Atlantic pulls the plug on ethics body
Howard Lake | 8 December 2005 | News
Atlantic Philanthropies, one of the largest charitable foundation’s in Europe, has withdrawn its five year commitment to the Dublin based Centre for Public Inquiry. The withdrawal of the ‚€4 million funding was precipitated by allegations made by the Irish minister for justice who has accused the centre’s director of being part of an IRA plot involving Columbian rebels.
The Centre for Public Inquiry was established by American philanthropist Chuck Feeney’s foundation earlier this year to ‘promote the highest standards of integrity, ethics and accountability across Irish public and business life.’ It is understood that Irish justice minister Michael McDowell, who made his statement about the centre’s director Frank Connolly under Dail privilege, met representatives of Atlantic Philanthropies several months ago to express his concerns about Mr Connolly.
Mr Connolly has denied all the allegations and challenged the Minister to produce evidence for his claims. He claims that he is being attacked because some people in pollitical life are hostile to the centre’s role.
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