About Us
Portmarnock Family Practice is a modern, computerised surgery and is a recognised teaching practice for UCD and RCSI undergraduate and graduate entry medical students. It is also a training practice for postgraduate GP training affiliated with the UCD / Dublin Mid Leinster GP training programme so we have a GP Registrar working as part of the team.
The surgery is wheelchair and buggy friendly. The waiting room has a play area for children and has cool filtered water on tap. There are baby changing facilities on site and there is free car parking facilities to the rear of the practice.

Meet The Team

Dr Valerie Flood
MB BCh BAO DCH GDipDerm MICGP
Dr. Valerie Flood is a University College Dublin graduate and completed her GP vocational training in Ireland. She is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners and is currently on the Specialist Register with the medical council. She holds diplomas in Child Health, Dermatology and has additional family planning qualifications. Her Special interests include Dermatology, Women's Health, Maternity Care, Paediatrics and Preventative Medicine. She is also trained in long acting contraceptive device insertion.

Dr Sarah Short
MB BCh BAO DRCOG DCP Dip ISORM MICGP
Dr Sarah Short is from Portmarnock and graduated from Trinity College Dublin. She completed the RCSI Dublin North East GP Training Scheme in 2017. She is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners. She has postgraduate qualifications in Women's Health, Psychiatry and Musculoskeletal Medicine. Special interests include breast feeding and musculoskeletal medicine including joint injection. She is enjoying the opportunity to serve her own community in Portmarnock.

Dr Keara Clarke
MB BCh BAO DRCOG BSc Hum Nut MRCS MICGP
Dr. Keara is a graduate of UCD School of Medicine with a special interest in women's health. She initially completed Core Surgical Training before completing the Dublin Mid Leinster GP Training Scheme (UCD), working in paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergency medicine, medicine for the elderly, psychiatry and endocrinology during her training. Dr. Keara holds extra qualifications in women's health, contraception, cervical smear taking, STI checks and in palliative care. She has a keen interest in health and wellbeing and holds a first class honours degree in Nutrition & Dietetics from Trinity College Dublin.

Dr Andrew Jones
MB BCh BAO MRCS LFOM MICGP
Dr. Andrew is a graduate of UCD School of Medicine. After completing his internship in St James's Hospital, he spent a number of years working as a hospital Doctor in Perth, Western Australia. Dr. Andrew completed core Surgical training before undertaking vocational training in General Practice with the RCSI Dublin North East scheme. He is a member of the Irish College of General Practitioners and holds post graduate qualifications in Dermatology and Occupational Health.

Dr. Fiona Ryan
MB BCh BAO (Trinity College Dublin)
Dr Fiona Ryan is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine and is currently a fourth year registrar on the Trinity GP Scheme. She has a interest on women's health and has post graduate qualifications in paediatrics and in family planning.

Practice Nurse Ms. Shona O Rourke RGN
Ms. Shona O'Rourke is our practice nurse. After training in the London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Shona worked in St. James Hospital and in women's health in the Family Planning Clinic.
Nurse Shona works on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. She runs phlebotomy (blood testing) services and holds childhood immunisation clinics. She carries out regular check ups for Asthma and Diabetic chronic disease management.
Other services include: Cervical smear testing, travel vaccinations, flu vaccinations, depo and vitamin B12 injections, wound dressings, Chicken Pox vaccination, Meningitis B vaccinations, blood pressure checks, 24 hour blood pressure monitoring.
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Practice Nurse, Ms. Orla Traynor RGN
Ms Orla Traynor has joined us as part of the practice team. She has extensive nursing experience working for many years in Mater Hospital in General Medical and General surgical wards and in Rehabilitation and Geriatric Medicine.
She is available on Thursdays and Fridays, providing a full range of nursing services including phlebotomy clinics, baby vaccinations, smear testing , chronic disease management , blood pressure monitoring and more.

Mrs Susan Hopkins Practice Manager
Our Administrative Staff

Mrs Caroline Mulhern

Ms. Aisling Neville

Mrs Catherine McCourt

Mrs Marie Burnett
Portmarnock Family Practice
