Remarkable but predictable ruling

IVOR CALLELY has won a remarkable — but, it has to be said, very predictable — victory in the courts.

He had essentially been found guilty by a committee of his Seanad peers of fiddling his expenses. The High Court yesterday overturned that finding and said Senator Callely had been wronged.

It now raises the possibility that, rather than Mr Callely being forced to repay monies to the Seanad, the Seanad may now have to pay a very substantial sum of money to him to cover both his docked pay and his legal costs.