As news of the death of the disgraced former charity boss Paul Kelly sinks in, questions are bound to be asked about why it took so long for the corporate watchdog to charge him over a €500,000 fraud. Details of serious financial misconduct at Console have been in the public domain since June 2016 when Kelly stood down as ceo and the charity went into liquidation. Yet it was only in the past fortnight that the ODCE investigation into Kelly began to bear fruit with the preparation of criminal charges. Rather than face trial, Kelly took his own life at…

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