Kearns: Judicial concerns ‘are well founded’

Ireland’s second most senior judge has come out in support of the Association of Judges in Ireland and issued a public rebuke to the master of the High Court, Edmund Holohan.

In an unprecedented intervention in the row over judicial independence, the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, said concerns raised by the AJI — of which he is not a member — “are well founded”.

He said he hoped those concerns would be addressed urgently by the Government.