BY JACKIE KEOGHDESPITE the efficiency of the acting State solicitor in West Cork, a local TD has called on the Department of Justice to formally appoint one specifically for this jurisdiction.‘There is an alarming lack of urgency from the Department of Justice and the Office of
‘HE has set a standard for others to follow,’ is how Plunkett Taaffe, president of the West Cork Bar Association, described Sgt Paul Kelly, West Cork’s first court presenter, on the occasion of his retirement.‘Professional, well-prepared, accommodating and, above all, scr
THE district courts in West Cork will be ‘quieter and duller’ without Bantry-based solicitor Ray Hennessy, according to Judge James McNulty.The judge was speaking following Mr Hennessy’s surprise announcement at a recent sitting of Clonakilty District Court that he was reti