Lawyer: Shane Ross had adverse state of mind to Angela Kerins

TD Shane Ross wrote an article after former Rehab CEO Angela Kerins and other Rehab officials appeared at the Dáil Public Accounts Committee (PAC) asserting that, “for sheer neck, no-one has come within a whisper of Angela Kerins and her charity gang”, the High Court has heard.

John Rogers, counsel for Ms Kerins, said Mr Ross was then a member of the PAC and the tone of his March 2014 article in the Sunday Independent “plainly indicates” a state of mind adverse to Ms Kerins, Rehab, and others mentioned in it, including another ex-Rehab CEO, Frank Flannery.

Mr Rogers was making final arguments at the conclusion of a hearing before a three-judge High Court concerning whether the PAC had jurisdiction to conduct two hearings on February 27 and April 2014 concerning public payments to Rehab as it had.