Latest: Pieta House is to take over Console service including 24 hour helpline.

The future of the suicide and bereavement charity Console will be discussed today.

The likely liquidation of scandal-hit suicide bereavement organisation Console and transfer of its services were being discussed by the board late last night.

The High Court has continued orders freezing the assets of the Console charity for a further week.

Senior charity bosses will be forced to pay back lucrative salary top-ups as part of a government crackdown.

The Department of Health has begun a full external review of all so-called 'Section 38' agencies in the wake of issues at Console.

Plans to allow crisis-hit suicide-prevention charity Console to be taken over by a rival group are being delayed due to concerns the group’s counsellors will not be paid money still owed to them by former chief executive Paul Kelly, writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith, Political Reporter.

Console’s legal action against the charity’s founder Paul Kelly, his wife Patricia and their son Tim is due back before the High Court this morning.

The Social Democrats are proposing tougher regulations for the charity sector, including plans for a new anti-corruption agency.

Plans to allow crisis-hit suicide-prevention charity Console to be taken over by a rival group are being delayed due to concerns the group’s counsellors will not be paid money still owed to them by former chief executive Paul Kelly.

We ignore the fact that most of the services are... state services with a different sign on the door, writes Terry Prone

The Department of Health has come under pressure after it emerged the former CEO of Console was brought in for questioning five years ago regarding his stint posing as a fake doctor in the early 1980s.

Revenue officials are to begin an emergency examination of suicide prevention charity Console’s accounts within days, the Irish Examiner has learned.

A member of the charities regulator has said the controversy around Console and other charities would not have happened if the sector was properly regulated.

There are a staggering 252 charities working in the area of suicide prevention in this country, writes Claire O’Sullivan. 

Leading depression charities are expected to take over Console’s services this weekend, despite legal technicalities meaning the plan could not be signed off on last night.

The British branch of the suicide prevention charity is under scrutiny amid reports the Irish organisation is to shut down.

It is expected the charity is to be wound down after audit revealed financial irregularities.

Crisis-hit suicide charity Console will be wound up within days after it was decided it cannot continue to operate due to the financial scandal engulfing the organisation.

Health Minister Simon Harris, senior HSE officials, and Console’s interim CEO David Hall are contacting a series of high-profile suicide prevention and depression charities in a bid to convince them to take on Console’s frontline services.

IN the circumstances, and without prejudging any subsequent events, the decision to close the suicide prevention charity Console seems to be the right one. 

A statement has been released by the HSE with relation to ongoing talks being held with relation to the continuation of Console services.

Console’s interim chief executive David Hall has called an emergency meeting with the group’s staff today to tell them services may be wound up immediately, due to alleged Government failure to solve the charity’s financial crisis.

The HSE is considering whether mental health organisations could take on the Console service and staff as the crisis-hit group prepares to hold an emergency meeting with its employees today.

Former health ministers James Reilly and Leo Varadkar may face a public grilling before the end of this month over how much was known about the Console financial crisis while they were in office.

The interim CEO of Console said he has determined to make sure the services offered by the embattled charity survive.

Revenue officials are to begin an emergency examination of suicide prevention charity Console’s accounts within days, the Irish Examiner has learned.

Latest: More revelations relating to what was described as “elaborate spending” on credit cards linked to Console were outlined in court today.

The HSE gave crisis-hit charity Console more than €321,000 in funding this year, despite its own audit team and Government Ministers being aware of serious financial irregularities at the charity since summer 2015.

The public must not allow the financial crisis at suicide prevention charity Console to "tar all Irish charities with the one brush", Dublin's new lord mayor has warned writes Fiachra Ó Cionnaith.

There has been a slight delay in proceedings at the High Court where the finances of suicide charity Console are under the spotlight again.

Officials have been poring over files and documents placed in a secret storage unit by the former Console chief executive Paul Kelly after a court order allowed David Hall, interim CEO at the charity, to break the lock and seize them.

The gardaí and revenue commissioners need to fully investigate the ongoing scandal at suicide prevention charity Console, Health Minister Simon Harris has said.

First Console and now St John of God. How are these charity scandals emerging when there is supposed to be a Charities Regulator in place now?

The €1.64m paid by a leading special needs charity to 14 senior managers, without the knowledge of the HSE, were outstanding pension liabilities and other contractual obligations.

The former minister for mental health, Kathleen Lynch, was aware that embattled charity Console was being audited by the HSE but said her main concern was that its counselling was not in question.

The gardai and revenue commissioners need to become directly involved in resolving the ongoing scandal at suicide prevention charity Console, Health Minister Simon Harris has warned.

Console’s interim CEO David Hall has been given permission to gain access to a storage unit that was paid for under the name of the charity’s founder Paul Kelly.

Paul Kelly’s sister Joan McKenna has asked for more time to reply to allegations made by Console – the suicide charity set up by her brother.

The Health Minister is meeting with the HSE today to discuss reports of financial irregularities at Console.

The Dáil’s public accounts watchdog has said it will investigate the controversy surrounding Console as well as top-up payments made at the Saint John of God Order.

The People of the Year committee has written to embattled former Console head, Paul Kelly demanding he return his award as calls grow for the Government to urgently grant the charity regulator investigative powers.