Inquiry centre deserves support for its good work

THE controversy concerning the Centre for Public Inquiry is cast as a tussle about the respective bona fides of Frank Connolly and Michael McDowell.

Inquiry centre deserves support for its good work

A more fundamental issue for Irish citizens is the threat to the survival of the centre itself. Whatever the Government's intention, the effect of its action is to jeopardise the centre's funding by Chuck Feeney's Atlantic Philanthropies.

In less than a year since it started work, the centre produced two factual, dispassionate reports on the Trim Castle hotel development and on the Corrib gas field. This information is available to all Irish citizens to read and evaluate as they will.

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