Paschal Carmody said yesterday “it is very hurtful” that he has had to spend millions of euro to defend his innocence over the past nine years.

Two false pretence charges remain outstanding against Paschal Carmody after his acquittal yesterday of nine counts of obtaining monies by deception from two families of terminally-ill cancer patients.

A CIRCUIT Court judge had no jurisdiction to order two national newspapers to pay costs of the collapsed Paschal Carmody trial.

A Clare doctor who was struck off the Register of Medical Practitioners after he was convicted of supplying a prescription-only drug by mail order succesfully appealed a three-month suspended jail sentence today.

THE Government must update the law to ensure that struck-off doctors cannot offer dubious alternative treatments to patients who are seriously ill.