TEN YEARS ON, IRELAND’S ECONOMY HAS RECOVERED BUT FACES RISKS

“Group think”, an “intolerance of dissent and difference” as well as an “inordinately high value on relationships rather than rules” have prevented a culture of whistleblowers from taking root in Ireland, boosting cronyism and weakening regulation, economists and regulators were warned earlier this month (October). These problems are not only serious, but they worsened Ireland’s banking crisis and related property crash, stressed Colin Murphy, playwright (and screenwriter of a dramatisation of the banking collapse currently running on Irish TV) at ...


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