Whenever I think about Tusla, the state’s Child and Family agency, I think to myself about the sums of money awaiting future generations of lawyers when the Tribunal of Inquiry is finally called.
Tribunals are a lawyer’s dream. In the McCracken and Flood and Beef varieties, some young barristers entered as up and coming junior counsel and left set for life, with the kinds of fortune one can only otherwise obtain from a win on the Euromillions plus. There’s one such (now mature) gentleman known to me who owns three houses, all, he would admit (in private) paid for by state investigations into the corruption of people like Michael Lowry and Charles Haughey.
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