Healthcare leaders say racist incidents have damaged Ireland’s reputation and could hinder international recruitment.

Members of a Medical Council review panel were entitled to have “serious concerns” about Mr Sheill’s “lack of insight” into the circumstances that led to him being struck off the British register in 2007, the judge said.

Dr Patricia Selvarani Black, who practiced in Co Laois, was struck off after Mr Justice Micheál P O’Higgins confirmed a decision of the Irish Medical Council