Stephen Farrell

A former primary school principal convicted of stealing more than €100,000 from his school should be suspended from the teaching register for one month, the sectors’ regulator has held. A Teaching Council fitness-to-teach panel decided the registrant, who... See more

A nurse has admitted to professional misconduct, poor professional performance and breaches of the code of professional conduct at a Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI) fitness-to-practise committee. Andrea Capelli, a male nurse who worked at Ou... See more

We have all seen the little warning label on the glass of a car wing mirror — ‘Warning! Objects in this mirror may be closer than they appear’. At the end of October, someone sent me a picture of a wing mirror with this phrase, but what appeared in the gl... See more

A teacher’s conviction for raping and sexually assaulting a family member affects his fitness to teach, a panel has heard. The teacher was convicted and sentenced a number of years ago on three counts of rape and four counts of sexual assault before a jur... See more

A fitness-to-practise committee of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland (PSI) has found a pharmacist guilty of professional misconduct and poor performance. The inquiry heard allegations against Edward Malone, supervising and superintendent pharmacist at... See more