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There is little evidence that Ireland 'has significantly reduced corruption' since 2012. In fact, most of the effort placed in reducing it happened in the late '90s. We're a scandal away from sliding right back down the index.
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Ireland is the 12th least corrupt country in the world. 🇮🇪🎉 Transparency International find corruption is worsening globally. Ireland, however, is among the nations that significantly reduced corruption since 2012. Something to be celebrated but never taken for granted. #CPI2025
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This article by Sam Smyth on Michael Lowry is free to read on @thecurrency today. It is sad to see this government cave in to him.
thecurrency.news/articles/18…
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Corruption risk is a ‘grave and imminent threat to national security’...
transparency.ie/news_events/… #CPI2024 #Ireland #Corruption
Good piece - worth adding that privacy laws aren't the reason we can't access information on companies that are used to launder money in Ireland. It's the misinterpretation and abuse of those same laws that are the problem. #WeakLinks #UnitedAgainstCorruption
Efforts to root out financial crimes are ‘undermined’ by privacy laws @Transparency_ie independent.ie/business/effo…
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💰🌍 Transparency International Ireland's new report Weak Links exposes the vulnerabilities enabling illicit financial flows in Ireland. 📉 Strengthening oversight is critical to curb #corruption and financial crime. 🚨 Read more: transparency.ie/news_events/… #UnitedAgainstCorruption #IllicitFinance #Transparency Thanks to: @OCCRP @anticorruption @JMulliganIndo @egan_sc @PartnerLawForum
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Thirteen years ago Micheál Martin called on Michael Lowry to resign from the Dáil after our highest from of public inquiry found his actions to be "profoundly corrupt" to a "breathtaking degree".
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Digicel tells creditors it is facing US justice department Foreign Corrupt Practices probe
irishtimes.com/business/2024… via @IrishTimes
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Next, @jkdevitt of @Transparency_ie and @uniofgalway shares his research on leading with integrity in #anticorruption practice
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Do not obey in advance. Lesson 1, first page, of my pamphlet "On Tyranny"
ALT 1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.
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'Inconceivable that Oireachtas members are not receiving gifts' - but only one TD has declared any since last election
m.independent.ie/irish-news/… via @Independent_ie @MarkLTighe @jkdevitt
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NEW: ‘€400k spent on home for use by family of friend of ex-McVerry CEO’
More revelations about the Peter McVerry Trust from @MurphyPaule:
READ: rte.ie/news/primetime/2024/0…
#rtept | @RTENews
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The normalisation of Putinists in the UK (Reform), France (Le Pen), and Germany (AfD) is one of the underreported stories of our time. Supporting Putin, and their rejection of the energy transition away from fossil fuels - which, again, supports Putin’s primary revenue stream - is the dangerous agenda they all share.
Latest poll by @WStoneInsight for @DailyMirror shows the Reform overtaking Tories
🔴Labour - 39% (-2)
🟣Reform - 20% (+2)
🔵Tories - 19 (-)
🟡Lib Dem - 12% (+1)
🟢Green - 6% (-)
From June 19-20/changes with June 13
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/r…
HMRC has failed to fine a single ‘enabler’ of offshore tax fraud in five years
theguardian.com/politics/art…
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Debunked: Fabricated quotes and made-up commentators feature in 'vote-rigging' news story jrnl.ie/6407123 via @thejournal_ie
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TI Ireland has been made aware of false quotes attributed to it on a website making allegations of vote rigging during the recent local elections. We have not been presented with any evidence of electoral fraud in relation to the local or European elections.
transparency.ie/news_events/…
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Hidden Figures: Just 8% of political donations had source publicly disclosed over four years
(via @thejournal_ie) jrnl.ie/6384158
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In the UK we’re not allowed to read the @NewYorker piece about Lucy Letby. But we can celebrate those who never stop asking questions, My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas…
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Transparency International Ireland (TI Ireland) are seeking to recruit a Programme Manager (Maternity Cover) to lead the Integrity at Work Programme (IAW).
If you want to help promote safer working environments for anyone reporting concerns about wrongdoing, we want to hear from you! Closing Date for applications: 2 June 2024 at 11.59pm. For more details see: transparency.ie/news_events/…
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Reforms to secretive limited partnership structures taking ‘too long’ - transparency body
businesspost.ie/news/reforms… via @businessposthq @DanielTMurray
