Former GP Carmody to pay €500 a month

Former GP Paschal Carmody is to pay €500 a month to the Irish Medicines Board in connection with a court order of €10,000 arising from a trial in Tralee in 2005, Tralee District Court ruled yesterday.

The payment was ordered in 2005 and Mr Carmody’s solicitor was asking the medicines board to accept payment of €1,000 within seven days and afterwards €500 a month, State solicitor Ed O’Sullivan told Judge James O’Connor.

The former Clare GP, with an address at Ballycuggeran, Killaloe, Co Clare, was found guilty in 2005 by Judge O’Connor at Tralee District Court of breaching Irish Medicines Board legislation. Mr Carmody had denied the charges. He was ordered to pay expenses and costs incurred by the board in its investigation. Sentencing in relation to two alleged offences of the wholesaling of St John’s Wort without a licence from the Irish Medicines Board at Bawnboy, Tralee, in January and November 2004, was adjourned also.

There have been several adjournments of the matters since.

Yesterday, after the matter was adjourned for over an hour, Mr O’Sullivan said there had been “discussion” between the parties about the payment ordered in 2005.

The initial payment of €1,000 is to be paid by October 30th .