Ireland one of the most corrupt nations in the western world

[David Cochrane]

IRELAND remains one of the most corrupt nations in the western world, a major international survey revealed yesterday, writes Shaun Connolly in this morning's Irish Examiner.

Bribery is perceived to be far more rampant in this country’s public sector than in similar countries such as Britain. A corruption index gave Ireland an honesty rating of 7.4 out of a possible 10, well below the leaders Iceland, Finland and New Zealand which each received a score of 9.6.

The Republic’s ranking was the same as last year, but allowed it to rise one place to 18th in the honesty league, seven places below Britain, which scored 8.6.

[antagoniser]

Thats surprising! :wink:

[Twin Towers]

Heres the fuller picture on those stats:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/gov_c ... corruption

Iceland being perceived 97% clean - thats squeaky clean.

[Munion]

Yeah really shocking. How many donations to a public servant's child's "football team" have I been asked to make this year already......

One of the great crutches of this country is the corruption in the civil & public services.

[Cael]

What more can you say about a country were lucky young couples are the ones who can sell themselves into bondage for forty years so that they can have a match box to bring up their children in (if they can afford to have any children), while the unlucky ones cant even do that much. All the while a small group of landowners, builders and speculators swim in more cash than they can imagine what to do with. Fianna Fáil presided over this obsenity while the stuffed brown envelopes kept flowing.

[untouchable]

What more can you say about a country were lucky young couples are the ones who can sell themselves into bondage for forty years so that they can have a match box to bring up their children in (if they can afford to have any children), while the unlucky ones cant even do that much. All the while a small group of landowners, builders and speculators swim in more cash than they can imagine what to do with. Fianna Fáil presided over this obsenity while the stuffed brown envelopes kept flowing.

Thats worth an encore.

[Biffo]

What more can you say about a country were lucky young couples are the ones who can sell themselves into bondage for forty years so that they can have a match box to bring up their children in (if they can afford to have any children), while the unlucky ones cant even do that much. All the while a small group of landowners, builders and speculators swim in more cash than they can imagine what to do with. Fianna Fáil presided over this obsenity while the stuffed brown envelopes kept flowing.

Thats worth an encore.

For one thing its well written, maybe you should put it up on your website as an example of how things should be done.

[Tess]

[color=indigo]More corrupt than Italy :wink:

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[Tess]

[color=indigo]Before anyone shouts at me - I failed to read the link above, of course Ireland isn't more corrupt than Italy

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[thenardier]

Well, next year we can bribe them to move us further up the list.