Criminal corporate liability is a debate that, in the United States, has primarily focused on ethical issues of accountability and the usefulness of criminal penalties. The current American debate on the topic may be benefited by a look into the development of criminal corporate liability in other countries, in particular in Ireland where the development of the legal system has been similar to that of the United States. In this Article, the Author gives a brief overview of the problem of instability that arises when attempting to use a common law basis for criminal corporate liability. The Author proceeds to outline a possible solution, the Irish Law Reform Commission’s (LRC) suggested legislative standard for corporate manslaughter liability, gross negligence, including the requirements of each element of the proposed test. The Author then moves to an overview of the array of the LRC’s proposed possible sanctions against corporations in criminal cases, which includes unlimited fines, remedial orders, community service orders, adverse publicity orders and restraining orders/injunctions. This Article proposes that taking a comparative look at the Irish development of proposed legislative standards in the world of criminal corporate liability, in particular the range of proposed potential sanctions, may add insight and alternative viewpoints to the American discussion and may be what the American system needs to refocus its own debate on the subject.