Elaine Byrne: Ross must take charge and give our watchdogs some teeth

A love letter to the "outsider" who is now an "insider"

Minister Shane Ross Pic: RollingNews.ie

This is a love letter to Minister Shane Ross. The “outsider” who is now an insider with the well-intentioned motive to reform the “rotten” judicial appointment process by creating a new judicial appointments commission. Please don’t repeat the same mistakes as your predecessors. Here’s why.

The Irish response to crises over the past 20 years is the establishment of new independent oversight bodies. These regulatory agencies will magic away whatever controversy has demanded ...