Nama has appointed a statutory receiver to assets belonging to Limerick-based property companies controlled by developers Joe Hanrahan and John Shee.

Two newspapers who published an article which collapsed a criminal trial have disputed the level of costs they are liable for.

AN investment company controlled by developer Sean Lyne recorded a loss of €6.6 million in 2010 before a receiver was appointed, new data shows.

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

THE bill of costs for the collapsed Paschal Carmody trial has been served on the Irish Examiner and The Irish Times by the Clare GP’s legal team, a court was told yesterday.

A NUMBER of property development companies co-owned by well-known Limerick businessmen, Joe Hanrahan and John Shee recorded combined losses of over €12 million in 2009, new accounts show.

THE Irish Examiner and the Irish Times have been found to be in technical contempt of court following the publication of court reports which led to the collapse of the trial of former GP, Dr Paschal Carmody.

THE trial of former Clare GP Paschal Carmody, who is accused of defrauding the families of two cancer patients, has collapsed.

The editors of two national newspapers could be held in contempt of court following the collapse of the trial of former Clare doctor Paschal Carmody today.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody is not the conman the prosecution is suggesting but a man who has given his life to the treatment of illnesses of the young and old, his counsel has claimed.

FORMER GP Paschal Carmody said a cancerous tumour and multiple lesions in the body of his brother, Peter, disappeared after he administered to him photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment and other treatments.

FORMER Clare GP Paschal Carmody told a jury that he never promised 15-year-old Conor O’Sullivan a cure for his cancer.

THE doctor who administered photodynamic therapy (PDT) treatment to two terminally ill cancer patients under the care of Dr Paschal Carmody had been struck off in the US, a court has heard.

A SENIOR medic agreed the results of the care given by former GP Paschal Carmody to nine terminally ill cancer patients were “exceptional”.

PHOTODYNAMIC therapy given to two terminally ill cancer patients by Paschal Carmody “was merely an excuse to extract large sums of cash from them knowing that the treatment would be of little benefit”.

A DAUGHTER of a deceased 58-year-old cancer victim told a court how Dr Paschal Carmody told her father that he would cure his cancer.

THE High Court has cleared the way for a former doctor to be tried on charges of defrauding a number of terminally ill cancer patients.

AN application by the state to have a retrial of former Killaloe doctor Paschal Carmody transferred to Dublin was yesterday halted at Limerick Circuit Court pending the outcome of a High Court challenge.

A JUDGE yesterday ordered a halt to the retrial of former Clare GP Paschal Carmody on charges of defrauding terminally ill patients pending the outcome of a High Court challenge.

In recent years the Medical Council has struck off or sanctioned a number of doctors for a various reasons.

IT will be years before alternative medicine practitioners are subject to regulation, Fine Gael claimed yesterday.

IT beggars belief that the statutory body responsible for protecting public health through the regulation of medical products failed to appear in court to prosecute a raft of 59 summonses against three defendants.

Evelyn Ring

GARDAÍ will shortly send a file to the DPP following an investigation into the activities of two doctors who treated cancer patients with a controversial therapy.

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.

FAMILIES whose members were treated by the disgraced former Killaloe GP Dr Paschal Carmody attended a meeting with the Minister for Health last evening at which they reiterated their demand for a full inquiry into the Medical Council’s complaints procedures.

TWO more complaints against disgraced doctor Paschal Carmody are to be referred to gardaí who are investigating the purported cancer cure business he ran with former colleague Dr William Porter.

TWO disgraced doctors accused of selling false hope to terminally ill cancer patients had their premises raided by detectives yesterday.

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

BERNIE GALLAGHER’S husband was in so much pain before he died he could only sleep for 15 minutes at a time while supported in a lukewarm bath.

A PATIENT lobby group is to request a change in legislation to prevent doctors struck off by the Medical Council practicing alternative medicine.