THE CURRENT AFFAIRS magazine has today published an editorial which calls on the Director of Public Prosecutions to initiate legal proceedings against a number of high-profile Irish figures – or else the magazine itself will.

This is the editorial that appears in Village magazine, which is on sale today. Reproduced with kind permission from VillageMagazine.ie (Click here to read full-screen version.)

The editorial – entitled ‘Defying white-collar impunity’ – says that for Ireland to recover from its economic, social, environmental and cultural travails, it needs to make a “start with a clean page but the page in front of us is filthy”. It adds:

We have to clean it.

It goes on to suggest that the authorities – from the DPP to the financial regulator – are still not “serious about regulation” and so the magazine is vowing to act as ‘common informer’ and initiate criminal proceedings against a number of individuals.

The editorial explains: “If the proceedings are treated summarily they proceed to verdict led by the common informer; if, on indictment, the DPP may take them over after the return for trial.”

Although naming a number of people and institutions that it believes should face the rigours of the law, the magazine concludes: