‘Blinded to the consequence of his actions’

NOT evil, not incompetent, but deeply flawed and working in an environment where faults went uninvestigated and uncorrected.

The picture that emerges of Dr Micheal Neary in the Lourdes Inquiry report is not one that lends itself to easy analysis.

It was not within the inquiry’s brief to probe why he robbed so many women of their chance of motherhood, but Judge Maureen Harding Clark could not omit the question.