Revealed: confidential payouts to six Bord na gCon employees

FORMER Bord na gCon officials have cost the State body huge sums in payouts and legal costs as part of ‘confidential’ departure payments following disagreements with the board headed by Paschal Tagart.

The Irish Examiner has also learned that the Bord na gCon members who sit on the control committee - which oversees doping safeguards in the industry - have not received any minutes of their meetings for the past three years.

The control committee, chaired by Paschal Taggart, investigates doping allegations. However, it does not circulate minutes detailing its findings and penalties to its own members.