Judicial system needs to catch up with the times

By any chance was Judge James O’Donoghue wearing a powdered horsehair periwig or more commonly, a wig, when chastising the unfortunate gentleman for disgracefully failing to wear a tie in court in Limerick last week?

In the sixteenth century apparently, the wig was an essential epitome of judicial sartorial elegance, decorum, and hubris, also very useful for covering up dandruff, lice, and the odd bald spot.

Things haven’t changed much in the meantime.

God forbid that the Courts Service would ever change its archaic, quaint, and wasteful modus operandi and be as efficient and as well run as Ryanair.

Reductio ad absurdum.

John Leahy

Wilton Road

Cork