Sir, – I am dubious of the conclusions drawn from the finding that a large majority of Supreme Court judges were the beneficiaries of attendance at fee-paying second-level schools (”Middle-class dominance on Supreme Court may have impacted rights decisions, says law lecturer “, News, December 7th). I would suspect that a similar proportion of all members of the legal profession of the same age as the present cohort of Supreme Court judges also enjoyed the social benefits of private education. The implications Dr James Rooney draws from his research regarding the consequences of this “striking unrepresentativeness” apply not specifically to one grade but to the entire legal professional, with, I would suggest, even greater adverse consequences for Irish society. – Yours, etc,
NEIL CRONIN,
Mallow,
Co Cork.