Complex sentence: Yet Healy did not rate Madden especially highly as a judge, even allowing that his reputation was bound to suffer in comparison to such outstanding contemporaries as Christopher Palles and Hugh Holmes, in an era when the quality of Irish judges has probably never been higher.
Split into simpler sentences: Yet Healy did not rate Madden especially highly as a judge. Admittedly his reputation was bound to suffer in comparison to such outstanding contemporaries as Christopher Palles and Hugh Holmes, in an era when the quality of Irish judges has probably never been higher.