I have it on the most excellent authority that, in the face of complaints that the various tribunals into planning and corruption were costing a fortune and going nowhere fast, but at the same time fearing the outcry which would ensue if they tried to bring the tribunals to a sudden end, former Minister for Justice, Michael McDowell, made it a demand of his PD party’s remaining in government after the last general election that Tribunal Justices Mahon, Moriarty, et al be replaced by… Judge Judy