The Paul Kiely-trained Inchiquin High is developing into a competent point-to-point performer and the seven-year-old supplemented last month’s Killeagh success by landing a cracking mares’ winners of two at yesterday’s well-attended Knockanard fixture, run under the auspices of the Avondhu Foxhounds.

McNulty, the first driver to win both National and Irish Tarmac titles in the same season, will make a competitive return to rallying on next month’s Corrib Oil Galway International Rally.

Tomorrow night’s Carbery Navigation Trial in Leap in West Cork is the second round of the Munster Navigation Trial Championship. Local crews will be expected to dominate the 115km event although Limerick’s Alan Shinnors and George Shinnors (Subaru), who won last week’s Cork Startrek Navigation Trial, should again be to the forefront.

Farloe Blitz continued his serene progress through the Greyhound & Pet World and Odds On Dog Food Supersprint with a wide-margin victory in the first semi-final on Saturday night at Curraheen Park.

Ex-Central Remedial Clinic boss Paul Kiely has again been urged to give back his controversial €740,000 severance package pay-out, after the charity suffered a loss of almost exactly the same amount last year.

The ex-chairman of the crisis-hit Central Remedial Clinic has "apologised" for its charity top-ups scandal — but has insisted he and his colleagues have a "clear conscience" as they did nothing wrong.

It is been confirmed that the board of the Central Remedial Clinic was ordered to resign last December by the Health Service Executive or face cuts in funding.

Representatives from the Central Remedial Clinic, its former board and the Health Service Executive, will come before The Public Accounts Committee this morning.

Former members of the board of the Central Remedial Clinic, who were forced out over the charity top-ups scandal, have refused to turn up for a high-profile meeting on the issue.

The Central Remedial Clinic has said it will deal with all outstanding issues raised in the report of its interim administrator — including chasing the overpayment made to a former chief executive.

The Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee says the former chief executive of the CRC Paul Kiely should return part of his retirement package.

A report into the Central Remedial Clinic has revealed a determination to keep information from the HSE and the public on its funding streams and its chief executive’s pay packet.

The Central Remedial Clinic was far more concerned with saving face than it was with saving money.

A report by the interim administrator into the Central Remedial Clinic has criticised the board of the organisation for rushing into a pay-off deal for retiring Chief Executive Paul Kiely.

The Central Remedial Clinic is to cut its CEO’s salary by two thirds as part of sweeping changes.

Ex-Central Remedial Clinic chief executive Paul Kiely is set to be given another public grilling over his shocking €742,025 retirement package from the charity.

IT’S GETTING so it’s difficult to keep up. Since Christmas, we’ve had to work hard to keep abreast of all the unfolding scandals, while simultaneously maintaining our healthy sense of national moral indignation.

Oireachtas committees have shown how very feeble our parliament’s powers of investigation are. They have also shown how very independent some arms of State — and some agencies at an arm’s length from direct State control — perceive themselves to be.

Some of the excess and greed shown by charity chiefs inevitably provoked public outrage.

A dossier of evidence relating to pay, pension, and other issues at the Central Remedial Clinic is being prepared by the HSE’s interim administrator and will be presented to the Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee by the end of March.

Furious CRC families have insisted axed chief executive Paul Kiely must hand back all charity money diverted to pay his lucrative pension packet.

The Dáil Public Accounts Committee chairman, John McGuinness, will today contact the interim administrator at the scandal-hit Central Remedial Clinic, as he seeks all files relevant to the €740,000 pension payoff for its former CEO.

The decision to award former Central Remedial Clinic chief Paul Kiely a €742,025 pension payoff was based on legal expertise from within the CRC board, with no evidence outside advice was taken.

Finance Minister Michael Noonan has added his voice to those calling for the former chief executive of Central Remedial Clinic (CRC) to pay back his €742,000 pension pay-off.

The HSE is to carry out a trawl of bank statements at the Central Remedial Clinic as part of its efforts to pursue “to the bitter end” issues at the disability service.

We’ve been here before, haven’t we? We have done the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. We have phoned Liveline in our masses, watched politicians kick the problems around like footballs and read all the newspaper column inches dedicated to our rage.

Health Minister James Reilly has pledged the Government will use all available options to seek the return of former CRC chief Paul Kiely’s €740,000 secret payoff, including the gardaí, corporate enforcement and the civil courts.

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The choreography of an Irish scandal is well established. The draw-the-sting, smoke-and-daggers shuffle-and-dodge is predictable and all too well rehearsed. The lineage is pretty constant and unfortunately equally predictable.

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.

The Justice Minister Alan Shatter confirmed this evening that a new Charities Regulator will be appionted by Easter.

The Director General of the HSE Tony O'Brien has said the agency will mull over legal action against the former CRC chief executive Paul Kiely.

Half of charities fear public trust in their work has been permanently damaged by the top-ups and pay-offs scandal at the Central Remedial Clinic (CRC).

Sinn Féin's Mary Lou McDonald has accused former CRC boss Brian Conlon of attempting to stonewall the Public Accounts Committee.

The Garda fraud squad could be called in to investigate breaches of company law at the Central Remedial Clinic following fresh revelations about payments to its former chief executive using charity funds.

“I don’t think I have ever been at a meeting where the emotions are such that we are actually angered and saddened. What we are hearing is how a noble concept, the Friends and Supporters group was turned into the Directors and Friends group.”

Irish people are expected to be far more cautious in donating to charity this year, in the wake of the salary top-ups scandal in the charity sector.

It is obvious that a great many people in this country do not feel constrained by the idea of moral, honest or even decent behaviour.

The HSE says it may be necessary to call the Gardaí to discuss financial arrangements at the Central Remedial Clinic.

The HSE claims it is looking into the scale of the pension arrangements of the former Chief Executive of the Central Remedial Clinic Paul Kiely.

The Dáil’s Public Accounts Committee is to examine whether charity donations to the Central Remedial Clinic were dipped into to a greater extent than previously thought to top up the pension of the former chief executive, Paul Kiely.