INVOICE IRREGULARITY SPARKS INTERNAL COUNCIL INVESTIGATION

Date Published: 03-Dec-2008

Top officials at Galway County Council were at odds with each other on how to deal with the findings of an internal investigation into “irregularities’ regarding invoices submitted by a Councillor, for works carried out during a Community Involvement Scheme in Ardrahan in South Galway in 2003.The second day of the trial of Cllr. Michael Fahy, Caherduff, Ardrahan, who denies seven charges of fraud and attempted theft from Galway County Council in 2002 and 2003, heard evidence from retired Galway County Manager, Donal O’Donoghue, that he made a decision not to refer the findings of an internal Co. Council investigation into “irregularities” of invoices submitted by Cllr. Fahy at the Council’s Gort office to the Gardai, because of the trauma an investigation might cause to Council staff and their families.