Donations of Irish Water refunds to homeless charities has reached more than €850,000 as almost all households have received cheques. The Refund Project was set up on behalf of the Simon Community, the Peter McVerry Trust and Focus Ireland. The Refund Project said most of the donations have been happening through its online platform, refundproject.ie. Renewed appeals were made by Kieran Mulvey, chairman of the Refund Project oversight group, over the Christmas period. Response ‘considerable’Eamon Gallen, head of customer operations for Irish Water, said the response of customers to appeals to update their details has been “considerable”.

Source: The Irish Times January 14, 2018 21:00 UTC