MICHAEL MC DOWELL

Monday, January 02, 2006

YANK WITHDRAWS DOLLARS


The board of the Centre for Public Inquiry is to hold an emergency meeting today or tomorrow to discuss the withdrawal of its €4 million funding by Irish-American philanthropist Chuck Feeney. Paul Cullen reports.
The decision was prompted by claims by Minister for Justice Michael McDowell that the director of the centre, former journalist Frank Connolly, travelled to Colombia on a false passport together with a convicted IRA member in 2001.

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