Costly tribunals fail to impress

If THE obscenely expensive tribunals have proved one thing it is this; McCarthyism is not yet dead! If politicians have been found to have broken the law, try them in a court of law and film the proceeds. A billion euro for tribunals and all for what?

For five years in the early 1950s America, Joseph McCarthy could level any accusation at any individual without proper evidence as would be needed in a court of law and in consequence destroyed many lives. Rumours, not facts, were used to condemn.

Witch-hunts terrorised the innocent.