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THE TALLAGHT GP and Trinity College Dublin public health specialist who first drew attention to the failure to review large numbers of X-rays in Tallaght hospital has called on the chairman of the hospital board to consider his position.

Prof Tom O’Dowd said that because the chairman, Lyndon MacCann, had not responded to two separate letters from him warning of the X-ray backlog and other problems, the question must be asked: “Does he see himself as the person to oversee the governance of a modern healthcare institution?”