Medical Council and hospital group initiate separate probes into death of Shane Banks

Ciara Banks holds a picture of her late husband Shane, with Banks family members Allen, Margaret, Mickey, and Ray, at the medical inquest last year into his death in Galway University Hospital in 2019.

The Irish Medical Council and Saolta Hospital Group have both launched investigations into the death of a father of three after surgery to remove cancer on his lung.

The probes follow a High Court case and inquest into Shane Banks' death. The lecturer in business at Sligo Institute of Technology died following the performance of a second operation for treatable lung cancer on June 21, 2019. He died three days later.