A junior doctor who claimed he was the victim of racial bias was cleared of professional misconduct and poor professional performance at a Medical Council inquiry yesterday — despite the fact that many of the allegations against him were found to be factually true.

An expert witness yesterday painted a picture of an arrogant junior doctor who refused to take advice from his superiors, arguing that the doctor represented a danger to patients.

A doctor at the heart of a Medical Council inquiry yesterday questioned a witness as to whether he was lying.

A doctor subject to a Medical Council inquiry was “always going to prayer” and “used his religion not to behave properly”, a colleague said.

A consultant oncologist has told how she felt threatened by a doctor under her supervision on two separate occasions when she sought to discuss the junior registrar’s medical practices at the Midwestern Cancer Centre at University Hospital Limerick.