‘Dog’s dinner’ bill

Even if you don’t regard yesterday’s intervention by the Attorney General Seamus Woulfe on Transport Minister Shane Ross’s controversial bill to overhaul the appointment of judges as something above the pay grade of an unelected law officer, you cannot ignore his core message.

Mr Woulfe suggested that because of amendment after amendment, compromise after compromise to appease a rainbow of opinions, the bill is a “dog’s dinner” and, in its present guise, is not for purpose.