The chair of the Charities Regulatory Authority (CRA) sent an email to a director stating that her position on both the authority and an organisation it was investigating was “wholly unacceptable”. Gerry Kearney, the chair of the CRA, wrote to Lorraine Lally, a member of the authority and a trustee of Scouting Ireland, outlining how it had “repeatedly raised” concerns with her about her dual role with the CRA and Scouting Ireland from June 2023 on.  His email, released under Freedom of Information (FOI) legislation, is dated January 14, 2025, and marked “Urgent / Confidential”. It outlines the CRA’s repeated…

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