The woman who controlled the finances of a charity set up to support women with hepatitis C ultimately raised the suspicions of her peers when she failed to provide satisfactory explanations around missing cheque stubs and delays in obtaining copy cheques from the bank.

A support group for women given contaminated blood products by the State has been wound up with debts in excess of €107,000.

A new Hep C support group has formed to replace the organisation whose funding was pulled because of concerns about “inappropriate and extravagant” use of public money.

THE woman who formed an organisation to represent women infected with hepatitis C through the anti-D blood product, has been appointed to the Board of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service.

A GROUP representing women angry at the delay in informing them they had contracted Hepatitis C from contaminated blood products has criticised government plans to streamline the tribunal process.