THE OLD Lady of Tara Street will need smelling salts if or when Shane Ross’s execrable Judicial Appointments Bill is passed into legislation. The Irish Times’s deference to the judiciary has seen it fight valiantly against any encroachment on judges’ “independence”, ie the 2016 cut in their salary levels — a threat to the “corner… Read more »
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