O'Malley: removal of Seamus Woulfe would be 'entirely disproportionate'

Law lecture says an apology from Seamus Woulfe - which he has already made - is an appropriate response to Golf Gate. 

The removal of Supreme Court judge Seamus Woulfe over the ‘Golfgate’ controversy would be “entirely disproportionate”, a prominent legal expert has said.

Tom O’Malley, a senior lecturer in law at University College Galway, said that in Judge Woulfe’s case an apology, which he has already made, or an admonishment would “surely be the appropriate response” if he was found to have been at fault in attending the dinner organised by the Oireachtas Golf Society in a Galway hotel last Wednesday week.