About Paul

Paul was born in 1949 and grew up in Newcastle, County Down which is a seaside town on the east coast of Northern Ireland. After primary and post primary education he moved to Dublin to study medicine at Dublin University (also known as Trinity College Dublin). He graduated in 1975 with an honours degree in paediatrics. After hospital work in Ireland, he moved to South Australia, where he continued his medical training. From mid-1977 to 1982 he worked in a family practice with a hospital attachment in Gawler, a bustling town north of Adelaide. He returned to Ireland in 1984 and opened his own medical practice in South Dublin. Five years later, he was joined by a medical colleague, and together they recruited, expanded, and relocated over the next ten years. Paul retired from clinical practice in 2020, leaving behind Slievemore Clinic, a prestigious frontline multi-disciplinary medical facility.

Between 1984 and 2020, while running his practice, Paul wrote health and children’s books and six bestselling medical thrillers. Between 1995 and 1996, he edited Irish Doctor, a glossy monthly magazine. He combined his own lead articles with clinical material, taking the magazine to its highest-ever readership.

Between 1996 and 2004, Paul battled a rare blood disorder (chronic cold agglutinin haemolytic anaemia) that progressed to Lymphatic Leukaemia in 1999. He became seriously unwell and underwent chemotherapy from 2003 until mid-2004. During that time, he was unable to practise but continued writing. He has been in remission since Autumn 2004.

Paul lives in South Dublin.