Timely signal that crime doesn’t pay

THE cancer of corruption and low standards in high places, which for far too long have ravaged politics and business, reached an important turning point yesterday with the jailing of former assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond.

In a watershed verdict, the 79-year-old former public official has been jailed for one year for corruption in the 1980s.

Were it not for his age, Judge Michael White of the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court would have put him behind bars for seven years under existing legislation.