For abusing power, Shatter should go

Since taking office in 2011, Alan Shatter has been an energetic and reforming Minister for Justice. We support many of his initiatives - the introduction of a new court of appeal, aspects of his proposed legal services bill which seek to curtail the cartel among barristers, many of his judicial reviews.

He has demonstrated a rare resolve in the face of local opposition in his closing of small Garda stations; not all his ...