Corruption news service launched

Transparency International Ireland has launched the country’s first corruption news and analysis service.

The quarterly journal and newsletter (TIQ Ireland) will be delivered by email and will include a round-up of news headlines from Ireland and analysis of reforms and on the costs and causes of corruption worldwide.

Transparency International acting chief executive John Devitt said: “The aim of TIQ Ireland is to support and inform debate about corruption and ways to prevent it. We are not out to expose corruption but to instead to keep the issue of public integrity in people’s minds.”

The Irish chapter of TI was launched last December. Its board includes people from the world of business, civil society and politics, including Garret FitzGerald, Tom Arnold of Concern and economist Colm McCarthy.

The organisation plans to undertake anti-corruption research and lobby government on legal and institutional reform.