Minister should accept money in cheques, coins, cows and sheep

A judge said that if Finance Minister Michael Noonan is offered money in cows and sheep, he should accept it.

At Kilrush District Court, Judge Patrick Durcan made his comment when describing the Garda Fixed Charge Processing Unit’s decision to refuse payment of a fine, from a motorist caught driving while holding a mobile phone, in two cheques as “utterly daft”.

Judge Durcan said: “If the minister for justice is offered money in 20 cheques or in bags of 5c coins or in cattle and sheep or whatever form is offered to him, he should accept it. How daft is the system? How utterly daft have we become?”