The full council is set to vote in June on the plan to rejuvenate the square in line with its Georgian heritage, following 196 submissions to a public consultation.
The rules around conflicts of interest and corruption may be there, but if they are not enforced in the most high-profile cases, then how useful are they? asks UCD lecturer Andy Storey.
Despite Transparency International’s latest report, it is no time to be congratulating ourselves on how little corruption apparently takes place in Ireland.
