Slimming for the Beach

CPI closed down after legal threat
Siob­han Maguire
THE Cen­tre for Pub­lic Inquiry (CPI), the con­tro­ver­sial anti-corruption watch­dog, has been wound up fol­low­ing threats from a prop­erty com­pany to sue the direc­tors if they pub­lished a report into its deal­ings in Dublin’s docklands.

Trea­sury Hold­ings, one of the country’s biggest devel­op­ers, has con­firmed that legal let­ters were sent to the direc­tors of the CPI fol­low­ing a story in The Sun­day Times last Decem­ber reveal­ing that the CPI was inves­ti­gat­ing a num­ber of trans­ac­tions in docklands.”

The full Sun­day Times report

How­ever, the Cen­tre for Pub­lic Enquiry web­site is still online. While you can, down­load their reports on Trim Cas­tle — A Mon­u­ment to Bad Plan­ning? The Pro­posed Cor­rib Onshore Sys­tem — An Inde­pen­dent Analy­sis, and The Great Cor­rib Gas Con­tro­versy
here — if only for the stun­ning pho­tographs of the area in which Shell intend to bring their gas pipeline ashore.