Barristers crying about legal aid fees

😅 Robbing TVs is a very 1980s offence, back when televisions were quite expensive relative to income. I can't even remember the last time I even heard of anyone's TV getting robbed, and I suspect thieves don't even bother any more, not even off yer granny.

The average guard brings in over 60 k per annum, solicitors put in long hours, most guards don’t , in many parts of the country a guard is coasting or avoiding work as his main priority

many small town solicitors are earning modest sums , the big firm salaries drags up the perception in people’s minds

Again I'm actually wondering have you ever been to Paris. That area, and it's not alone, is riddled with crackheads. Champ de Mars is a crack dealing hotspot. Paris has a major crack cocaine problem that is visible city-wide.

You're premise of the supposed uniqueness of Dublin's visible drug problem falls apart with a minor poke of a stick when you're putting up Paris, the city in Europe with probably the most severe crack epidemic as you're sparkling comparison to Dublin.

Here's the rub: If you found yourself up on charges, or indeed your solicitor was seeking an advocate for a major civil case at your suit, you'd want a barrister that is an expert in that discreet area of law or at least has been under the tutelage of someone that was an expert in that discreet area of law wouldn't you?

You don't want some pimpled dork that is just out of the Inns course who doesn't have a clue what they're doing.

Big-time barristers earn their reputations very slowly, and the best ones are in very high demand for good reason. They have a combination of deep knowledge on particular area of law, and in-court skills that you wouldn't settle for less for if you were accessing justice.

I'd agree how they get there isn't entirely meritocratic, but there's enough merit there on the skills end that a bungled "reform" could see many people appointed with inferior or plain unskilled advocates for some woolly notion of equity.

It's a tricky one.

Far too many posters lapping up the hype which journos are clinging to over the drug problem in DCC, or any other part of Ireland.

The truth is that there are far more drug users harmlessly taking drugs these days than ever before. You never hear the journos complaining about those?

It is double standards and very unfair on all the respectable,hardworking and responsible drug users.