Michael Clifford: Judges are a law unto themselves

A fully functional judicial council would have obviated the display of two high-profile judges involved in an unseemly face-off, says Special Correspondent Michael Clifford

Seamus Woulfe's problem is that he doesn’t have the confidence of his Supreme Court colleagues over how he handled Golfgate. Picture: Gareth Chaney
Picture: Gareth Chaney

Judges are still a law unto themselves nearly 100 years since the State came into being.

It’s no way to run a country, but that’s down to a dereliction of duty on the part of successive governments and the judiciary.