Popular clerk Geraldine McWeeney bids farewell to Carrick-on-Shannon Court
Reporter:
12 Feb 2021
Courts Service staff in Carrick-on-Shannon, from left, Martina Carlos, Imelda Ryan-Jones, Geraldine McWeeney, Aoife Brennan, Office Manager, and Lisa Keaney. Picture: Willie Donnellan );
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Tributes were paid to District Court Clerk, Geraldine McWeeney, on Tuesday, February 1, on the occasion of her last District Court sitting before her retirement from the Courts Service on February 12.
Leitrim State Solicitor, Noel Farrell led the way and noted that most of the practitioners in the courtroom would have known Geraldine for all their working lives.
He recalled the old facilities that existed in the former Courthouse in Carrick-on-Shannon when Geraldine, a native of Boyle, first took up her post in 1985 on transfer within the Civil Service. He said everything at that time had to be done manually, there was nothing electronic, and he described it as a different world to what e