No-show in ex-GP trial unbelievable

IT beggars belief that the statutory body responsible for protecting public health through the regulation of medical products failed to appear in court to prosecute a raft of 59 summonses against three defendants.

They included a controversial ex-doctor accused of supplying products without a license.

It is simply not good enough for the Irish Medicines Board (IMB) to say it was unaware that the case involving former Co Clare GP Paschal Carmody, who had been struck off the register last year, was before the court.