Inquiry criticises failure to notice Dr Neary’s actions

The inquiry set up to investigate the number of unnecessary womb removals carried out by Dr Michael Neary has reportedly criticised the failure of the authorities to notice what was going on.

Reports this morning said the inquiry had found that Dr Neary, a former consultant obstetrician at Our Lady's Hospital in Drogheda, carried out 129 hysterectomies between 1974 and 1998 on women who had given birth less than six weeks previously.