News blackout over lavish credit union conference

THE board of the Irish League of Credit Unions (ILCU) has imposed a news blackout on details of which of its members will attend a world credit union conference in Barcelona next week.

Last Thursday, the Irish Examiner submitted a series of question to ILCU asking for the names of the board members who would represent the credit union movement at a four-day conference in the Spanish capital beginning on July 26.

Initially, a member of ILCU’s marketing services department said the questions would be answered, but this decision was subsequently reversed. An external PR company sent a press release to the Irish Examiner by way of reply. It did not answer any of the questions other than to confirm ILCU would be sending a delegation from its board to the conference, “as it has in previous years”.