Joe Conway (Independent)

I will address one particular feature of the Bill, namely, the reservations I have about the delegation of defamation to judges only and the bypassing of the constitutional and long-held right of people to be tried by juries of their peers. I want to digress, maybe to add a little bit of levity to what has been a somewhat turgid session at times. When I was a much younger man I spent most of the first 12 years of my teaching life in the capital here and I lived just out the road in Ranelagh, in a place called Cherryfield Avenue.