{"id":313,"date":"2011-10-17T11:41:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-end-of-courtroom-horsehair-wigs-tradition\/"},"modified":"2011-10-17T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T11:41:49","slug":"crowe-welcomes-end-of-courtroom-horsehair-wigs-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-welcomes-end-of-courtroom-horsehair-wigs-tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe welcomes end of courtroom horsehair wigs tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe welcomes end of courtroom horsehair wigs tradition<\/p>\n<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the ending of the outdated tradition of judges horsehair wearing wigs in court. Deputy Crowe described the wearing of wigs as outdated, pompous and a waste of taxpayers\u2019 money.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPayouts of \u20ac2,200 plus for each judge\u2019s wig are indefensible particularly with an outdated, pompous and imperialist tradition that benefits nobody.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when special needs assistants are losing their jobs, hospital wards are closing, rent allowance is being cut and thousands face losing their medical cards, it is plain inexcusable to be spending such incredible amounts on courtroom pomp and ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s long past the time that priorities were set right and the system changed and I welcome the ending of this tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crowe welcomes end of courtroom horsehair wigs tradition Sinn F\u00e9in TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has welcomed the ending of the outdated tradition of judges horsehair wearing wigs in court. Deputy Crowe described the wearing of wigs as outdated, pompous and a waste of taxpayers\u2019 money. He said: \u201cPayouts of \u20ac2,200 plus for each judge\u2019s wig are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}