Edward Walsh SC and Constance Cassidy SC are also both robed up for this. Arenāt they they husband and wife team from Lissadell House?
I donāt know
Willie Penrose has a junior brief as well, I see for Donie Cassidy.
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they are indeed
Yes, the Lissadell House couple, Miriam Lord called them Irelandās foremost libertarian law practicers or something like that
Constance is the Number 1 licensing expert in the country, I believe?
Is it really necessary to have a cast of Senior Counsel for a regulatory prosecution like this?
Senior Counsel are needed when there are escaped goats to herd.
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An oxymoron if there ever was one. Willie, God bless him, would do serious damage at a carvery.
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Does Donies wig have separate representation?
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This is some waste of money. They should have funded them 50k each and let them appeal it after that if they wanted to.
He has a relatively new one, one that reflects his advancing years.
Heās morphed from a foxy one to more a badger look.
He, no doubt, retains all the cunning of your pet fox.
Woulfie was giving evidence today I believe
As weāve seen from denhams report, woulfie has serious credibility issues
Donie is one of the in laws best friends heās some operator I can tell you, over 20 years ago we were at a wedding in his company and he was asking me how I was getting on small talk etc I mentioned about the train service to Dublin as I was commuting and how it was frequently late breakdowns etc. Lo and behold about 2 weeks later I get a letter with the harp on it from the bould Donie letting me know heād raised my concerns with the CEO of Irish Rail and what wonderful things were in the offing. This was just before the GE in 2002 when he unseated his ācloseā
colleague the school marm from Athlone who was Minister for Transport at the time.
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Politics.
He appeared proactive and captured the vote ensuring election.
I have grave doubts if the rail link improved but at least he appeared interested.
20 years on 166 of the duds are repeating this heartwarming exercise.
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Theyāre hardly on the legal aid so at least itās coming out of their own pockets and not yours. I wouldnāt imagine Michael McDowell, Constance Cassidy and Eddie Walsh would be slumming it out on legal aid daily rates.
If they win (which I suspect they might) they could bring a case of malicious prosecution and the whole is left with the bill?
The DPPās office is independent and itās the prerogative of the DPP as to whether it prosecutes based on the strength of the evidence.
And?