Karl Deeter: Trust issues...why An Taisce is a third-party meddler

Whether we want to be saved or not, this quango-charity is always ready to swoop

Charles Stanley Smith spokes person for An Taisce speaking in 2011 Pic:RollingNews.ie

O ne of the greatest scourges I can think of is the ‘unaffected third party’ situation that is common across the developed world.

It goes like this: party ‘A’ (which can be a person or a company) tries to do something which party ‘B’ disagrees with. Party B can put in place a process which is of little cost to them but highly costly to A. The rub is that even if B ...