In 2009 , some financial irregularities were revealed anonymously on an anonymous blog by a whistleblower , Noel Wardick , who was head of the international department . The Irish Red Cross sought court orders to obtain Mr Wardick 's identity from UPC and Google , which were granted . Wardick was dismissed . Wardick had revealed that € 162,000 collected locally for the 2004 Asian tsunami had remained unspent in a bank account years after the event
Asian tsunami
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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