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judge should be dismissed?

  • 31-07-2012 9:25am
    #1
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭


    surely a judge is supposed to set the example, but what happens when they do not? yet another bizarre judgement that will be soon forgotten about.



    I wish to express my shock at the outrageous €600 fine imposed on Judge James O'Donohue at Clifden Court (Irish Independent, July 28).

    The judge was merely driving along the road, minding his own business, when a garda stopped him and requested him to take a breath test, on the flimsy pretext of trying to make our roads safer.

    Naturally, like any law-abiding citizen, the Circuit Court judge rejected such an impertinent request, thereby exposing himself to the full rigour of Section 12 (3) of the Road Traffic Act.

    I'd like to hear what Gay Byrne and the Road Safety Authority have to say about this shocking case.

    Ian Kelly
    Dublin 14

    Irish Independent

    http://www.independent.ie/opinion/letters/poor-judgment-3182920.html

    some interesting comments attached to it.


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  • #2
    JustAThought
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,324 ✭✭✭JustAThought


    Roooight.

    Sounds like young Ian is looking for an apprenticeship to the bar.
    Or perhaps he got one; with said Judge .


  • #3
    wmpdd3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,625 ✭✭✭wmpdd3


    Rrefusing the breath test used to attract the maximum penenlty for drink driving, what happened?


  • #4
    Fuinseog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,371 ✭✭✭Fuinseog


    wmpdd3 wrote: »
    Rrefusing the breath test used to attract the maximum penenlty for drink driving, what happened?

    judges looking after their own?


  • #5
    McCrack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,983 ✭✭✭McCrack


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056713002

    Might help people to understand the charge and the consequent fine.

    Ian gets shocked too easily, I can think of far more shocking things.


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