Medical Council urged to take 'appropriate' action amid 'violent image' UCD backlash

Students protesting on the University College Dublin campus calling for systemic change in how UCD responds to sexual violence and gender-based harm. Picture: Sam Boal/Collins Photos

The Medical Council has been urged by University College Dublin's dean of medicine to take "whatever action it deems appropriate" over an open letter from doctors complaining about the university's failure to act on the sharing of a "violent image" of a student. 

Last April, someone circulated images of Maeve's (not her real name) “naked, bruised, and unconscious” body to 171 university staff emails through an unidentified Proton Mail account.