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Claire Simpson: Social Investment Fund debacle shows it's not what you know, it's who you know

Leading loyalist and former CEO of Charter NI Dee Stitt. Picture by Mal McCann
CLAIRE SIMPSON
"Never ask of money spent/ Where the spender thinks it went," the American poet Robert Frost wrote. In the case of the highly-criticised Social Investment Fund (SIF), no one seemed to ask[...]

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