Blackrock Clinic action ‘in nobody’s interests’

A judge has warned the two “main protagonists” in a long High Court battle for control of Dublin’s Blackrock Clinic that continuation of the “negative and destructive” litigation is neither in the interests of the hospital nor the parties.

In 2014, Joseph Sheehan, co-founder of the clinic, initiated a case against Breccia, whose co-directors are businessmen Larry Goodman and Declan Sheeran, and others, including George Duffy and Blackrock Hospital Ltd (BHL), the parent company of Blackrock Clinic. BHL has said it does not want to be in the case.

Mr Justice Robert Haughton yesterday directly addressed what he described as the “two main protagonists” — Dr Sheehan and Breccia, represented by Mr Sheeran — who had both accepted an invitation from the judge to attend before him so he might address them.