Shine report NOT to be made public!!!!

[Newsy]

The group that represents former patients of the Drogheda surgeon Michael Shine has expressed disappointment and anger at the news the investigation into his conduct will not be published.

Last year, Ms Harney announced she was appointing Judge Smyth to review issues surrounding Mr Shine and his work in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

The retired judge heard evidence this year from a number of former patients and was due to finalise his report around the summer.

However, Ms Harney told the Dáil earlier this week that his report will not be published on the advice of the judge because of possible criminal prosecutions.

There are a number of civil cases pending against Mr Shine, while garda investigations into complaints are continuing.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/1008/shinem.html

Patients of struck-off medic Michael Shine have demanded an urgent meeting with the Health Minister over a decision not to publish a report on sex abuse allegations.

Support group Dignity 4 Patients said alleged victims gave evidence at great emotional cost and claimed it was inexcusable the Drogheda Review will not be made public.

Bernadette Sullivan, a former nurse who founded the group, revealed several requests for information on a publication date have been ignored by the Department of Health.

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Barnardos, the Children's Rights Alliance, the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre and One in Four said today: "it is beyond belief that a serial sex offender could have operated in a busy general hospital under the eyes of medical and nursing staff for 30 years without anybody noticing."

The groups also said it is worrying that a long Garda investigation did not result in a conviction, depsite the number of complaints. The surgeon was acquitted in 2003 on charges of indecent and sexual assault on six male patients when they were teenagers.

The support groups have called in Health Minister Mary Harney to establish an independent inquiry to investigate the way in which the allegations against Michael Shine were handled.
They say such an inquiry must examine the role played by the Medical Missionaries of Mary, who previously owned the hospital, the local health board, and the Gardai in allowing a "powerful medical consultant to continually sexually abuse young boys with impunity."

http://www.irishhealth.com/article.html?id=15655


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I get so sick of the silence in this country. Here we go yet again, with this report.

This probe was called for while criminal investigations were underway, so what is the problem!!!!

[Andrew49]

A High Court test case, involving a patient who alleged he was sexually assaulted by Dr Michael Shine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda, Co Louth, has been settled today for a six-figure sum.

Ronan MacConnoran of Ardee Road, Dunleer, Co Louth, sued the 80-year-old former orthopaedic surgeon, the North Eastern Health Board and a representative of the hospital.

In 1993, the then-16-year-old Ronan MacConnoran was referred to Dr Shine at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital having complained to his GP of neck pain. He alleged that Dr Shine sexually assaulted him while conducting a physical examination. A jury was sworn in to hear an action for damages, but the case failed to get underway when Dr Shine, now aged 80, was hospitalised on Tuesday night with stroke-like symptoms. However, the jury was told today that the case had settled. Speaking outside the High Court, Ronan MacConnoran's solicitor David Colemen said this was a test case for many similar actions.

"We're happy with the terms of the settlement, and we hope that it will assist in settling all of these cases in the future,"

He would not give the exact terms of the settlement, but said it involved a strong six-figure sum.

[Andrew49]

A retired consultant surgeon has appeared in court charged with indecently assaulting 16 male patients over three decades at a hospital and a private clinic in Drogheda, Co Louth.

Michael Shine, 80, who lives in an apartment on Wellington Road in Dublin was arrested outside the Criminal Courts of Justice this morning. Gardaí asked that Mr Shine surrender his passport and sign on once a week at Donnybrook Garda Station as part of his bail conditions. The defence objected on a number of grounds, including the fact that Mr Shine had the use of an apartment in the Canary Islands and had planned to go there in August for a few months. RTE News

He expects to walk away free from these charges - something to do with the length of time between alleged offence and criminal charge.