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David Hall (campaigner)

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David Hall is an Irish businessman, campaigner for mortgage holders and the interim CEO of the suicide charity Console.

Hall is a businessmen who owns and runs the Lifeline ambulance service. He founded the Make a Wish Foundation Ireland in 1992, and also served as chairman of the Marie Keating foundation. In 2010 Hall founded New Beginnings along with lawyers Ross Maguire and Vincent Martin, to campaign and fight for those in mortgage arrears, he left it due to its moving to providing a service on a commercial basis rather than be an advocacy group and in 2012 David founded the Irish Mortgage Holders Organisation.

Hall studied at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth where he was elected Students Union, Vice-President (alongside Vincent Martin who was SU President) in 1990.

In 2013 he unsuccessfully took the government to court over the issuing and payment of promissory notes, which he appealed to the Supreme court.

Hall unsuccessfully ran as an Independent in the 2014 by-election in Dublin West.

After controversies over its founder and CEO Paul Kelly, the board of Console appointed Hall as its Interim CEO.

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