Silence on constitutional crisis not confined to media

When is a constitutional crisis not a constitutional crisis? When the Taoiseach is hiding behind the Four Courts, hoping it will all just go away, apparently.

With most of the media silenced by an injunction, Enda Kenny is by choice saying nothing on a pivotal matter of national importance. The controversy centres on what takes precedent: A citizen’s right to privacy; a TD’s right to be heard; and the media’s right to report what is being said in the Dáil.

For veteran Socialist TD Joe Higgins, the Constitutional situation could not be clearer: “Article 15 gives privilege to parliamentarians who speak in the Dáil and then article 34 says that the judiciary has to be subject to the Constitution.”