Summary: The <a href="http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/0082a1c81cbf42a880257e28005387c4?OpenDocument" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Supreme Court decision</a> on allowing illegally-obtained evidence to be used in court was <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/supreme-court-judge-criticises-ruling-on-evidence-in-trials-1.2177451" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">criticised by Judge Adrian Hardiman</a>. Transparency International lists <a href="http://transparency.ie/news_events/ireland-improves-corruption-perceptions-index" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Ireland as coming in seventeenth place on an index of 175 countries </a>the ‘perceptions of corruption’, putting us in the least corrupt ten per cent of countries.<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/adrianweckler" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Adrian Weckler</a> is the technology editor of the Irish Independent.<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/glasgaelauralee" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Laura Lee</a> is a sex worker who plans to take the government in the south and the northern assembly to the European courts to secure the right to work legally.<br> <a href="https://twitter.com/santhosh_sriniv" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Santhosh Srinivasan</a> from the Berlin headquarters of <a href="http://www.transparency.org/" data-wpel-link="external" target="_blank" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Transparency International</a> explaining the methodology behind their index of corruption.<br> Professor <a href="https://twitter.com/dfarrell_ucd" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">David Farrell</a> holds the <a href="http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/professordavidfarrell/" target="_blank" data-wpel-link="external" rel="external noopener noreferrer">Chair of Politics at UCD</a>.<br> <br>
