Bertie’s political bodyguard gets his timing right for attack on tribunal

THE judicial tribunals came in for some stick this week. There is little doubt that people have been turned off by extravagant costs.

The beef tribunal ended up as little better than a farce in that nobody was held responsible.

The McCracken tribunal did come to some firm conclusions, but nobody has yet been held responsible for the misbehaviour that was exposed. Charlie Haughey was charged with obstructing that tribunal, at which he repeatedly perjured himself, but somehow the courts concluded he could not get a fair trial because he was being investigated for other matters. Thus that courts effectively undermined the work of the tribunal.