Fergus Finlay: It is vital to have full transparency to save Ireland’s reputation

Reputation matters enormously to charities and to any organisation that depends on the trust of people who support them, work for them or depend on them.

REPUTATION matters. It matters to individuals, to companies, perhaps above all to countries. It matters enormously to charities and to any organisation that depends on the trust of people who support them, work for them or depend on them.

There were a number of stories this past weekend that undermined reputation. Each of them serious in its own way — take them together and they can add up pretty quickly to a stain on Ireland’s reputation. And I’m not talking (in this context, anyway) of the political resurrection of Bertie Ahern — that’s a subject that would warrant a page or two all on its own.