Irish Examiner view: Judiciary pay approval was a wasted opportunity

Coming so soon after the vote not to pay student nurses for pandemic work, yesterday’s Cabinet approval for plans to give the judiciary a pay rise in line with other pay rises across the public sector will stir several hornets’ nests.

Judges’ pay is, like it or not, compared to the earning capacity of solicitors or barristers some of whom — though not all — earn multiples of what judges are paid.