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4 unusual facts about 2008 FÁS expenditure controversy


2008 FÁS expenditure controversy

Nearly €30,000 was spent by FÁS on a film crew to capture the 2006 visit of US astronaut, Commander Eileen Collins, whom the agency invited to Ireland to promote a science project.

Questions have also been raised about Molloy's decision to move a jobs fair from the smaller RDS venue to the larger Croke Park stadium in Dublin.

He described the catering facilities at the RDS as "unacceptable" in standard and price, before suggesting that children might be killed whilst crossing the road to obtain nutritional maintenance elsewhere and insisting that incoming Gaelic Athletic Association president Christy Cooney, an assistant director with FAS, was not involved in the move.

These reasons, he suggested, were "to do with the kind of activities that were involved there", including a dinner involving the President of Ireland Mary McAleese and her husband.



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