There are new developments in a massive sexual assault investigation involving an Army doctor.

So far, 400 victims have gone public, but there is now hope many more will come forward as a new scoping inquiry into the horrific scandal, led by senior counsel Lorcan Staines, gets underway.

Weak legal regulation of paramedics is being blamed for a "horrifying” situation where criminals, including at least eight known convicted sex offenders, are free to work as paramedics.

A University Hospital Limerick doctor, who was convicted of raping a nurse after a night out, “should have been suspended from clinical practice when we became aware of the assault”, admitted HSE Mid West this week.

Columbia released a report Tuesday outlining the findings of an independent investigation it commissioned nearly two and a half years ago into the “institutional failures” that enabled convicted sex-offender and former OB-GYN Robert Hadden to sexually assault more than 500 patients.

A GP has admitted to poor professional performance over his physical examination of an army officer during which he inappropriately exposed one of her breasts without the patient’s consent.

A nurse who was raped by a doctor in Limerick faced her abuser in court today and told him: “I got justice.” Louay Kila (31) who worked as a registrar doctor at the University Hospital Limerick (UHL) at the time, was convicted at the Central Criminal Court, Limerick on Thursday, of the rape and sexual assault of the victim on March 2, 2024.

A full scale public inquiry into the sex abuse by disgraced doctor, Michael Shine, has moved a step closer. The Government has appointed a facilitator to begin a 16-week scoping investigation. He is Senior Counsel Lorcan Staines and he is scheduled to begin his work this Tuesday.

Dignity4Patients thanks Sinn Féin for their support this week as the commencement of a Scoping Exercise is warmly welcomed by victims and survivors, many of whom have campaigned with immense courage to have their voices heard.

Dignity4Patients thanks Sinn Féin for their support this week as the commencement of a Scoping Exercise is warmly welcomed by victims and survivors, many of whom have campaigned with immense courage to have their voices heard.

A collection of some of the speeches made by Deputy's in the Dáil on the 4th of March 2026 following the announcement of Lorcan Staines SC as Independent Facilitator for the Scoping Exercise sought after on behalf of victims and survivors of Michael Shine.

A Medical Council fitness to practise committee has made no findings of fact or misconduct regarding allegations that an anaesthetist inappropriately touched, in the genital area, four patients under sedation at Naas General Hospital in 2016 and 2017.

Earlier, Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan announced a payment of €20,000 for survivors of the fire for "delays in providing truth and justice".

A civil suit stemming from the alleged sexual abuse of nearly 200 patients by former West Linn Doctor has settled against the last defendant

Despite complaints against Pines dating to the early 2010s — and his medical license being temporarily revoked — the doctor was not charged with a crime for a decade. And he was allowed to practice medicine again during that time. In 2023, Pines was charged with three counts of lewd conduct with a minor, and later charged with two additional counts, for a total of five felonies.

A former longtime doctor at Cincinnati Children's who is accused of possessing more than 150,000 images and hundreds of videos of children being sexually abused also faces allegations in civil lawsuits that he performed medically unnecessary genital exams.

Dozens of children in foster care and multiple boys who lived in Clyne’s home when he was a licensed foster parent have accused him of sexual abuse, and he has been the subject of criminal investigations dating back to 2001.

One thousand RCMP employees, past and present, allege that as new recruits applying for jobs they were subjected to "improper and invasive" breast, genital and rectal exams during mandatory medical screening.

Last Thursday, the Royal Gendarmerie in Salé referred seven suspects to the Public Prosecution at the Rabat Court of Appeal in connection with a case involving the sexual exploitation of a minor, which resulted in her pregnancy. The young woman later underwent an abortion at a well-known gynecology clinic in Rabat.