From afar, it seems so obvious. Justice Seamus Woulfe was supposed to meet with former chief justice Susan Denham, accept that he had damaged the reputation of the Supreme Court by attending the Oireachtas golf dinner in Clifden last August (inadvertently or otherwise), apologise profusely for his mistake and offer to make amends by forfeiting some of his salary or by donating it to charity. It seems equally clear that if he had ripped off the plaster quickly in this way, the pain would have been over sooner rather than later and in time he would have been absolved by…

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