Ulster grant investigation reveals funding irregularities

AN investigation into grants awarded to the Ulster Camogie Council should have been treated as a fraud probe, according to yesterday’s report to the Northern Ireland Assembly by the NI comptroller and auditor-general, Kieran Donnelly.

Council chairperson, Catherine O’Hara has responded to revelations of financial impropriety by stating that it was the organisation’s current executive that drew attention to possible problems and that all unused funding had been repaid.

An investigation was carried out by the NI Assembly’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure after a claim was made that documentation used by the Ulster Council to claim money from the Northern Ireland Sports Council had been falsified, and that the money claimed was significantly greater than the expenses actually accrued.