Give me a crash course in... charities’ controversy
Ireland’s charity sector is in the news and, once again, for all the wrong reasons
Department discusses replacing Console services
Call for national strategy to oversee charities sector after series of controversies
Minister needs to decide if Console can continue, says David Hall
Interim boss says ‘no donations are coming in and there is a cost in providing the service’
David Hall has no confidence in Console founder Paul Kelly
Court hears founders engaged in tactical and considered web of deceit and abuse of public money
Console founder ran up €500,000 in credit card bills
Paul Kelly, wife and son spent on items such as groceries, designer clothes and foreign trips
RTÉ programme says Console ‘breached rules’ on director pay
€215,000 payment to Paul Kelly not included in altered accounts given to funders
‘The mastectomy was scary but not that bad in the end’
Patricia Kelly, once of the mega-selling Kelly Family, has gone solo. She talks about Ireland, the migration crisis and surviving the disease that killed her mother
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