A list of Scandals in Ireland at present - please contribute!

[Watcher1]

goodness....it gets longer very quickly (fnarrr, fnarrr)

OK, try to copy and paste and add to the list?


JOD and his Expenses
The price of a pint
Nama
Rody Molloy's pay-off compared to treatment by State of victims of sexual abuse.
Anglo
INBS
DDDA
FF
The fact Mary Coughlan and Willie O Dea have a job, let alone a high payed public money funded job.
Dept of finance seemingly exempt from criticism even though they were involved in or should have known about pretty much all of the scandals that will be on this list as they have oversight or were directly involved.
why on earth have they (upper echelon) not been held up for public ridicule and sacked?

Banking scandals: the Anglo nationwide loans and deposits.

Bonuses to failed and corrupt bankers.

Bonuses to failed and corrupt Public Servants such as Rody Molloy and the financial regulator.
The fact that seemingly no effort was made to bring these people to punishment...

The intertwined relationships between the people who are supposedly directing the changes to our failed govt are those most responsible for the situation: the department of finance.

The scandal that it took so long for the McCarthy-Snip report and there was no depth to its analysis beyond chop back front line services in the vast majority of cases. there is no analysis of improvement and little locating of waste in the administrative side in particular the outrageous level of high ranking highly paid C.S. such as those in the Oh WOW Dept of Finance.


Martin Cullens abuse of government jet
Mary Harney's abuse of the government jet (a few years back but dont know how recent you want the list to be)
Bertie Ahern, plain and simply. The man and his whole life is a scandal.
Roddy Molloy and FAS expenses
Patrick Neary playing cosy with the people he was supposed to regulate
Patrick Neary and his secret payoff
Sean Fitzpatricks hidden loans
Proping up of Anglo balance sheet
The Anglo golden circle
ODCE foor dragging on the Anglo case
No prosecutions brought in the banking scandals
Most government expenses
Paying off NTR 600M for electronic tolling (actually the whole giving away of the M50bridge asset to NTR, contract signed by, among others, Ray Burke and P Flynn)
Cowens misleadfing/lies to the dail re Molloy
PPARS
Port Tunnell over runs
Luas overruns
Luas construction allowed to take so long it put many put many people out of business on Harcourt Street
Still no link between the green and red Luas lines
The near death of a whole train load of people north of Malahide because the government would not fund the railway safety group adequately to conduct proper inspections
The underfunding of the health service to such an extent that countless peopple suffer and die as a result of the negligence
School children having to be tought in rat infested and wholey inadequate facilities. If schools were private concerns the health and safety authority would have closed many of them down. But the governmenbt skews everything in their favour.

Would it not be better and possible to use the edit facility in your opening post? That way, new readers can see wqhat has been suggested which should avoid duplication and possibly aid in remembering others.

[Pauli]

The fact Mary Coughlan and Willie O Dea have a job, let alone a high payed public money funded job.

throw the Bull, Cullen and O'Cuiv on to that pile of detritus while you are at it

[Iarmhi Gael]

Fingleton and the inaction by the government in tackling Irish Nationwide
The failure of RTE to ask questions on FF
The Anglo enquiry - The slowness in getting action
Thornton Hall / E-Voting

[odie1kanobe]

Having a leader of the opposition who struggles getting himself out of a paper bag.

[Mitsui]

I think this a terrific idea. It will be great to have one single place where one can go and remind oneself of all the filth that's going on, particularly since they're coming so hot and heavy and are likely to go on for some time.

[Keith-M]

The fact that we have the most unpopular government in the history of the state and yet less than one in three of the electorate think that the leader of the opposition is capable of doing his present job, let alone leading the country.

[Penates]

Ray Burke and the Bailey Brothers
Anglo Irish Bank propping up the Bailey Brothers British business

[nbgb]

The fact that we have the most unpopular governmeent in the history of the state and yet less than one in three of the electorate think that the leader of the opposition is capable of doing his present job, let alone leading the country.

sad but true - ain't no-one around to save us from ourselves at the moment imo

[TimBuckII]

Thornton Hall

[Toland]

Neilstown/Quarryvale
Carrickmines