Mary Frances Murphy (O'Dea?)

She claims on Official Documents to be legally married to a Matthew (the Pratt) Michael O'Dea

Nobody in her family, including her mother and siblings, knows of such a marriage

No such marriage appears to be registered in Ireland!

If she is not legally married, why perjur herself on Official Documents?

Her father left most of his estate to a Frances O'Dea. Has this got something to do with it?

Why did her father think that Matt and Frances were legally married?

FEBRUARY 2012

Frances Murphy, or whatever name she is calling herself this month, and Matthew Michael O'Dea have been ordered by Ms. Susan Ryan of the Dublin Circuit Court to deliver their Defence by Match 6th, 2012. So far, they have failed to put in a Defense (This site can only wonder why!) and tried to claim in their last court appearance that there was no residue due to the plaintiff as her mother, Sheila Murphy, was entitled to any and all such residue.

If you are an Irish journalist or a member of An Garda Siochana and wish to obtain more information, see bottom of page for contact information.

JANUARY 2012

Frances Murphy, and her co-executor Matthew Michael O'Dea for the estate of the late Henry Murphy are due back in the Dublin Circuit Court on January 23rd, 2012. The case will be heard in Court 33, Ground Floor, The Four Courts, Dublin at 10.15am. It is the 23rd case on the docket for that day. In early December 2011, they were given additional time by the same Court to answer a civil complaint against them regarding failure to pay her siblings what they were entitled to under the terms of her late father's will. So far, they have failed to put in a defense so it probable that they will be ordered by the Courts to disburse the residues to the beneficiaries without delay or face imprisonment.

By the way, Frances did not bother taking her mother out of Raheny Community Nursing Unit to her own home in Sutton for dinner on Christmas Day. Apparantly, most other residents of the nursing home were taken out by their relatives for this important family occasion. Nor did she bother (as is her pattern) to inform her other siblings when her mother was recently rushed to Beaumont Hospital with a suspected stoke.

This case should be of vital interest to everybody in Ireland because if executors of a valid Irish will can simply ignore the contents of the will and thumb their noses up at the legal beneficiaries of the will, then there is something rotten with the whole Irish legal system. It is time that the law was changed and severe penalties are imposed on such executors.

DECEMBER 2011

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all our regular readers in the Depatment of Justice, An Garda Siochana, Dublin, Port Laoise, Cork, Galway and elsewhere.

New legislation regarding elder care is scheduled to be introduced in the Dail in early 2012. Please let your TDs know that you would like it to be called Shiela's Law.

Despite the fact that she has had nearly six months to prepare her defense, Frances has been given another six weeks to prepare a formal defense. Her next court date is 23rd January 2012. It will be interesting to see what legal defense she comes up with to justify her actions as an executor of her late father's estate. I suspect Frances is going to be a regular fixture in the Irish court system for a while!

A formal complaint against Frances Murphy by one of her siblings has been now lodged with Howth Garda Station. A number of serious issues have been documented in this complaint. She should be getting a visit from a couple of Gardai shortly together with an invitation to visit her local Garda Station for questioning. Oh, and Frances, stop taking the photographs that others give to your mother. That is just downright mean spirited and cruel!

2012 does not look like being a very good year for Frances! The tables have been turned on her. This time last year, Frances and her lover, Matthew Michael O'Dea, were busy trying to destroy her siblings will to stand up to her and their ability to investigate her actions over that last number of years. Well ... that backfired on her and only made her siblings more determined than ever to the bottom of the matter.

NOVEMBER 2011

Update for those who want to attend the Court hearings: Case number is 2011/005856. Scheduled for Monday, December 5th at 10.15am in Court 33, First Floor, Four Courts, Dublin.

When siblings went to see their mother at Howth Hill Lodge Nursing Home some weeks ago, they discovered that their mother, Sheila Murphy, was no longer a resident there but had "gone home". When the siblings enquired about this, the staff refused to provide any information whatsoever claiming that they did not want to get in the middle of a family dispute. Why did that staff at this nursing home think there was a family dispute over Shiela Murphy? What lies had Frances Murphy/Frances O'Dea/Mary Frances Murphy-O'Dea, or whatever name she is using this month, told them? Naturally, the douchebag did not bother to inform her other siblings that she had moved her mother or where she had moved her to.

Well, Frances, do you really think your other siblings are just going to sit back and let you do this sort of thing on an ongoing basis? You are just digging a bigger hole for yourself! Oh, and by the way, Sheila Murphy was recently located not at home but in Raheny Community Nursing Unit. A place there currently costs EU1296 per week. As is her modus operandi, apparantly once again Frances has gven the staff there the impression that she is an only sibling. She would appear to be seriously delusional! Once again her siblings will have to inform the people looking after Sheila that, contrary to whatever Frances may say, there are actually three other siblings who are interested in their mother's welfare.

In case you are interested, Frances Murphy (and her partner Matt O' Dea) is due to appear in the Dublin Circuit Court on December 5th 2011 to answer a civil complaint by one of her siblings as to why she is refusing to distribute the residue of her father's Will in accordance with the wishes of her father as expressed in his Last Will and Testament. Perhaps by then she will have found her marriage certificate to show the Judge. Somehow I doubt it since Matt is only judicially separated from his wife. If he married you, he is a bigamist. By the way, Frances, better ask Matt if he ever admitted to anybody that he was not married to you first before you consider perjuring yourself again! These people are known to your siblings and will be called upon to testify as to what Matt said. Oh, and by the way, this site has formally confirmed that Matt is only judicially separated from his wife - not divorced.

By the way, here are copies of differing versions of the accounts for the Estate of Henry Murphy.

Poor old Matt is apparantly out of pocket by some EU53167.20! He put in an undocumented claim for this amount as expenses and it appeared on a statement of account dated November 1st 2010. Perhaps Frances and her lover, Matt, will not be going to the Cavan Fleadh this year as a result or he will not be able to purchase the necessary meds to control the twitching eye, the random shakes and drooling so he can dance a fine jig with some young girl without her running for the hills.

Interestingly, the executors have padded the expenses with all sorts of things which have nothing to do with the funeral or testamentary expenses of Henry Murphy. One year anniversary cards at EU400.00. Are you sure that they really cost this amount, Matt? The charge for legal fees for Sheila Murphy relating to Ward of Court application has clearly nothing to do with funeral or testamentary expenses. Having a fine meal at Lawless Hotel is not a funeral or testamentary expense. I am sure you, the reader, can spot many more expenses that are not funeral or testamentary expenses. Hay from John Smith? Sure it was not for Matt's horses? Of course the best of all the disbursements is the payment of EU5000 to a dead man, Henry Murphy, for "weekly care 2004-2009". Meals at Lawless Hotel? How are meals a funeral expense. Since when was a headstone a funeral or testamentary expense? And such a round figure of EU5000 for the headstone! I suspect many people would be very happy to get such a headstone from a funeral director for only that price! Creative accounting at its best! This site is frankly amazed that a well established solicitor and a pillar of the Arklow community such as Cathal Louth would have anything to do with such obvious creative accounting. Among other things, Cathal Louth is also coroner for Wicklow East, a member of the Arklow Bridge Club and a member of the Arklow and District Chamber.

Looking for any and all information about a Mary Frances Murphy, who goes by the name of Frances Murphy at work and elsewhere in Dublin, as Mrs Frances O'Dea in Carnew, Co Wicklow and the surrounding area and as Mary Frances Murphy O'Dea or Mary Frances O'Dea when signing papers relating to her late father's estate, in order to present to the Irish Courts proof that she is not legally married to a Matt O'Dea and that there is no such legal person as Frances O'Dea as far as the Will of her late father is concerned.

Frances Murphy was born in Salthill, Co Galway, on March 29th 1953 but grew up in Raheny, Dublin 5, where she attended Manor House School in Raheny, Belgrove in Clontarf, and finally Holy Rosary in Edenmore. At present she is a lecturer in the School of Informatics & Engineering at IT Blanchardstown, Dublin. She is also one of two external examiners for a number of primary degrees at the Dundalk IT School of Infomatics and Creative Arts. Prior to that, she was a lecturer at IT Carlow - probably until sometime in 2006. She may have taught at Maynooth also. Prior jobs include stints at the Department of Social Welfare, Central Bank and as a National School teacher at Bayside national school. When Frances was a trainee teacher at Georges Hill primary school in the last 1970s, a young student mentioned that they knew Frances's sister because their mother was a friend of the sister. It is claimed that Frances told the student, in front of the whole class, that she had no sister. She trained to become a teacher for 2 years at St Patrick College, Drumcondra. She also studied computer science part-time over a period of 4 years at Trinity College Dublin. For a number of years in the 1980s, Frances worked for and eventually managed English summer programs for Spanish teens at University College Dublin.

Upon the death of her father, Henry (Harry) Murphy, in February 2009, Frances Murphy claimed that she was legally married to a Matthew (Matt) Michael O'Dea -see here and here. However she never told anybody on the Murphy side of the family except her father that she was married - not even her mother! Apparantly at one time Matt and Frances told her late father that they was going to Rome to get married. They also told her father that they was going to Cork on their honeymoon and her father rang somebody in Cork to ask could Frances and Matt visit. It came as a great surprise to her poor mother and her three other siblings to learn after the death of her father that she was claiming to be married and, according to what she apparently told at least one public nurse, has a family of her own and no siblings. In front of other siblings, she refused to tell her mother where and when she got married or show her mother any photographs of the wedding when asked. Why not tell your siblings and mother that you are getting married? Better still, why not invite them to the happy occasion? Why refuse to disclose details of where and when the marriage occured when requested by her mother and siblings? What purpose does it serve not to disclose this information? A check with the General Register Office Ireland failed to locate a marriage certificate. There is no annotation on Frances' baptismal certificate or confirmation certificate that she ever married. No Court Exemption Order appears to have even been granted to allow her to marry aboard. No Certificate of Freedom to Marry (Certificate de Coutume) appears to ever have been issued by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Unfortunately, as a result of Frances' ongoing refusal to provide any information to her mother and siblings and no offical record of the marriage available in Ireland, a rational person can only come to one conclusion - Frances is not married! The man she claims to be legally married to, Matt O'Dea, was born in 1946 in Ennis, Co Clare, became a Secondary School teacher sometime in his 20s, and married a Hannah Mulcahy of Newmarket, Co Cork, in Cork City in 1973. He and Hannah have three children. See Matthew Michael O'Dea for further information about this married man. No death certificate is on file at the GRO for his wife. Neither is there an official record of a divorce.

Frances' father had been in St Vincents Hospital, Dublin, since December 28th 2008 but Frances never bothered to inform her siblings of that fact. The siblings only learned that their father was on death's door by accident few days before he died. The other siblings had to search the hospitals in Dublin to locate which hospital he was in. Even that turned out to be interesting! Henry Murphy was registered under his Irish name and Frances was named as sole relative. By the way, Frances was incapable of calling her father by his real name; she always referred to and addressed him as Murf.

At the funeral of her late father and for a period of time thereafter, when asked by her siblings, Frances Murphy claimed to have no knowledge of a will or who the executors were. Subsequently it was discovered by her siblings that this was an untruth as Frances and Matt had taken her father on January 29th 2007 to see a Maria Byrne of C.J.Louth and Son, Solicitors, Arklow (no website), to consult with her regarding either willing her father's property to her or transferring the property to her. The same day a short will was drawn up and signed by her father leaving the vast majority of his property to his daughter Frances O'Dea (not Frances, Mary Frances, Frances Murphy, or Mary Frances Murphy) and appointing "my daughter Frances O'Dea and my son-in-law Matt O'Dea to be joint executors." No provision whatsoever was made in the will for his elderly and frail wife Sheila. According to an attendence docket prepared by another solicitor, David A. Tarrant of Tarrant and Tarrant, Arklow, Co. Wicklow, Frances and Matt represented themselves to Maria Byrne as being a married couple. What happens if Frances and Matt are found by the courts not to be married and to have deliberately deceived Henry Murphy? What happens to the Commissioner for Oaths, Peter Mills of Peter Mills Property, Arklow, who attested that he personally knew a Frances O'Dea?

Her father was Henry (Harry) Murphy who died on February 22nd 2009. The funeral mass was held with indecent haste two days later at Coolafancy RC church (St Marys) officiated by a country curate named William Byrne. For some reason or other that curate felt it appropriate to tell mourners from the altar about what a great job Matt O'Dea had done in handling Henry's finances over the last few years of his life. This came as news to Frances' three other siblings as they were of the firm understanding that Henry handled all his own financial affairs. Matt also told one of the siblings that their father used to send him to the priest at Coolafancy with money every week. Anybody who knew Henry knows that Henry would not give a penny to the church if he could help it! See the meager death notice published by her at rip.ie. Incidently, her three other siblings had to scramble to publish a death notice in an Irish national newspaper when they discovered that Frances had not bothered to do so. They felt that their father's many friends, former work collegues and acquantances had the right to know of his death.

At the Month's Mind mass for her father she was observed to be wearing a like new wedding ring by a number of people. She was like a new bride - fingering, touching and twisting the ring constantly. Obviously not used to wearing a wedding ring! She was not wearing that ring at the funeral of her father nor has she been seen to wear it elsewhere.

Her mother is Sheila (Julia) Murphy. Sheila still lives at the family home, i.e. 73 St Assams Ave, Raheny, Dublin 5. Unfortunately her mother does not have the right to enjoy that property in her old age as the house was transferred by her father to Frances in December 2002 with her mother being merely given the right of residence for all of her natural life. Unbelievably it would appear that her mother received no independent legal advise before waiving her legal rights to this transaction. It appears that the solicitor that handled the transaction, Mona O'Leary of Lockhart O'Leary Maher, Solicitors, Killester, Dublin, did not require Sheila to obtain independent legal advise. Given the age and poor health of her mother and the valuable property rights that she was signing away, no solicitor in his/her right mind would have allowed Sheila to sign away her property rights just like that in exchange for merely a right of residence in the family home until her death. No compensation, no right of quiet enjoyment, no right to basic needs being met, etc. The other siblings were not informed of the transfer of the family house to Frances as apparently her mother was sworn to secrecy, especially about not informing the other siblings, by Frances.

Upon obtaining the house in Raheny where her mother lived, one of Frances Murphy's first acts was to remove all the beds from the house except for the bed of her mother. This appears to have been done so as to make it difficult for her other siblings to stay overnight with their mother to keep her company from time to time. One sibling resorted to sleeping in a sleeping bag on the floor when visiting from abroad just to enable the sibling to spend more time with their own mother. What was Frances's response? She claimed that the sibling was cheap and trying to cheat on their travel expenses! Why would Frances want to limit access by the other siblings to her mother? Perhaps being first born has something to do with it. Maybe Frances is still jealous about some of the spotlight being taken from her that she thinks she deserved as the first born. Still, that is no excuse. It is a terrible thing for a daughter to try and stop her other siblings from having a relationship with their elderly mother!

When Frances' other siblings learned that their mother was not included in the Will of their late father, they consulted with a solicitor and discovered that their mother was entitled by Irish law to one third of the estate of their late father under section 115 of the Succession Act 1965. The executors, Frances and Matt O'Dea, stated on the Internal Revenue Affidavit dated July 8th, 2009 that her mother "has not elected under S.115". Subsequently, Frances and Matt O'Dea attempted to cover up this blatant untruth by giving her mother a Notification of Right of Election dated September 29th 2009. Of course, unlike her three siblings who were quite happy to offer their full share of the Will to their mother, to the best of our knowledge Frances never offered to give anything from the Will to her mother. Shame on you Frances for being so greedy; you will most certainly die alone without any of your family at your side.

On Saturday morning, October 17th 2009, one of Frances Murphy's siblings was visiting their mother at 73 St Assams Ave, Raheny, when Frances arrived at the house. During a heated discussion between Frances and her sibling, Frances because enraged and attempted to hit her sibling but the sibling blocked the assault. Frances went to her solicitor, Cathel Louth of C.J. Louth & Son, claimed she was seriously assaulted, and as a result the following letter was written to the other siblings solicitor. If Frances was seriously assaulted as she claimed, how come she needed no medical treatment? Why was the serious assault not reported to the Gardai? Could it be that her claim to have been seriously assaulted would not stand up to close examination? The record shows that Frances is quick enough filing multipage complaints about her siblings with the Gardai! How did Cathal Louth know that the incident had a shocking effect on her mother Sheila Murphy? Did he actually talk to her or simply rely on what Frances and/or Matt O'Dea told him without verifying any of the facts? Perhaps, as her other siblings have surmised, this was really an attempt by Frances to discourage her siblings from visiting or having any contact with their elderly mother.

In a letter to the her siblings' solicitor dated June 22nd 2010, Frances Murphy (note - not Frances O'Dea!) stated that if this website was not removed immediately that she was going to write to the employer of one of the her siblings about this website and that the "authorities of ITB, Blanchardstown (where I am a lecturer) regard the postings on these websites as a dismissable offence, for any member of staff, and are appalled that a person in xxxxxxxxx (the siblings profession) might be associated in setting up same. They are prepared, with my permission, to take up the matter with xxxxxxxxxxxxx" (the siblings employer.) Well, Frances, that is called tortious interference with an employee-employer relationship. It would be extremely surprising and highly unusual for the management of IT Blanchardstown or for that matter any employer to get involved in the private affairs of an employee. Still, deep pockets are always welcome in a defendent. If indeed the management of IT Blanchardstown was prepared to write to the silbing's employer, they will have great difficulty defending that particular decision in a court of law. Despite several letters to IT Banchardstown, no offical confirmation had been received to date as to whether what Frances stated in her letter is true or not. Perhaps the management of IT Blanchardstown should be more concerned about Frances using the email system at IT Blanchardstown to harangue her siblings' solicitor. In most establishments that would be an immediate dismissable offence.

Frances Murphy and Matt O'Dea are currently the executors of the estate of her deceased father but are refusing to pay out the residues from the estate to her siblings because of this website which seeks the truth on her alleged marriage. As a result and with a heavy heart, I have decided to be more open and inform the public about the activities of Mary Frances Murphy. I will document in detail her behaviour and activities towards her siblings and mother and expose her for whom she really is. Hopefully an Irish newspaper will pick up the story, investigate for itself and run with it.

Please email any information you might have about Frances Murphy in strict confidence to tellus@francesodea.info. Even if it seems trivial to you, it might be helpful to us. Any information on claims to be married that she has made are especially welcome. Her siblings and mother are convinced that she is not married but has just been living in sin with Matt O'Dea for the last 15 years or so. Both of them give the outword appearance of devout Roman Catholics, first in line for Holy Communion and all of that sort of thing. Guess that this is just for public consumption because if Frances and Matt were true adherents to the tenents of the Roman Catholic Church they would not be receiving Holy Communion while apparently living together in sin.

She owns at least the following properties in Ireland:

• 46 The Crescent, Binn Eadair View, Sutton, Dublin 13
• 73 St Assams Ave, Raheny, Dublin 5
• 18 Coves Brook, Carnew, Co. Wicklow

Of course then there is, as Matt O'Dea called it "the bit of land at Coolroe", that a Frances O'Dea inherited from the late Henry Murphy. This is approximately 14 hectares or 34-1/2 acres. Strange how the size of the land appears to have shrunk for the purposes of the Revenue Affidavit or how the land appears to be valued at its least potential value. Naturally Frances had this land transferred into one of her names (Mary Frances Murphy O'Dea) quite quickly - never mind her own duties as executor. It was registered in the name of Mary Francis Murphy O'Dea in February 2010. I wonder what happens to this land if it turns out that there is no such legal person (which is very likely given what this site is aware of but cannot publicly divulge to protect the source of the information) as Mary Frances Murphy O'Dea and thus the transfer was fradulent?

Why is Matt trying to purchase the field marked X on the above diagram? Is he planning to build houses on former lands of his "father-in-law"? Keep an eye on planning applications submitted to Wicklow County Council, folks!

The first anniversary of Henry Murphy's death was in February 2010. Frances did not bother to consult with her other siblings or inform them of where or when the anniversary mass would be held. She (and Matt?) prepared and distributed the following anniversary card to a select few but again did not send or give any to her siblings.

Along with the anniversity card was a little slip of paper inviting them to the anniversary mass that Saturday at 7.30pm in Coolafancy RC church. The cards were delivered by hand by Frances and Matt. The 100 cards were designed by Matt with apparantly no input from Frances. The estate of Henry Murphy was billed for these cards even though they had nothing to do with funeral expenses.

Some of the siblings found out about the anniversary mass and attended it. Frances, you really did not think that nobody was going to tell us and give us a copy of the anniversary card, did you? Of course, as expected, Frances and Matt totally ignored her siblings.

September 2010, Father's Grave, Coolafancy Church, Co Wicklow

October 2011, Father's Grave, Coolafancy Church, Co Wicklow

This is a rather strange inscription. Henry Murphy was not a member of any armed service nor did he fight in the First World War. The Ode of Remembrance is an ode taken from Laurence Binyon's poem "For the Fallen", which was first published in The Times in September 1914.

CHRISTMAS DAY 2010 - INTERVENTION OF GARDA SIOCHANA REQUIRED TO ASCERTAIN LOCATION OF SHEILA MURPHY

In recent days relatives of Sheila Murphy, who lives alone in Raheny, Dublin 5 became concerned about her well-being as she was not answering her phone. A visit to the house by a relative confirmed that the house appeared to be unoccupied or that the occupant was incapacitated inside. There were no tracks in the snow by the house, exhaust from the central heating furnace, etc.

One of Sheila Murphy's granddaughters phoned Frances Murphy's mobile phone on Christmas Day to enquire about her grandmother. The mobile phone was answered by Matt O'Dea, the alleged husband, who immediately launched into a loud tirade against the Ward of Count application for Sheila Murphy earlier this year on the grounds of dementia. Matt O'Dea was very aggressive towards the granddaughter and refused to say where Sheila Murphy was. He stated that Frances and he were perfectly capable of looking after Sheila and that she was in good hands.

In view of the refusal by Matt O'Dea to provide information on the whereabouts of Sheila Murphy, the assistance of the Garda Siochana was requested. Matt O'Dea was visited by a Garda late at night at his house in Carnew, Co Wicklow, whereupon he disclosed that Sheila Murphy was in a hospital in Dublin.

A search of Dublin hospitals revealed that Sheila Murphy was admitted to Beaumont Hospital in Dublin on December 18th with a fractured femur. Beaumont Hospital was most reluctant to provide information to the other siblings as Frances Murphy was listed as sole next of kin.

Shame on you Frances Murphy and Matt O'Dea for not bothering to inform her other children of her hospitalization.

JANUARY 11th, 2011 - ATTEMPT AT COERCION BY MATT O'DEA AND FRANCES MURPHY

Wonders never cease! Matt O'Dea and Frances Murphy apparently think that they can ignore the basic duties and obligations of executors of a will in Ireland and attach conditions to the administration of an estate.

APRIL 2011

Sheila Murphy, Frances' mother, is still in Beaumont Hospital. Just passed the 100 day mark now! Not much wrong with her now medically except for dementia and the usual problems of old age. She is much healthier now than when she first presented at the hospital. Much more flesh on her old bones! Much more social interaction! As usual, Frances gave the impression to the hospital staff that she was the only child. No mention was made of her other siblings interest in their mother's welfare. Why, Frances, were the staff very surprised recently to learn that there were other siblings who were very interested in the welfare of their mother?

So why has Sheila not been released from hospital, you may well ask? It would appear that Beaumont hospital is very reluctant to release her to return to 73 St Assams Ave given the unsuitable living conditions there. Unfortunately there is not much that Sheila can do about that since she does not own the property (see above); she only has a right of residence. Frances, your siblings all hope that you are upgrading your property so that your mother can live out her life in some modicum of comfort and dignity? By the way, Frances, where has all the money that Sheila had accumulated over the years gone? Was it included in the Fair Deal calculations?

Well it looks like Frances' partner, Matt O' Dea, has difficulty controlling himself and believes he is above the law. Some months ago he verbally assaulted one of Frances' siblings who was visiting their mother in Beaumont Hospital and was only stopped by the spouse of the sibling directly confronting him. On Saturday, April 16th, 2011 another sibling was visiting their mother in the hospital when Matt O'Dea came into the ward and started agressively shouting at the sibling in front of their mother about the Ward of Court application. Evidently Matt, with his chest stuck out, was also mouthing on about that he is longer going to put up with being bullied. The sibling was forced to threaten to call Security and have him ejected to shut him up. Frances grabbed Matt and pulled him away.

If Matt O'Dea thinks this is acceptable behaviour in a semi-public place like a hospital ward, what does he think is acceptable behaviour when there is nobody to witness his behaviour? Sheila Murphy cowered in fear and became confused. A reasonable person has to ask the question - is this a learned behaviour for Sheila Murphy? Does Matt O'Dea try to dominate and control (bully?) Sheila Murphy? Frances has been witnessed verbally abusing her mother and treating her as if she were a two year old child. Perhaps Matt O'Dea has learned to bully Sheila from Frances. It is rather strange and delusional that Matt thinks that he is the one being bullied. Is Frances bullying him? Poor man if this is the case. Maybe Matt is still suffering from the recent horse kick he received. Perhaps mouthing off is why the horse kicked him!

MAY 2011

Sheila Murphy is still at Beaumont Hospital under the care of Mr Turlough O'Donnell, a consultant orthopeadic surgeon. Why is she still in hospital? Why is Frances Murphy not advising her siblings about what is happening to their mother? Guess her siblings need to get a court order to force Beaumont Hospital and Frances to divulge the information.

Perhaps some history would be illustrative here. When Sheila's husband, Henry Murphy, dies in February 2009 three of her four children were so concerned about her mental and physical condition that they engaged the services of a solictor to prepare an application to make Sheila a Ward of Court so that she was protected in her elder years. In fact, Sheila was unable to attend her husband's funeral because of a serious fall while alone in Raheny. She is a bit vague about what happened to her; something to do with helping a cat.

Frances initially stated that she was not opposed to Sheila being made a Ward of Court but it quickly became evident that she was totally opposed to it as ongoing appointments with a consultant in geriatric and general medicine at Beaumont Hospital, Dr Ciaran F. Donegan, were cancelled without notice. Dr Donegan maintains a high profile in the world of geriatrics in Ireland, He was the 2008 chair of the (Irish) National Council on Ageing and Older People.

On June 3rd 2010, Mona O Leary of Lockhart O'Leary Maher, Killester, wrote to the other siblings solicitor stating that "we have been formally instructed by Mrs Sheila Murphy with regard to the attempt ... to have her made a Ward of Court. Please note that we are instructed to oppose any such application." Did Mona O Leary actually discuss these instructions with Sheila Murphy in person and outside the presence of Frances Murphy and/or Matt O Dea?

Subsequently the other siblings were informed that Sheila has been assessed by Dr Donegan and, based on an assessment by him at his clinic on 21st June 2010, that she is "orientated in time and place and has very good insight into her abilities and the day to day management of her care", and this in his option "Mrs Sheila Murphy does not need to be made a Ward of Court at this time."

Interestingly, Dr Donegan stated in his letter that he discussed an Enduring Power of Attorney with Sheila. Since when were physicians authorized to practice law in Ireland? Perhaps Dr Donegan should have confined himself to a medical assessment of Sheila Murphy and not made a general statement that she did not need to be made a Ward of Court at that time. Surely that determination should have been made by a court of legal competency with all the facts in front of them.

Perhaps Dr Donegan could explain why Sheila presented to Beaumont Hospital a few months later in a very confused state and with a broken femur and why she has extremely poor short term memory. To this day she cannot recall her fall and uses a notebook to write down things so that she can remember them.

And why is it that Sheila has not been released from Beaumont Hospital if, as according to him, "she is linked in to the local community services and has contact with her daughter Frances, who lives nearly, who phones her daily and calls to the house either daily or every second day"? How did Dr Donegan verify these assertions? I suspect he did not do any third party verification these facts. Dr Donegan, a word of advise, a prudent rule is - trust but verify!

Why is it that Frances, who vigorously opposed the Ward of Court application by her other siblings, made sure that she got an Enduring Power of Attorney (EPOA) put in place in 2010 giving her sole control of the welfare of Sheila Murphy and her assets should she deem it prudent? Oh, and why is she called Frances Murphy and not Frances O'Dea or Mary Frances Murphy-O'Dea in the EPOA? Probably because her mother knows she is not married so there was no point in trying to use her "married" name. By the way, her mother to this day is one hundred percent certain that Frances is not married and she should know. Why is Frances afraid of letting the other siblings share in the care of their mother or even knowing what is going on? What is she trying to hide? Why is Matt O'Dea not in there with Francis as an additional attorney? Probably gone gun shy and does not want to get into any more potential problems with the law. His experience at Howth Garda Station last year may have been enough for him.

Why is it that Frances systematically removes anything that any of the other siblings give to their mother in the hospital? Does Frances not understand that what is given to Sheila by other siblings belongs to Sheila and she has no right whatsoever to take these things from Sheila? Perhaps a complaint needs to be made to the Garda Siochana about this strange and amoral behavour. Why does Frances feel the need to deprive her mother of everything she gets from others? Has she no compassion at all for her mother? Perhaps, for some strange reason, she has a need for her mother to think that she is the only provider of food, shelter and companionship.

Well, Matt (and Frances) still continue to refuse to give Frances' other siblings the money that is due them under their late father's Will. Guess neither of them understand the High Court Oath they took as executors to "faithfully administer" the Estate of Henry Murphy. It would now appear that neither Matt or Frances ever had any intention of giving Frances's siblings what bequeathed to them by their late father. Greed knows no bounds! It would also appear that they seem to think they are smarter then anybody else and above the law of the land. Well ... the law in Ireland works slowly but surely. The bloodhounds have been unleashed and the hunt is now on. Maybe when Frances and Matt are standing in the dock of a District Court before a judge, they will finally realise that Irish law actually does apply to them also. What a comedown that will be!

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