Former justice minister’s ‘day in court’ ends badly

“The judge said there had been no denial of fair procedures by barrister Sean Guerin to Shatter, and expressed bafflement that Shatter, as a member of the government that commissioned and

FORMER Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter, thought he had a point of law, but his departure from Cabinet was just the brutal old law of political point-scoring. Taoiseach Enda Kenny could no longer justify a justice minister who lurched from one crisis to another, and so the order went out: throw Shatter from the train.

Tired of his troublesome former friend, Mr Kenny saw the Guerin report into allegations of garda wrong-doing as the perfect opportunity to dispatch Mr Shatter to the back benches and, hopefully, out of the headlines.