The Supreme Court decision (http://www.courts.ie/Judgments.nsf/09859e7a3f34669680256ef3004a27de/0082a1c81cbf42a880257e28005387c4?OpenDocument) on allowing illegally-obtained evidence to be used in court was criticised by Judge Adrian Hardiman (http://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/supreme-court-judge-criticises-ruling-on-evidence-in-trials-1.2177451). Transparency International lists Ireland as coming in seventeenth place on an index of 175 countries (http://transparency.ie/news_events/ireland-improves-corruption-perceptions-index)the 'perceptions of corruption', putting us in the least corrupt ten per cent of countries.

Adrian Weckler (https://twitter.com/adrianweckler) is the technology editor of the Irish Independent.

Laura Lee (https://twitter.com/glasgaelauralee) 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.

Santhosh Srinivasan (https://twitter.com/santhosh_sriniv) from the Berlin headquarters of Transparency International (http://www.transparency.org/)  explaining the methodology behind their index of corruption.

Professor David Farrell (https://twitter.com/dfarrell_ucd) holds the Chair of Politics at UCD (http://www.ucd.ie/research/people/politicsintrelations/professordavidfarrell/).