Paul Kiely is a man who got around. He was a very busy bee in the charity and voluntary sector. Chief executive of this company; secretary of another; and board member of a third — all of which were interlinked. A man like that could do with a rest after his strenuous efforts, and what better way to kick back than with an obscene pension.

Central Remedial Clinic officials will not be allowed to “walk off into the sunset” and will be forced to face the consequences of the top-ups scandal engulfing the group.

ON Dec 7, 2007, Jim Nugent told the Mahon Tribunal, under oath, that he had been involved in a whip-around for Bertie Ahern.

The Central Remedial Clinic has failed to clarify if the senior officials who resigned from the scandal-hit group last night received lavish lump sum retirement packages secretly funded by charitable donations.

The recently retired boss of the Central Remedial Clinic, Brian Conlon, will face a grilling over salary top-ups at the agency when he appears before the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee next month.

The Central Remedial Clinic is paying €669,000 a year into a “phantom” Mater Hospital pension fund officials believe should have ended a decade ago.

A lump sum amounting to €200,000 was paid out of charitable donations to the former chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic who retired in June.

The CRC lied to the HSE by claiming its chief executive’s salary was in compliance with pay scales in July when in reality it included €40,000-worth of charity-funded top-ups.

Anyone tuning into yesterday’s meeting of the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee would be forgiven for wondering if we have learnt anything from all that has happened in recent years.

Scandal-struck Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) chiefs said they face being sued if they enforce salary cuts on bosses getting top-ups from public donations.

Director and acting chief executive of the Central Remedial Clinic, Jim Nugent, has rejected calls for his resignation in light of controversy surrounging top-up payments to nine senior staff members at the disability agency.

Representatives from the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) will today take questions from TDs on private salary top-ups.

Fresh enquiries are under way into suspected top-up payments at another four state-funded bodies as the investigation into bonuses for senior managers at voluntary hospitals and agencies is set to widen.

Three quarters of the €27.856m donated to the charity wing of the Central Remedial Clinic between 1998 and 2011 was not sent on to the facility.

Ray Smith recently returned to the city where he became a Neptune legend all of 25 years ago. Though he’d started his career in the US and ended it in Spain, fate sent him to a place in between where he had previously never heard of — but it’s a place he won’t forget in a hurry.

Bertie Ahern lied when accounting for more than £215,000 of money lodged to bank accounts connected to him, the tribunal believes.

The country's biggest corruption inquiry has found former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern did not truthfully account for bank lodgements and savings totalling around IR£275,000.

The Mahon tribunal has found former taoiseach Bertie Ahern did not truthfully account for bank lodgements and savings totalling around IR£275,000.

NOT many radio presenters would get away with disturbing the sleep of one of the world’s best known rock stars but Bono was in forgiving form as Ryan Tubridy stepped into Gerry Ryan’s shoes for the first time yesterday.

2FM has announced one of the biggest ever shake-ups to its schedule in a bid to boost flagging listenership figures with a range of new shows hosted by presenters including Hector Ó hEochagáin, Ryan Tubridy and Colm Hayes.

DJ Colm Hayes and television presenter Lucy Kennedy are set to present a morning show together on RTÉ 2fm for the coming month.

RTÉ has today announced its plans to replace 'The Gerry Ryan Show' on 2fm following the death of the presenter this day last week.

PUBLICAN Charlie Chawke told the Mahon Tribunal yesterday he had no difficulty giving IR£2,500 in cash — his share of a £22,500 whip- round among friends in late 1993 — to help Bertie Ahern with his marital separation legal fees.

After it was disclosed that Ben Dunne had paid for renovations to Michael Lowry’s house, Bertie said the “first duty of any minister is to the public whom he has been appointed to serve.

DCU Mercy 79 UL Aughinish 65

DCU Mercy are the 2007 Women's SuperLeague Champions after a stunning display against UL Aughinish at the UL Arena in Limerick this afternoon.

WITH a new air of excitement at the top of the conference tables, teams will be hoping to improve their positions this weekend in time for the Nivea for Men SuperLeague play-offs at the UL Arena on March 24 and 25.

BEFORE the semi-finals two weeks ago, few would have predicted Team Montenotte Hotel from Glanmire would challenge UL Aughinish for the national cup title.

REIGNING champions UCC Demons and challengers Abrakebabra Tigers sharpened the competitive edge in advance of next Sunday’s National Cup final with solid NIVEA for MEN SuperLeague victories over the weekend.

DEFENDING champions, UL Aughinish, are back in the final of the women’s cup after a comprehensive 84-62 victory over Bausch & Lomb Wildcats.

TONY HEHIR will find himself in an unusual situation in tomorrow’s National Cup semi-final between UL Aughinish and Bausch & Lomb Wildcats at the National basketball arena.

Neptune 75 Gleneagle Lakers 78

Brendan Mooney

ON A weekend when three of the four cup semi-finalists tasted defeat a week before Cup final weekend, Limerick Lions got their challenge for the NIVEA SuperLeague play-off spot back on track with a sensational 107-98 home victory over Mardyke UCC Demons.

COACH Jim Nugent says Davenno Hines will be a key player as Neptune battle for a place in the play-off stages of the NIVEA for Men SuperLeague.

NEPTUNE and Shamrock Rovers Hoops have each won basketball’s most coveted prize - the National Cup - four times but tomorrow night they will be battling to stay in this year’s competition at Neptune Stadium.

ABRAKEBABRA Tigers are top of the pile in basketball’s Southern Conference — but watch out for Limerick Lions, who are on a high after their seven-point weekend victory over Mardyke UCC Demons in Cork.

IT’S the game basketball has been talking about for weeks - the clash of the two best sides in the country as unbeaten DART Killester make the trip to Tralee to meet the Abrakebabra Tigers in the Nivea for Men SuperLeague tomorrow night.

WHEN Mardyke UCC Demons and Neptune battled their way through to the final of the National Cup at the end of last season everyone was regretting the fact that it was not to be played in Cork - for many the spiritual home of basketball.

NEPTUNE coach Jim Nugent has a tough call this weekend when they travel to Belfast to play MDS Star in the Nivea for Men SuperLeague.

Mardyke UCC Demons 72 Neptune 74

COACHES Pat Price and Jim Nugent insist they are putting points before passion when Mardyke UCC Demons and Neptune clash in tonight’s Cork derby SuperLeague game at The Mardyke Arena (8.15pm).

NEPTUNE did not take long to produce the performance that coach Jim Nugent promised at the start of the new SuperLeague season when they overwhelmed Mark Scannell’s Gleneagle Lakers in Killarney on Wednesday night.