Exposed : The Scandals that Rocked the State by Frank Connolly

James Connolly’s journalism was directly involved in investigations that contributed to the establishment of tribunals into planning and Garda corruption, and in this flash back to our recent past, he takes us down the murky corridors of power to the empty streets of our ghost estates, exposing the Ireland that decades of corruption built. Drawing on fifteen years as an investigative journalist with The Sunday Business Post and the Irish Mail on Sunday, Connolly charts the scandals that shook the State, and the political personalities and the events at the forefront of this dark time:

· The Moriarty Tribunal and its findings concerning Michael Lowry

· Planning corruption and political payments

· Garda misconduct in the North-West

· The Gilmartin affair

· Liam Lawlor, Ray Burke and other figures from the tribunals era

His investigations helped trigger tribunals that revealed cronyism, illicit payments, and the abuse of office by politicians and business elites alike.

Exposed covers Charles Haughey and the political culture of the era, Bertie Ahern and his 2008 resignation, and it unearths the continuity of corruption and greed in Ireland: the Moriarty Tribunal’s findings on Michael Lowry, Garda misconduct in the North-West, and the policies that seeded our disastrous housing crisis. Connolly shows how one government after another enriched the few while denying a generation the right to secure, affordable homes.