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Call to End Compulsory Medicals for Older Drivers

A proposal calling for the immediate abolition of medical screening of older drivers was carried at the IMO annual general meeting in Killarney. Prof Desmond O’Neill, consultant in geriatric medicine at Tallaght Hospital and a professor at Trinity College Dublin, told the IMO agm that the Republic’s current practice of granting driving licences to older […]