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THE company controlled by former GP, Paschal Carmody, Lyntondell Ltd, which was recently convicted of selling unlicensed medicines, had a positive balance of over €120,000 in its most recent returns to the Companies Office.
At a recent special sitting of Tralee District Court, Mr Carmody, Ballycuggeran, Killaloe, was fined €1,500, ordered to pay €10,000 in costs and expenses and given a 10-month sentence suspended on condition that he be of good behaviour for 12 months.
Lyntondell Ltd pleaded guilty to five summons of selling unlicensed medical supplies. The company was fined €1,000.
And according to accounts returned to the Companies Office last July, Lyntondell had a positive balance of €128,308 to the end of 2003. Mr Carmody, along with Mr Jay Daly, are listed as directors of the company.
Two other companies, Heddonvard Ltd and Tinerana Ltd, with which Mr Carmody has been involved, have not been performing as well. Heddonvard also has a previous conviction for the unauthorised supply of medicines in January 2004, when it was fined €1,000.
Its most recent returns, last June, show that the company had a negative balance of €40,736 to the end of May 2004. The accounts also listed Mr Carmody’s wife, Dr Frieda Keane Carmody, as company secretary.
In relation to Tinerana Ltd, the accounts show that Pascal Carmody served as a director with Dr Keane Carmody in 2002 and 2003, but resigned in 2004, leaving his wife as the sole member of the company.
The company had a negative balance of €100,605 to the end of December 2003 in accounts lodged last July.
Mr Carmody was removed by the Medical Council from the medical register for misconduct in September 2004.
His defence counsel Brian McInerney told Tralee District Court that Mr Carmody “has fallen very considerably from grace. This process took place almost in a fish bowl under the bright lights and glare of the media at every twist and turn”.
Mr McInerney said that the father of five children, aged between 15 and 21, “is virtually unemployed and unemployable. At the age of 58, Mr Carmody wishes to look forward now, not backwards, and to make the best of what is left of the remainder of his life.”