The Abbé Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 60.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Cosmetic and plastic surgery clinic in Wilton, Cork, run by two named consultants who are both on the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: plasticsurgery_ie, 18 September 2026 — IAPS member list names Mr Jason Kelly and Mr Sean T O’Sullivan; the association’s own statement about the Specialist Register is a secondary source, so the finding is carried in facts[] and M1 is not scored. ISAPS find-a-surgeon for Ireland answers HTTP 200 with a client-rendered shell (no surgeon rows in the HTML) and is left to the operator’s browser pass. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: ftp_notices, 18 September 2026 — No publication notice names this clinic’s physicians, so the one openly readable source of an Irish registration number (“Reg No.…” in a notice) returns nothing for them, and the clinic publishes no IMC number of its own. The register search was re-probed on 2026-09-18 (GET + the documented WebForms POST, surname echoed back) and still renders “You must answer the reCAPTCHA” with zero rows. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 18 September 2026 — Every leg run: 0 rows for the centre name, 0 rows for the street address, and the clinic is not among the 27 Healthcare centres HIQA lists for Cork. HIQA registers designated centres, monitors HSE-funded services and private hospitals and regulates medical ionising radiation; Ireland has no licence class for a cosmetic or aesthetic clinic, so the absence carries no finding about this clinic. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Scan of the clinic’s own pages (home page, our-services, an individual procedure page and contact page) finds no legal entity named: the site trades under its brand and publishes neither a company name with a legal form nor a CRO number. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Consultants are named and stated to be IAPS members; no Medical Council registration numbers are published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative heading (‘Professional Excellence’) on the clinic's own page, without an outcome or safety guarantee. [site] Professional Excellence |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. No consent, risk, revision-policy or complaint-route information found on the pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Jason Kelly [site] [iaps] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
| Mr Sean T O'Sullivan [site] [iaps] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECMr Jason Kelly and Mr Sean T O'Sullivan named on the IAPS membership list (association/secondary source); the Medical Council Specialist Register itself is reCAPTCHA-gated and could not be queried, so this axis is capped at secondary provenance.[iaps]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons lists Mr Jason Kelly in its published member list.
[iaps]Jason Kelly FRCSI, FRCS (Plast) BCh MD
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons lists Mr Sean T O’Sullivan in its published member list.
[iaps]Sean T O’Sullivan FRCSI, FRCS(Plast) MD
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://theabbeclinic.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 21 4343404 |
| Address | 4a Harley Court, Block B, Whiteoaks, Sarsfield Road, Wilton, Cork |
| City | Cork |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://theabbeclinic.ie/ | clinic's own site | identifiability, address, named physicians, roles, treatment menu | 31 August 2026 |
| iaps | https://www.plasticsurgery.ie/find-a-surgeon/ | secondary | Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list names Mr Jason Kelly and Mr Sean T O'Sullivan; the list states members are "on the Specialist Register in Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery, of the Medical Council" — an association claim, not the register itself (which is reCAPTCHA-gated). | 31 August 2026 |
| ftp | https://www.medicalcouncil.ie/complaints/past-inquiries/ | official register | Fitness to Practise Inquiry Notifications index and all 19 year pages (2008–2026) fetched and checked; no notice names "Kelly" or "O'Sullivan" tied to a plastic surgery practice. | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (M5 ladder re-read under v1.2: the clinic names no legal entity on its own pages, so the axis is brand-only (2); a company located in the register on our side does not raise it) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the HIQA Find a Centre register, all three legs (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Secondary route run for the closed medical licence register (FtP publication notices, v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Secondary route run for the closed specialist register (IAPS member list, v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 31 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.