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IRISH JUDGES ARE among the highest paid in Europe, second only to judges in Scotland, a report by the The European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) showed.
An average Irish judge earned a gross salary of €147,961 in 2010 with Scotland’s €150,106 gross salary for judges topping the list. The lowest paid judges in Europe were in Moldova with a gross salary of just €3,220 in 2010.
The gross annual salary for a Supreme Court Judge in Ireland was €257,872 second only to Scotland and Moldova’s Supreme Court Judges salaries again ranked lowest at just €4,756 in 2010.
The report also showed 23 European states have less than two assistants per professional judge while Ireland, Scotlans and Portugal had the highest ratio from three assistants per judge to seven.
Legal aid and public prosecutors
The total annual approved budget allocated to the whole Irish justice system in 2010 was around €2.5 billion. German spent the most in 2010 on its whole justice system in 2010 with a figure of over €13 billion.
A budget of over €280 million was was approved for the courts, public prosecution and legal aid in 2010.
The net annual salary of an Irish public prosecutor was €33,576 according to the report with Swiss public prosecutors earning tip net salaries of over €85,000 in 2010, according to the report.
The report also showed global legal aid budgets increased by 18 per cent on average between 2008 and 2010 in Europe.
The total number of legal aid cases granted per 100,000 inhabitants in Ireland was approximately 1412 with around 1200 of those criminal cases, second only to Monaco.
The average amount of legal aid allocated per case in 2010 was €1,351 with an average of €992 allocated for criminal cases.
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RIP. Such a sad loss.
I’m taking it that comment was supposed to be sarcastic?
If not you should forget the romanticised film version and educate yourself as to the kind of person he really was.
No flies on you, eh?
Apologies Ruairi if I didn’t spot the obvious, but there will probably be many on here who believe the folk-hero robin hood guff.
The reality is that he was a career criminal from an early age for whom stealing horses and other livestock from his equally poor neighbours (Irish and otherwise) was just business as usual. He formed a ruthless personal vendetta against an (admittedly corrupt) police force and killed several of them in cold blood. He robbed several banks, but there is absolutely no evidence that he shared his ill-gotten gains with the wider community in any shape or form – the robin-hood label is totally misguided.
And all because his father allegedly stole two pigs.
There are two ways to rob a bank . First is the ned Kelly way go in with a gun and grab what you can ,,, then there is the new Irish was go in for a meeting with the the manager have a chat get a big loan ,,,, then don’t pay it back ,,,, blame everyone but your self ,,,, hide all the money you have in a different country and leave it for the Irish people to pay back ,,, so who is the biggest villain ?????
Doesn’t mean the lesser villain isn’t still a villain though….
ah lighten up he makes a good story
In 100 years time the murdering gangs of today could well be revered as folk heros. Sad thought.
Never mind in 100 years time. Sean Quinn is very popular in caven and within gaa. Micheal lowry is very popular in tipp. Mick Wallace is very popular in wexford. And even with some ppl having to hid there love for bertie his still got some support around the country. Just to.note I do not support any of the above.
If he was alive today he’d probably be holding up cash in transit vans or conducting tiger kidnappings. That’s the sort of lad we’re talking about. Don’t let the fact he was Irish fool you into thinking he was a good man.
He was a murdering thief, end of.
“IF”………………..”PROBABLY” ………..
It’s called the power of injustice, and injustice pays its price.
So Robin Hood must have been a villain too?
Very true !!!!!!
Robin hood was a thief ,, nothing else ,, the English just like to look up to him
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