proverbs Is fearr socrú dá dhonacht ná dlí dá fheabhas.
It's better to solve the problem than to improve the law.
There is a world of difference between the letter of the law and the spirit of the law and it is better for people to come to a mutual agreement between themselves rather than to resort to the law.
Mr Bumble in Dickens' Oliver Twist got it right. "If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble,... "the law is a ass - a idiot.
If that's the eye of the law, the law is a bachelor; and the worst I wish the law is that his eye may be opened by experience."
The law has been seen as an ass for a long time in the north of Ireland but local solutions to local problems seem to have been insoluble since time immemorial but the law is held in such low regard that the problems seen ready to go on and on and on and on...