CEO: Console may close due to State inaction

Console’s interim chief executive David Hall has called an emergency meeting with the group’s staff today to tell them services may be wound up immediately, due to alleged Government failure to solve the charity’s financial crisis.

The meeting in Dublin, which will be attended by representatives from services across the country, was called last night after it emerged that staff are owed hundreds of thousands of euro in salaries, due to the scandal that has engulfed the organisation.

A trawl of records examined by Mr Hall in the past 48 hours has uncovered more details of the precarious finances of the charity, which is also struggling to fund vital suicide prevention and bereavement services, due to years of alleged funding misappropriation by disgraced ex-chief executive Paul Kelly.