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While a visitor to this country might be taken aback at these revelations the public
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surprised never mind shocked.
What’s more they know damn well that what they are seeing is a tiny island in a
deep ocean of sleaze and that an entire mountain of corruption lies beneath the
surface.
They also know that nothing will be done about it and no one will ever be held to
account.
Indeed we would never even know about it at all if not for brave whistleblowers
such as Maurice McCabe and former banker Jonathan Sugarman.
Ordinary folk see a police force that can produce 1.5 million fake breathalyser tests,
or was it two million? And no one is charged never mind punished.
Then there was the strange case of the missing millions in the Garda College and
allegations of money laundering that seem to have disappeared from the radar.
In fact we’ve all become so accustomed to corruption that we don’t even register it
as crime, mostly because there’s no point in doing so because no one is going be
brought to book for it.
It’s probably a class thing as well, a banker who breaks a bank costing the taxpayer
billions of euro would never be referred to as a “scumbag”.
That term is reserved for the lower orders who break into shops or steals a phone.
Did I mention the missing garda phones?
Apparently there’s up to 11 mobile phones belonging to senior officers that may

hold text messages vital to the Disclosures Tribunal that have gone missing.
Think about that one.
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Which raises the question, if you can’t trust the police who can you trust?
In Ireland, no one.
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