Revenue to probe seven years of Console accounts

Revenue officials are to probe seven years of records at the accounts of suicide bereavement charity Console, the Irish Examiner has learned.

The office of the Revenue Commissioners is understood to have written to the organisation in the last 24 hours to demand the right to trawl through all financial records since 2009, amid growing concern at the scale of “irregularities” at the charity.

The probe will include a review of the charity’s financial books from 2009 to 2014 next Wednesday, and a separate audit of all records from 2012 to 2015, which will commence on Thursday, July 21.