-practise inquiry.

THE Medical Council is facing a substantial bill after the High Court yesterday directed it to pay the legal costs of two consultant obstetricians who successfully challenged findings of professional misconduct against them by the council over their 1998 reports on the work of Dr Michael Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

THE Medical Council acted unfairly and unlawfully in finding that two consultant obstetricians were guilty of professional misconduct over reports exonerating the obstetric practice of Dr Micheal Neary at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, the High Court was told yesterday.