{"id":11625,"date":"2025-09-10T06:36:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11625\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T06:36:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T06:36:10","slug":"professor-philip-nolan-receives-e475000-as-part-of-settlement-after-termination-of-science-foundation-ireland-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/11625\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Philip Nolan receives \u20ac475,000 as part of settlement after termination of Science Foundation Ireland contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Philip Nolan. Photo: Collins\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/philip nolan.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Philip Nolan. Photo: Collins<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Former Science Foundation Ireland chief Philip Nolan received 475,000 as part of the settlement of his legal action about the termination of his contract with the State organisation in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The payout to Prof Nolan &#8211; who became a household name during the Covid-19 pandemic when he served a member of the high-profile National Public Health Emergency Team (Nphet) &#8211; is revealed in the financial statements of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) for 2024. The \u20ac474,000 figure is made up of a \u20ac200,000 payout plus \u20ac275,000 for his legal costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philip Nolan. Photo: Collins Former Science Foundation Ireland chief Philip Nolan received 475,000 as part of the settlement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-11625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}