After the McCracken, Moriarty and Flood tribunals, it is hardly surprising that Ireland does not top the list of the world's most honest countries, as compiled by Transparency International's World Corruption Index.
The Republic features as the 18th most honest country, behind the likes of those cleaner than clean Finns and Danes in first and second place.
Against that, we are seen as a less corrupt nation than the Germans (20th), the Japanese (21st), the Spanish (22nd) and the French (23rd) not to mention the Italians in 29th place and the Greeks in 42nd.
For the record, the least corrupt, according to the survey, are the Finns, Danes, New Zealanders, Icelanders and the Singaporeans.
The five where you are most likely to be asked for a brown envelope, in worsening order of corruption, are Kenya, Indonesia, Uganda, Nigeria and Bangladesh.
Probably explains those occasional faxes from Nigerian investors wanting your bank account number so that they can go ahead and deposit loads of loot in it!
