DR MARY McBride Freyne, of Orwell Park, Rathgar, Dublin, has been found to have engaged in professional misconduct for "abusing her professional position". Her name is to be removed from the general register of medical practitioners.
The decision was made by the Irish Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Committee, whose inquiry found that she had prescribed controlled drugs to persons named in prescriptions "with the intention that she should make personal use of some or all of such controlled drugs".
The committee also found Dr McBride Freyne unfit to engage in medicine "by reason of her addiction to opiates".
The committee also found that Dr Aziz Ur Rehman, from Pakistan, with an address in Middlesex, England, had engaged in professional misconduct. It found that he had performed "an intimate examination on a named patient in the absence of a nurse when postponement of such an examination would not have adversely affected the health or welfare of the patient". The committee said it would not entertain a new period of temporary registration for the doctor before May 1st, 1997.
Dr Syed Asif Alam, of Pakistan, with an address in Ilford, Essex, was also found by the committee to have been engaged in professional misconduct. He gave a document to the Regional Hospital in Limerick which he knew to be false.
Dr William Blaise Harvey Brunker, Cathedral Road, Ballina, Co Mayo, has been restored to the register "with immediate effect".