Judge urges businesses to bring back ethics

The country’s most senior judge has urged businesses to put ethics back in their boardrooms as the courts start seeing the fallout from the economic collapse.

Chief Justice Susan Denham said the courts did not work in a vacuum but that their work reflected what was going on in society, the State, and the economy. She said the impact of recent events was now evident in the courts.

“The trail of devastation winds its way into our courts daily. Ireland’s judiciary hear at first hand the consequences of the boom and the bust every day in our courts,” she said.