{"id":270593,"date":"2026-01-29T18:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270593\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T18:57:10","slug":"irelands-corporate-crime-watchdog-cea-rejects-reports-that-workplace-culture-is-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/270593\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland\u2019s corporate crime watchdog CEA rejects reports that workplace culture is \u2018toxic\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ian Drennan, head of the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Photos: Shane O'Neill\/Coalesce and Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e095cefd-5cae-4ed7-aba6-fa494ae71d5b.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ian Drennan, head of the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Photos: Shane O&#8217;Neill\/Coalesce and Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Officials at the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA) have rejected reports that the workplace environment in the agency is \u201ctoxic\u201d at a hearing of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">On Thursday, representatives from the CEA, including chairman Ian Drennan appeared before PAC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ian Drennan, head of the Corporate Enforcement Authority. Photos: Shane O&#8217;Neill\/Coalesce and Getty Officials at the Corporate Enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[45,895,3775,61,60,8650,43,7732],"class_list":["post-270593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-fianna-fail","tag-fine-gael","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-james-geoghegan","tag-news","tag-tabitha-monahan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}