12/02/2025
Dear Doctor Moroney and Newport Medical Practice,
I've been disappointed regarding your complete failure to respond to the concerns and complaints I've made, on top of your breach of my data, personal and medical information, and harm to my well-being. This letter is mainly addressed to Dr Moroney.
On January 17th, Dr Moroney, I had a nightmare that you and your friend Michael forced me into a hostile psychiatric assessment to meet Michael's needs. And given his disregard for the law and ethical behaviour and your complicity in aiding harm to me, it wouldn't have been that surprising, and there remains a grave concern about you possibly having misdiagnosed me to meet his needs, as well as the reality of you giving him my personal and medical paperwork without my consent. The nightmare was a trauma dream about what you and Michael have done.
I'm writing this as a public open letter because that counters the silence which you think will make me and your misconduct go away. What a terrible doctor and practice you are, to do such damage, to act as if such damage is okay, and to refuse to respond. Doctor Moroney, you should step down, you don't have any reason to remain now that your replacements have come in and you not just past retirement age, but no longer fit to practice, your continued practice while no longer fit has done me irreparable harm.
Dr Moroney, why was it okay for you to verbally breach my medical data and then hand my medical and personal details to someone else without my consent? Someone whose behaviour was questionable and erratic, someone who was your patient and your friend, conflicted. This is all very unprofessional and his being your friend as well as you being his doctor is very concerning, you helping your friend with 'vulnerable cases' is very concerning, but you think I'll just go away and be silenced over this as you and your practice have always refused to respond to correspondence about it. Your friend, Michael can't silence me by illegally interfering in my life anymore, and he doesn't want to be investigated himself, so maybe it's time this matter was resolved. He never expected any person who he 'recruited' to be able to speak up, the vulnerable cases he involves himself with tend to be voiceless and to not know that they have boundaries that Michael isn't to cross. He is used to doing as he pleases, and that is worrying.
I have ongoing concerns regarding Michael, the man who brought me to you, I'm not completely clear what he was doing, but I think it's not that common for him to get involved in women, he's a man's man and from the same generation as you, when such things were certainly happening but very much taboo. Those young boys he has in that other apartment in Dublin, one at least was still a teenager and I'm guessing they're from the school where he taught/teaches, the same as that lad who he was still in contact with who he supposedly mentored at the school, showed me a 'reference' from about his educational mentoring, Michael sent me that 'reference' when I was leaving his care that first time because I was concerned about what he was doing, and it wasn't a reference for Michael's mentoring, it was a description of the lad winning a scholarship and Michael, or the other Michael, also a teacher, helping him with time management and organisation at school, is what is mentioned, not at all the same thing as Michael mentoring lone vulnerable people outside of school, as he was doing with me.
Michael and tried to involve that lad, now 23/24 in my life without understanding that he really shouldn't still be in contact with his old student and certainly shouldn't be putting him into my life or using him for favours in return for scholarship mentoring. I'm still puzzled as to whether Michael genuinely doesn't understand boundaries or whether he was deliberately taking advantage of feeling that they owe him. One thing I wish I could say to him is that it is no longer a shame nor a crime to be homosexual, if he is, but that youngsters who he taught or mentored should be off limits even if they are legal age, and how he had this lad's details still to contact him and ask him to be in my life long after the lad finished university from his scholarship and Michael tried to involve him behind my back and without my consen. It's unprofessional for him to use them for favours as he tried to in my case, and he should consider things regarding his family. You, as his doctor, maybe should have done more for him regarding this but it was taboo in your and his day, and as his friend, presumably you condone what he does, especially as you have aided him in illegally obtaining my personal information.
So as it's all males in his life apart from his family, I am hopeful I'm the only woman whose life he's messed up, maybe he doesn't understand that you cannot treat a traumatised woman the same as you treat a young man, although he shouldn't really be around vulnerable youngsters such as the teen who lost is parents and he could hurt vulnerable males as much as he's hurt me although I'd say young males are stronger than severely traumatised women, his behaviour is too erratic, and his preference for males would explain why he was blind to the fact that putting me in accommodation with an undeclared male fugitive as he tried to, would not be appropriate, he's used to men and spends his time with men, he doesn't realise that men and women shouldn't be put together as if they're the same in such circumstances Of course he knew that me illegally declaring myself the only tenant would have been wrong and risky though and he was willing to put me in danger despite my vulnerability, which is not okay. And that guy was disgusting anyway, living in his own dirt, you wouldn't put a woman in there. It is another indicator that Michael's involvement with me wasn't about care, and he would say to me 'It's not what I can do for you, it's what you can do for me', and as I said, I knew he didn't mean this in a sexual way, before I'd even thought about the men in his life.
In Dublin, where Michael goes to be out of his family's gaze, and told me he gets the bus so he can drink. He has property, and in one property, a penthouse near the one where he kept me. He has young lads, told me they were from Tipperary, one was 19 at the time, in fact I think two were. He said one lad had lost both parents to suicide and he was mentoring him. I was puzzled about why and how he had young lads from his native Tipperary there and how long the 19 year old had been there or when his parents had died. And then I realised that they are possibly from his school. My concern is his erratic behaviour upsetting them, late teens and early 20s isn't full maturity.
When Michael got involved in my life, and despite my experiences, I didn't know what I was dealing with. In a way I still don't, I only know the persona, the pretence of the benevolent millionaire, which quickly vanished when I stood up to him about his and your behaviour and his attempt to make me live with the fugitive and illegally declare myself the only tenant and onward as he messed with my life and my head. It was at the same time that he decided I should be on disability allowance, and I was surprisingly gullible, unaware that he was anything but an altruistic person, and so I let him make an appointment with you for me. You are his family doctor, his doctor, his wife's doctor, his children's doctor I guess, and his late family's doctor, and they all have private medical cover. So presumably he paid for my appointment, that was my understanding at the time, and I was both grateful and bewildered. His paying did not give him access to my medical conditions or notes and no such agreement was made.
Michael took over my life when I was homeless, he was offering me accommodation and a bright future, said he'd develop my talent and I'd have redress for what I'd been through, I was terribly gullible, wasn't I? Confused rather than doubting when I realised he didn't really care about me and my well-being. But he would forget what he said from one day to the next, and he tried to force me to take part in an inappropriate and manipulative daily mindfulness thing which would be unhealthy for anyone, not least someone struggling with trauma. I have nothing against mindfulness as part of free will and when a person is in a place when they can take part, but this was bad mindfulness, misleading dangerous psychology, badly framed to encourage people to be selfish and uncaring about others, and at the wrong time for me, and due to my past experiences I started to become concerned about what Michael was doing as it was reminiscent with indoctrination into a cult, and I also wondered why Michael needed a daily lesson in how to feel good about himself and not care about other people and responsibility, more so when he brought me to you and then attempted to arrange for me to make an illegal declaration and go into an illegal tenancy.
The first concern is, Dr Moroney, you are obviously not just Michael's doctor, you are his friend, you brought him into the consultation room and started talking to him about the Clare flag on your driveway and you also verbally breached medical data to him so naturally that it's as if you didn't know the law, telling him of one of my medical conditions without my consent, although Michael wasn't really with us in his head, a lot of the time I was with him he wasn't really there in his head, he would be gone, often in the middle of a conversation. As his doctor, have you ever picked up on that and done anything about it? Michael has what appears to be absence seizures or another neurological condition.
My other concern there was that between you and Michael, you stated that Michael had brought many vulnerable 'rescue' cases to you. I am concerned, what became of them? The fugitive who he tried to put me in with seemed to be doing okay from it all, hidden from his local authorities and in free accommodation although the place was a slum, and acting as Michael's gofer and driver when Michael was drinking, but has anyone else been hurt or harmed? Are there other females? Should you have been doing this, considering how erratic Michael is? And certainly why did you give Michael my personal details and medical data without my consent?! I wouldn't even give Michael my bank details when he asked, because I quickly understood that things were unstable. And in case it is asked why I didn't abandon Michael early on if I was unsure, two things, I nearly did, he persuaded me to come back and at that time used the 'reference' from that young man, and I had to choose between the possibility of accommodation if I stuck with him and kept faith in him, and indefinite homelessness if not. Sadly I both stuck with him and ended up with indefinite homelessness and worse, Michael refusing to conclude but coming after me making me out to be insane.
You hadn't read the medical notes that Michael put me under pressure to send you and you had little understanding of my case, even though Michael had made me send the notes the weekend before I saw you and said you'd read them before you saw me. You also had no understanding when I told you you had to use my address point for the disability form, as that was the address Welfare used for me as I wasn't officially living at the empty apartment under sale where Michael was keeping me. But myself and Michael both explained that the form and the covering letter you said you'd write when you'd read my notes, were to be sent to me at the apartment where he was keeping me, and Michael wrote down the address for you. This was after you'd breached medical confidences by sharing something about my medical condition with Michael against my consent, a physical medical condition.
After seeing you, and expecting you to send the medical form and letter to me, Michael took me to see the slum where he was keeping that fugitive, and he expected me to move there and illegally declare myself the only tenant to the authorities. I was ill after that, because of conditions and then Michael putting me under intolerable pressure to get the disability forms sent to Welfare within two days and told me he could contact the welfare department and get them to fast track my claim, which would normally take 3 months - why he wanted this became more evident later, but he told me he had the welfare minister's phone number in his contacts and could phone her anytime - something is wrong there and he shouldn't be influencing welfare claims. I couldn't proceed because you never sent your form and letter to me, you gave them to Michael and they had personal and confidential details I didn't want him to have, as well as medical details.
Your practice didn't help during the terrible few days after I saw you, with heatstroke and the heatwave and me hiding in the apartment from the antisocial behaviour right outside and having to keep the windows closed because people didn't know I was there and Michael shouting and putting me under intolerable pressure to get the disability application in within days, your practice, knowing I didn't use a phone as I'd been clear, kept phoning me, then sent a message demanding I phoned someone there who I didn't know. I wasn't registering with you practice, I wasn't coming back, it was a one-off visit that Michael paid for. you had my details in full as I'd done the forms, I shouldn't have had to deal with a whole morning of your staff trying to contact me when you knew I don't use a phone due to my disability. I emailed the practice and they had my email of course, but there was no reply. I received no email clarifying the matter, your practice were committing misconduct, and obviously you had the address written down to send me the medical form which contained confidential personal details, and the covering letter you said you'd do. You'd told me you had to exaggerate my details to get welfare to accept the claim. You also said you'd do my prescriptions, you made a note of them, and never did them.
Michael, after putting me under huge pressure to send the application to welfare within days, making me ill because I'm not able to be put under such pressure, stopped and instead started gloating to me that he had my personal and medical information in his custody and he wasn't handing it over. I am not sure I understand why he got pleasure out of this, but he did, he was crowing, and it was obvious he didn't intend to simply send them to me to complete the application, send them to welfare, return them to you or destroy them. You had been given the apartment address to send that information to me, and could have got the address again from Michael instead you gave the documents to Michael and I never saw them nor was I able to send the application to welfare, so there was no disability allowance application and I was left traumatised, with Michael being a prat and taunting me that he had the paperwork. This was illegal. This should not have happened, Michael did have a tendency to gaslight me and taunt me, that's just him, made me out to be paranoid, and yet concerns about his own behaviour, as if he's in any position to judge when he behaves as he does, but in the situation I was in, it wasn't good for me and you had no right to give him my personal and medical information. And I think you knew very well what he's like, from what you said to me. You're his doctor as well as his friend, why have things got to such a point, through conflicts of interests, where he is hurting people and you are aiding him instead of doing something about his tendencies?
Michael's actions echoed and repeated my experiences of coercive control and abuse that I'd suffered previously. And I reacted, he was pleased to get a reaction and make me out to be mentally ill. He didn't like me responding to his accusation by talking about him turning up drunk to meet me and joking about getting me drunk, did he?
I refused to live in the slum with the fugitive and break the law by signing paperwork falsely stating I was the only tenant there, and I left Michael, intending to go back to the streets, but he came after me. I was a fool to let him and as a result have suffered terribly, he came after me and took to offering me different apartments and different conditions, rents, move dates and everything kept changing. He was playing with me and I didn't know. He continued to make reference to having the disability paperwork, very open about you and him breaking the law. He enjoyed jerking me around and gaslighting me and it started to wear me down. The thing is, it is very obvious you couldn't have sent him that information in confidence, isn't it? What would you have done, put it in a sealed envelope in an envelope and a letter telling Michael that that was my confidential information and he wasn't to open it? Michael is a rogue, and in the unlikely event that you did that, he would have opened the envelope. You very deliberately handed my personal details which I witheld from him because of his behaviour, and my medical information, exaggerated by you as you said, for the claim, to Michael to view. You did so, when the agreement was for you to send the documents to me, and you could always have asked Michael if you had 'lost' the address which he told you while I was there and you wrote it down.
It is unclear if Michael really does own property or if the properties he claimed he was offering me were managed by him by his management company, a strange sort of business as he doesn't have a website and the website on his business card is for an unrelated company in the USA. In the end he offered me a definite tenancy without any dirty fugitives, and we did the paperwork for the housing payment, and it turned out the property belonged to his wife, for tax reasons I guess, but we went ahead. Then four days before the move, he withdrew the tenancy, contacting the council first to cancel the housing payment, and then sending me a load of rather weird texts, not explaining what was happening. The empty apartment where he kept me was apparently going to the new buyer within days, Michael was coming to collect the few things he had there, and he tried to tell me he was handing me over to other people for a home, while after that terrible slum and fugitive and illegal situation he'd proposed, I wasn't blindly going into anything he wouldn't explain, he wouldn't tell me who he was handing me over to without consent. He contacted the council who had failed me and left me homeless, knowing I had a formal complaint, he contacted them, and discussed things with them, withdrew the tenancy and left me street homeless and then tried to make up a fantastical story about handing me to someone else, knowing I'd repeatedly objected to him involving strangers in my life, including when he'd tried to involve that lad from his school.
I returned to the streets, Michael's behaviour was too erratic and dangerous for me, he was not able to explain himself and I was absolutely devastated that he had withdrawn the tenancy after all that messing about, when I'd worked so hard to get the housing payment arranged and move my life to that area, and I realised it was possible that he had never intended to house me, what he was doing is unclear and remains so. I invested myself in the future Michael was offering, and paradoxically I loved him for giving me hope and a possible future, while always being aware that what he was doing was bizarre, erratic, and didn't make sense, and he wouldn't explain or resolve any issues, my feelings for Michael were always split between thinking the world of him as the man who'd stepped in to help me, and being confused and distressed by his bizarre behaviour. My feelings remain chaotic, which is human, but gradually I understand it was a big hoax on his part and that he wasn't safe to be around.
Michael simply didn't care about leaving me back on the streets, he truly didn't, and went silent after another ridiculous and irrelevant text about 'leaving my walking stick for me', something that didn't matter as he'd held onto it for months without caring, and I'd managed without it. Michael was gone, he wouldn't communicate, he'd withdrawn the tenancy and he'd left me street homeless. I was on the streets suddenly with winter coming, having become used to being indoors, Michael was ignoring me. I raged and I wrote, trying to make sense, he ignored me. The callousness with which he'd withdrawn the tenancy, at a time we weren't even arguing, the bizarre excuses he'd made, and then just ignoring me. I didn't understand and still don't, essentially he was telling me he considered me to be utterly worthless.
A few days after leaving me street homeless, I ended up with my heart in arrhythmia, which happens sometimes and was triggered by what happened, and I was at the hospital. I was horrified by the hospital and all the people on trollies. I was lucky this time, unlike last time, I wasn't left on a trolley now. I came out of hospital shaken and upset, soaked through with the weather and then sexually assaulted several times while I remained shocked and street homeless at night. Michael was silent, he'd simply, suddenly, disposed of me.
I asked him to meet me, shake hands and conclude, because that's what decent people do. He wouldn't. And so I began the confused, broken and sorrowing journey away from him and away from the new life he'd promised me, the life of being housed and 'coached in my talents' and 'given redress for what I'd suffered' as he'd said. I had no idea he was just playing with me and I didn't want it to be so, I thought the world of him while knowing he was doing wrong, but he'd gone, and I had to move on. Loss of hope had a terrible effect on me.
Funnily enough, although Michael had thrown me away, I don't think he expected me to let go, I think he thought I'd cling to him and plead and beg for the unknown and bizarre alternative to the tenancy he suddenly withdrew just days before he was due to collect me and take me to the one we'd agreed with the council. He has issues around control, he left me back on the streets and coldly walked away, perhaps 'punishing' me over the disability allowance mess that you and he made. I have no idea, what he did was utterly bizarre. I am autistic and unable to fathom what he was doing, but he refused conclusion and walked away, went silent, and then tried to come back and hurt me some more, wich is where my serious concerns about you, Dr Moroney, come into this, and I have raised them with you and your practice and been ignored.
Michael suddenly came back, weeks later, and unbelievably he was preening and praising himself for having me to stay unregistered for a few weeks in the empty apartment that he'd sold. He was actually patting himself on the back for it, with no mention of how he'd offered me tenancies and then left me back on the streets. He then also tried to insinuate that I was insane, and he was trying to refer me to a charity for people with serious mental health problems. Unbelievable, but Ireland has the legacy of the Magdalene Laundries, where men who wronged women could have them put away to silence them, and this was along those lines. I was obviously going to hurt Michael's professional reputation by being around. He's not a doctor and cannot refute previous assessment which states that I'm nor seriously mentally ill, that I'm mildly autistic, psychologically damaged and struggling with trauma. However, of course, you are his doctor buddy.
You saw me once, to fill in forms so Michael could have me put on disability allowance. You did not do a mental health assessment, you could not legally do one from correspondence to you since then asking you why you gave Michael my personal paperwork, and had you diagnosed me, you would have had to tell me and discuss treatment, so are you such a buddy to Michael that you actually stated that I was seriously mentally ill, and distorted my medical records in order to aid him? You've been asked this, but as you know, since seeing me, you have ignored all correspondence from me, you only saw me to aid your friend's needs. I contacted you as soon as I knew you had given my paperwork to Michael and he was gloating about it, and you not only ignored me, but contacted Michael, your friend, and had him shout at me about contacting you about you giving him my paperwork. You are guilty of serious malpractice even if you didn't illegally diagnose me for Michael, and I still do not know if you did or not, you refuse to respond to correspondence.
I am concerned Michael kept the paperwork to avoid me seeing a misdiagnosis for his purposes. I still do not know, and of course on top of the trauma I'm already suffering, it has added an intolerable load of trauma. When Michael came after me with his ridiculous email, weeks after he'd refused to conclude and shake hands, and made me out to be insane, the trauma was unbearable and my college course was ruined, my closest friendship was ruined as my best friend tried to support me and couldn't because I was too destroyed. You aided Michael in creating a situation where I'm afraid I've been branded with an illness that I don't have. Illegally branded. Can you imagine the trauma? I had expressly told Michael to stop interfering behind my back in my life, and it was clear from his email that he had been doing. As you gave him my personal information, he could contact anyone to make up a story, defame me, and he claims to have so many contacts in government from his old role as chair of a political party at the same time he boasts of having 5000 contacts in his phone and to be able to get people to do as he wants, as in the case of the disability allowance. No one should be above the law, and playing as if he's above the law to seriously harm a vulnerable person, where most of the vulnerable people he's been involved with are essentially voiceless, is very concerning.
I wrote to you, and as usual got no response. I wrote to Michael, who reverted to silence, which is probably a good thing, any more of his smug and arrogant behaviour would be catastrophic, and I wrote to a figure of authority in the locality. The only outcome I can say has ocurred is that Michael is not openly interfering in my life but I remain concerned about covert interference and his abuse of power. And of course the matter of you, Dr Moroney, is not resolved. Why you gave Michael power to abuse me by giving him forms containing confidential personal details which I refused to give him, as well as my medical information, which he had no right to, which you also said you had to exaggerate for the claim, and of course the concern that you have illegally wrongly diagnosed me to meet his needs, as you and he are friends. It is also not clear whether, if you are behaving in underhand ways in conjunction with Michael, if you obtained medical notes from other systems when you had no right to, and enabled Michael to access those. I know you've broken the law and you have caused me catastrophic harm, but the extent is unknown, which is why I go on suffering. I was already suffering severe trauma and this matter has been endlessly harmful to me.
I have asked Michael a number of times for clarification and conclusion, but when he wouldn't conclude before, I should have known better, his email to me, having done as he did, is horrifying, and because of the depth of his involvement in my life, it has taken months to start to come to terms with it, but I haven't come to terms with what you and he did. It's still an open matter. I am human, I have gone on asking for answers and conclusion. Michael should not still hold my medical and personal details. He had every opportunity to give those papers to me, and refused to.
The final reason it appears that Michael was forcing me onto disability allowance was to do with a racket of selling sitting tenants who qualified for HAP and disability, to housing charities and the housing authority, it's unclear why, unless it was easy cash for him. There was a very prompt sale of one of the properties which he involved in his games with me, after he discarded me, whether he put another vulnerable person in there and sold them or not or whether he even owned the place is not known and why he's apparently selling properties very quickly is also a mystery. But if that's what he was doing, why didn't he tell me that was his plan for me if it was just to sell me as a sitting tenant, wouldn't that have been simpler and couldn't he have done that without messing with me so much?! And a man with millions in assets and selling millionsworth of properties doesn't need to mess with vulnerable lives, does he, he can buy anything he needs for his needs.
Your practice have a complaints policy and I made a complaint, about you, about them, and you and they have failed to even respond. I wonder if this letter will encourage you and them towards some clarification and conclusion for me as I live possibly affected for life by an illegal diagnoses and my personal paperwork in the hands of an unstable man who has a penchant for contacting all and sundry illegally about people and using his former political position for power and leverage? I feel vulnerable to Michael continuing to harm me, and I feel very concerned and traumatised by potential false diagnosis that I am unaware of.
Your utter callousness in this matter, refusing to communicate with me and getting Michael to try to silence me, your failure to send my confidential information safely to me, your refusal and your practice's refusal, to even respond to a complaint, is very serious malpractice, you aided Michael in emotionally abusing and destroying me. My reaction is how a traumatised person reacts to being played and duped and having their medical and personal information stolen to amuse a rogue. It was apparent when you struggled to understand my case when you met me, Dr Moroney, and preferred to bring your buddy into the consulting room for a gossip, that you were ready to retire, but with the intercepted medical notes and the resulting harm, you urgently need to step down, and your practice staff who have caused me distress and failed to respond to the complaint raised should reconsider their positions. A patient's safety, confidentiality and dignity come first, there should be no corrupt or underhand actions, and when contacted, you are obliged as a professional to respond. It doesn't matter who paid the fee, it doesn't give you or them a right to behave illegally and harm a vulnerable adult.
I look forward to you behaving honourably and resolving this matter, apologising, and stepping down.
Regards,
