Trio did not know they were on board of Console

Three of the remaining directors of beleaguered suicide bereavement charity Console did not even know they were directors.

The detail emerged in the High Court yesterday after Mr Justice Paul Gilligan granted temporary injunctions preventing access to the bank accounts of the suicide bereavement counselling service by former chief executive Paul Kelly, his wife Patricia, and Mr Kelly’s sister Joan McKenna.

David Hall, the interim CEO appointed by the board to run the organisation, said in an affidavit that the three directors — Ursula Mulkerrins, Angela McGovern, and Gerard Tiernan — did not even know they were directors and had not attended functions, events or activities of Console. They had no hand, act or part in running the charity and were not notified of, or attended, any meetings of the board.