We pay a high price for less than scrupulous attitude to money

THE report into the banking inquiry and the salary of the former general secretary of the IFA do not seem to be inextricably linked, writes Alison O’Connor.

Yet in terms of how we operate, here in what the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, likes to call ‘the best little country in the world in which to do business’, they would seem joined at the hip.

While we suffered during the recession, and many people continue to suffer, we learnt little. With every month that passes, there is the sense of our current little boom getting boomier, and the business of our public affairs continuing just as it always did.