> It could be argued it's just plain old corruption.
How so? That's certainly a novel take that hasn't been raised by any parties to the case including the plaintiffs, so I'd like to hear your reasoning here.
> Also, it's unclear to me the things you are listing followed due to aforementioned corruption.
As a side-note, Ireland is one of the least corrupt countries in the world and broadly comparable to, say, Sweden (https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/ireland), so it's not a case that the country is a beneficiary of corrupt practices. It does, however, operate in its own interest.
Honestly, I think you don't understand the issues at hand here well enough to make this accusation. Are you aware of the political environment at the time? Of the path into law of the Lisbon Treaty? Do you know what the Irish Guarantees are, and why at the time this deal was uncontroversial in Ireland?
If anything, this is the opposite of corruption. It's likely that if the general public in Ireland knew of this outcome in 2009, the second Lisbon Treaty referendum wouldn't have passed and TFEU would have stalled completely. Short memories abound here.
How so? That's certainly a novel take that hasn't been raised by any parties to the case including the plaintiffs, so I'd like to hear your reasoning here.
> Also, it's unclear to me the things you are listing followed due to aforementioned corruption.
As a side-note, Ireland is one of the least corrupt countries in the world and broadly comparable to, say, Sweden (https://www.transparency.org/en/countries/ireland), so it's not a case that the country is a beneficiary of corrupt practices. It does, however, operate in its own interest.
Honestly, I think you don't understand the issues at hand here well enough to make this accusation. Are you aware of the political environment at the time? Of the path into law of the Lisbon Treaty? Do you know what the Irish Guarantees are, and why at the time this deal was uncontroversial in Ireland?
If anything, this is the opposite of corruption. It's likely that if the general public in Ireland knew of this outcome in 2009, the second Lisbon Treaty referendum wouldn't have passed and TFEU would have stalled completely. Short memories abound here.