Ireland’s record in combating foreign corruption ‘dire’

Ireland still has one of the worst records in the world for combating cross-border corruption — with little or no effort being made to prosecute Irish businesses for bribing officials abroad.

According to the OECD, Ireland languishes among the bottom of an international league of countries for enforcing its anti-bribery convention.

In 2003, the Government pledged to tackle bribery by Irish people and companies overseas to win contracts, licences and dodge taxes, as part of the OECD anti-bribery convention.