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Tue 10 Oct 2007Ex-client of counselling centre paid €235,000Dubliner Des Martin says he paid almost €250,000 to the Roebuck Counselling Centre in Rathgar over the course of a year after initially approaching the centre for counselling. The money was eventually refunded, but Mr Martin has said he was left in debt and suffering from depression after his dealings with the centre.Mr Martin is one of several ex-clients of the centre that The Irish Times has discovered were asked for large sums of money for counselling and other services. He first approached the centre for help in 1999 because he is a recovering alcoholic.