Talk:Corruption in the Republic of Ireland

Irish Bank Guarantee
When will there be discussion of the deeply corrupt and unconstitutional bank bailout of 2008-2010? It's about time this injustice was addressed properly. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.110.24 (talk) 02:38, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse scandal in Ireland
I am planning to expand this page a lot and I am wondering should this be dealt with in this article? I already have politicial and financial corruption but would this count as Corruption? ShaneMc2010 20:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * If it dealt strictly with the issue of covering up of abuse, I don't see why not. RashersTierney (talk) 20:29, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thats grand so! Most of the work will be done in my sandbox so it will be a while before I apply them here. ShaneMc2010 20:40, 29 August 2012 (UTC)

Corruption 1900-1940
'Up until 1920 there was very little corruption in Ireland, this was due to the fact that the politicians of the day were far too busy attempting to get Independence from Britain'

Ridiculous. This is presuming all politicians were Republicans AND has no references to any source on the subject --Bigmeuprudeboy (talk) 08:37, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Find a major corruption case before this time and prove it wrong so. ShaneMc2010 15:21, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * I'd say the onus is on you proving it right 'so' first wouldn't you? --Bigmeuprudeboy (talk) 09:23, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Ridiculous is an understatement.
 * Were Unionist politicians, who obviously were not "far too busy attempting to get independence", free of corruption by some sort of morphic resonance with Republicans?
 * And how does the quoted sentence explain the claimed absence of corruption before the establishment of Sinn Fein?
 * Does the author of this sentence believe that the Irish Parliamentary Party up to 1918 (who incidentally were not republicans and were seeking home rule as distinct from independence) were 'busier' than politicians in either part of Ireland since 1920? I would have thought most of them could be characterised, like English and Scottish (and indeed Irish Unionist) MPs of their time, as pretty leisurely by modern standards! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.14.9 (talk) 23:28, 4 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Well I wrote what makes the most sense, if you feel so strongly about it then change it to your own supposed divine interpretation and stop moaning on the talk page about the author. In the time it took you to write that out, you could have changed the page yourself. The page isn't my responsibility at all, its the communities so I don't see why you addressed 'the author of this sentence' personally. ShaneMc2010 15:29, 5 October 2012 (UTC)

Quite right. Done. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.223.14.9 (talk) 16:50, 7 October 2012 (UTC)


 * Nationalist and unionist politicans were both infamous for their old boys' networks, which often worked through the AOH and OO. There was a lot of corruption before independence, certainly compared with the rest of the UK. Gob Lofa (talk) 19:34, 7 December 2014 (UTC)

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