# Atlantic pulls the plug on ethics body

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/12/08/atlantic-pulls-plug-ethics-body/
- Published: 2005-12-08T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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withdrawn its five year commitment to the Dublin based Centre for Public Inquiry.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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