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THE GOVERNMENT HAS agreed to nominate Justice Caroline Costello to the position of President of the Court of Appeal.
The vacancy arose as the current President, Justice George Birmingham, is set to retire on 4 August.
The government will formally advise President Michael D Higgins of the nomination. Under Articles 13.9 and 35.1 of the Constitution, judicial appointments are made by the President acting on the advice of the government.
Minister for Justice Helen McEntee welcomed the nomination of Costello, who she said was an “experienced judge”.
She also thanked Birmingham for his years of service.
Costello is a graduate of University College Dublin, University of Oxford and the Honourable Society of King’s Inn.
She was appointed to the High Court in 2014, and has served on the Court of Appeal since 2018.
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Time to get rid of Eamon Ryan… Trying to ride shotgun over DCC over Dublin’s transport plan and withhold funding . The only people that want it implemented are the Greens…
@Blue Moon: Issuing a veiled threat that he will withhold funding, a very cynical individual & party that are causing massive divisions & damage to Irish society, they must be wiped out.
How very odd the government seems to be putting these emergency immigrant’s accommodation in towns where there is a lot of far right activity. One wonders why?
@Ger Whelan: They’re not. No matter where the Government tries to put them, the fascists crawl out of the woodwork in their hoodies and balaclavas.
We will end up releasing some prisoners from their jail time early to accommodate violent anti- immigration protesters. They need to be given harsh North Korean style punishment that half of their muscles lost when they come out from prison and that they can’t stage violent protest again.
@William Slevin: Still here? I thought they’d have banned you by now
@Bomber: I suggest the Government should stop putting these immigration centres in towns where the protesters live. They should instead put the centers in towns where the population wants them. Maybe a townlike yours?
@William Slevin: if you say so William
@William Slevin: “Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself”
@William Slevin: if you say so William.
@William Slevin: Try reading. Works wonders if you haven’t had a lot of education.
Nothing changes in the Judicial & Legal system, all intrinsically interwoven with politics, the Golden Circle lives on.
And we think other countries are corrupt
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