A new Legend of Zelda game breaths new life into the series, writes Ronan Jennings

The Public Accounts Committee has been told some former staff at the charity Console may not be paid their arrears wages.

Former workers for scandal-hit suicide prevention charity Console are being forced to borrow money to pay family bills as the State has failed to pay them three months wages owed to them by the group.

THE best games build on what came before. They take the strongest parts of their competitors and break them down to form something even better. Dragon Quest Builders takes this to a whole new level, building on the past in more ways than one.

The head of the charities regulator says he is concerned by the number of organisations providing services that are not compliant with regulations.

NOBODY likes a missed opportunity. Sometimes a game belongs to a certain time — if you don’t play it upon release, the moment is lost, writes Ronan Jennings. 

Console founder Paul Kelly and his wife Patricia will today be given an opportunity to prove that funds in their savings account belongs to them.

The freezing order on the current account of former Console CEO Paul Kelly has been lifted, but the High Court denied Paul Kelly and his wife Patricia access to their savings account.

A High Court judge said today that he wants to hear if the former CEO of Console has been co-operating with the provisional liquidator of the charity, before considering granting him living expenses.

The Former Interim CEO of Console has said that it is important that the crucial services run by the charity continue.

Disgraced former chief executive of suicide prevention charity Console Paul Kelly threatened to sue the HSE if any details about the financial scandal emerged just 24 hours before RTÉ’s high-profile exposé on the organisation.

HSE chief Tony O’Brien has insisted his organisation is “not to blame” for failing to uncover the Console scandal sooner, despite a powerful Dáil group accusing officials of not acting on a series of “alerts” about the charity over the past decade.

Update 2pm: The director general of the HSE has revealed it has a tax clearance cert for the charity Console.

The head of the HSE has told TDs his agency was powerless to control or regulate fundraising at the suicide charity Console.

The results of a HSE audit into suicide charity Console are expected to be published later this morning.

Charities will be required to report their annual activities and finances to the Charities Regulator under the body's latest Strategic Statement.

Suicide charity Pieta House is taking over services previously operated by Console in a deal finalised yesterday to ensure minimum disruption to clients.

Pieta House is to take over the services provided by Console after reaching an agreement with the HSE.

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.

New rules are coming into effect from next week to impose greater control on charities, as the board of Console meets to discuss outstanding payments to its staff.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Suicide prevention charity Console is expected to be wound up in the coming days.

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.

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.