Doctors' dilemma: George McNeice profiled

The IMO has been in turmoil since it emerged that George McNeice had left the organisation with an overall package worth around €9.7 million, writes Susan Mitchell.

'I don't think many doctors would have recognised him if they'd passed him in the street.' Illustration: Peter Hanan

George McNeice

**Age:** 51

**Appearance:** formal and bespectacled

**Newsworthiness:** the IMO has been in turmoil since it emerged before Christmas that McNeice had left the organisation with an overall package worth around €9.7 million. The IMO agm takes place this week

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When making his annual address to doctors at the Irish Medical Organisation's general meeting ten years ago, the body's chief executive George McNeice described the previous year as one of "now-you-see-it-now-you-don't ...