The wrong target

Some of the excess and greed shown by charity chiefs inevitably provoked public outrage.

It was more than galling for those people, some of them surviving in greatly reduced circumstances, who generously supported the Central Remedial Clinic, to discover that a former chief executive, Paul Kiely, retired on a package worth a very enviable €750,000.

That he feels no compunction to return some of that money just adds to the sense of outrage felt right across the country.