Inland Fisheries Ireland admits to 'ongoing and uphill struggle' to win back public trust

IFI is facing a Workplace Relations Commission case brought by former chief executive Francis O’Donnell (pictured), who alleges he was blackmailed by a sitting senator in relation to his suspension in 2002 of the brother of IFI’s former chair, Fintan Gorman.

Inland Fisheries Ireland says it is in an “ongoing and uphill struggle” to win back the public trust as a result of the “aftershocks” of a series of damaging scandals.

The agency will appear before the Public Accounts Committee on Thursday for the second time in four months after the PAC raised concerns over the standard of information delivered to it at its previous hearing last December.