IRELAND’S BOOMING ECONOMY HAS GENERATED COMMERCIAL CRIME IN ITS WAKE
July 1st, 2007
BY BILL CORCORAN, in Dublin THE REPUBLIC of Ireland's economic growth over the past 15 years has been hailed as one of the success stories of the western world economies; however, in tandem with its economic growth commercial crime has also surfaced at an alarming rate. Bill Corcoran reports from Dublin. TRANSPARENCY International's (TI) 2006 International Corruption's Perception Index (CPI) lists Ireland as being perceived as the 18th least corrupt country of 163 assessed for the non governmental organisation's annual survey. While this paints the country's ...
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