Woulfe-Clarke meeting on Golf-Gate postponed for ‘medical reasons’

A meeting between Chief Justice Frank Clarke and Supreme Court Justice Seamus Woulfe was postponed to next Tuesday following a request for a medical postponement from Woulfe.

In a statement tonight, a spokesman for the Chief Justice said that Justice Clarke “has received a request for a further postponement for medical reasons and has agreed to set the meeting for Tuesday next week.”

A meeting between the two men had been scheduled for Monday, but the Chief Justice postponed it until Friday, following a request for a delay from the former attorney general.

A statement issued on behalf of the Chief Justice said: “This week the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court had postponed his scheduled meeting with Mr. Justice Woulfe until the following Friday.

“The Chief Justice has received a request for an additional adjournment for medical reasons and has agreed to set the meeting for Tuesday next week.

“This Chief Justice had emphasized to Mr. Justice Woulfe the urgency of carrying out this process.”

The two judges were ready to meet to discuss the consequences of Woulfe’s attendance at the controversial Golfgate dinner at Clifden in August.

Last week, a review of Woulfe’s dinner attendance by former Chief Justice Susan Denham found it would be “unfair and disproportionate” for the judge to resign.

However, further controversy ensued after transcripts of an interview given by Woulfe to Denham in the course of the review, released last week, described media coverage of the scandal as “egregious” with claims that the social event it was treated as the “Ku Klux Klan”. .

With information from Stephen McDermott.