You call that justice?

The 30th amendment to the Constitution could see the Oireachtas take on the role of a kangaroo court, allowing members to assault the name of anyone they choose, writes Dan Buckley

IN the current edition of the legal journal The Irish Law Times the former chief justice, Ronan Keane echoes the concerns of many members of our judiciary when he argues that the proposal to cut the pay of judges, by way of referendum, will adversely affect their independence.

Apart from the obvious counterargument that a decade of pay increases hardly increased their independence, our judges should be far more worried about a second referendum to be put to the electorate next Thursday, the same day as the presidential election.