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This country, like many others, has sometimes had an unfortunate relationship with all-powerful corporations, especially those not always perceived as corporate entities.

In too many instances citizens have been ill-served and sometimes cast aside as great forces tighten their grip on power and profit.

Immediately after independence, the Catholic Church assumed corporate power in a society trying to shake off the anti-democratic culture of colonisation. In subsequent decades Fianna Fáil’s popularity allowed that party behave more like a corporation than an accountable participant in a democracy. In the last two decades, the banks assumed new, unfettered power that elected governments could not curb — even if they wanted to.