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Simon Harris ‘fired board by press release’, SFI chair allegedly complained

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Simon Harris ‘fired board by press release’, SFI chair allegedly complained

Issue was taken with plans that Philip Nolan says ultimately cost him director general role at state body

Philip Nolan was dismissed by the SFI board. Photo: Collins

The chairman of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) allegedly complained repeatedly that his board was “fired by press release” issued by Simon Harris when he was Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science last year.

Details of the board’s alleged opposition to Taoiseach Mr ­Harris’s plans are contained in legal filings in a case taken by former SFI director general Professor Philip ­Nolan to block SFI — a state body that administers grants of €230m a year — from firing him.

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