Disability body to be wound up as boss refuses pay cut

NATIONAL disability organisation, People with Disabilities in Ireland (PwDI), is to be wound up after failure to resolve a row over attempts to force its chief executive to take a €64,000 pay cut.

The shock decision was taken yesterday following a meeting between solicitors for the directors of the organisation and officials from the Department of Justice, which provides its annual budget.

Chief executive Michael Ringrose, who was resisting pressure to take a 40% cut in his €154,000 salary, was informed afterwards that he was being let go without further pay. Five other head office staff and about a dozen regional staff were also told their jobs were gone.