Paul Murphy

Prime Time

The clinic is located in the Summerhill Primary Care Centre.

Charity warns clinic may still close despite minister's statement

A busy GP clinic in Dublin's north inner city remains under the threat of closure, despite Health Minister Stephen Donnelly's public statement that the issue has been "sorted," according to the charity that runs the practice.

Prime Time • 15 Nov 24

Charity warns clinic may still close despite minister's statement

A busy GP clinic in Dublin's north inner city remains under the threat of closure, despite Health Minister Stephen Donnelly's public statement that the issue has been "sorted," according to the charity that runs the practice.

Prime Time • 15 Nov 24

Summerhill Primary Care Centre in Dublin's north inner city.

Charity warns tax decision could leave 2,600 people without a GP

It's a busy clinic in Dublin's north inner city with a full patient list that everyone seems to love, yet it is facing closure.

Prime Time • 12 Nov 24

McVerry Trust sought to hide Kildare house purchase from public

The Peter McVerry Trust asked its external auditor to buy a house in Kildare so the fact that the charity was purchasing the property "was not publicly known"

Prime Time • 10 Oct 24

Bob Jordan is the Chief Executive of the Housing Agency

Revealed: Housing Agency chief sold property to McVerry Trust

The sale of an investment property by the CEO of the Housing Agency to the Peter McVerry Trust raises "blatant" conflict of interest concerns, according to a corporate goverance expert

Prime Time • 29 Aug 24

Seven-year-old Kate Heffernan was hit by an e-scooter user

E-scooters: Collision concerns remain despite new legal certainty

Figures from An Garda Síochána show that for the first six months of this year, collisions involving scooters rose from 123 to 174, a 41% increase compared to the same period last year.

Prime Time • 13 Aug 24

The Office of Public Works is currently planning to build a 9,580sq/m National Children's Science Centre at the northern wing of the National Concert Hall

Science centre plan: more twists in €70 million museum saga

A commitment by the OPW to build a children's science museum may have exposed the State to a compensation payment of at least €26m if it hadn't agreed to deliver the project

Prime Time • 26 Jul 24

Current Capuchin CEO told of McVerry Trust move to divert money

The current CEO of the Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People was cc-ed on an email which ordered the improper diversion of a €1.6m Capuchin donation, Prime Time has learned

Prime Time • 27 Jun 24

Pat Doyle (pictured) left the McVerry Trust in May 2023, after 18 years as CEO

€400k spent on home for use by family of friend of ex-McVerry CEO

Internal documents obtained by Prime Time show that €400,000 was spent on a home which was intended to be used by the family of a friend of its former CEO.

Prime Time • 21 Jun 24

Ex-CEO says McVerry Trust Board restricted contact with Regulator

The board of the Peter McVerry Trust instructed the then CEO of the charity not to engage freely with the Charities Regulator about governance issues at the troubled Trust

Prime Time • 13 Jun 24