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A BARRISTERS’ STRIKE meant that a number of Dublin Circuit Criminal Court trials did not begin today while the Central Criminal Court in Dublin did not sit at all.
A total of eight cases were listed for trial in court 7 in the Criminal Courts of Justice at Parkgate Street, with Court President Judge Patricia Ryan adjourning them all, most until tomorrow.
No barristers were present in court for the callover, with solicitors present instead to take note of the adjournments.
The Central Criminal Court did not sit today either, with trials due to resume tomorrow.
The strike, the second in a week, saw dozens of barristers gather outside the building to protest the level of fees paid to criminal practitioners, which they say were cut from between 28 and 60 per cent during the 2008 to 2011 period.
They are expected to withdraw their services again on Wednesday next, July 24. It is an escalation of strike action, which began in October 2023.
They maintain the Government has failed to honour a commitment it made last year to carry out an independent review of fee rates.
A number of ‘devil’ barristers, who work at District Court level, joined their senior colleagues outside the building.
They made additional calls on the Government, asking for an immediate increase in pay to barristers working in the District Court, where solicitors pass them on work.
“Solicitors give work to early-years barristers like myself,” explained Áine Holt, who has been practising law as a devil barrister for the past two years.
“If you get an application, you’re given €27.72,” she said. “You might just get, if you’re lucky, one application, and that’s all you’re going to get for that particular day. The whole situation is unfair, unjust.”
Her colleague, Darren Lalor BL, said that if the cuts were unwound that fee would also go up, and it would give people like him an opportunity to remain in practice, and not just to rely on hope.
“We’re moving forward together,” he said. “But the reality is that a lot of people at my level cannot hang on to talk about pay restoration. They’re striking for the immediate increase.”
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Some stunt he tried to pull yesterday. Is this what we should expect for the next 5 years? Trumpian politics. May god have mercy on us all.
@Anthony Curran: You anti state shinners Don’t get we rejected you and will continue to do stick to your Kangaroo courts
@Tim Brennan: yet Sinn Féin still got more TD’s than Fine Gael
@Anthony Curran: the shouty Shinners were the ones pulling stunts yesterday
@Tim Brennan: Funny how anything said against this government is suddenly “mUh sHinNeRs, mUh MarY LoUuu” it’d be hilarious if it wasn’t so sad. Are the authors and mods still running fake accounts for revenue aye?
@Johnny Wilson: The shouty Shinners, as you call them, were the ones defending democracy yesterday, while FF/FG were attempting to subvert it. Shocking abuse of power.
@Anthony Curran: The country could use some Trumpian politics..
@Anthony Curran: You are purposely ignoring the fact that there were other minority Parties involved ! SF supporters only see what they want, BLINKERED AS USUAL !
All the pieces of the pie, and positions at the trough sorted then
@Michael Burke: The obstructionist bullies sorted out.
Great to see the annointed one begin his term as twoseach with a bloody nose.
The spectre of Michael Lowry will hang low over this government.
What on Earth were they thinking?
@Louis Jacob: Fifteen years trying to damage Lowry failed. One of the longest failed witch hunts so far.
@thomas molloy: Oh dear God. You’re there completely spineless or hopelessly thick. I hope for your sake it’s the first one.
@Louis Jacob: You’re either…
@Louis Jacob: Did you forget to mention the Slab Murphy Northern Bank and where did Doherty get the cash to pay for his house build
Zero leadership qualities, has overseen the mess Ireland has become over 30 years. Slithery thin lipped prik of a man
@Freda Peeple: achieved more than you, all you do is sit around in your underpants in your mother’s spare room, being a pathetic little keyboard warrior
@Freda Peeple: play the ball, not the man.
@pee wee: I don’t have time to incinerate you again haha
@Freda Peeple: nothing to stop you leaving
@Freda Peeple: But he promised change in the debate no?
@Freda Peeple: you haven’t time for trolling?
@Johnny Wilson: Why would I leave? I’ll be here long after the traitors. “Johnmy Wilson” another one of the profiles belonging to that social outcast
@Freda Peeple: I’d say your da’s hole is sore, your ma loves begging the poor little man lol
@pee wee:Weird, always with the default deviant creep stuff, zero wit or intelligence involved. The inner workings of your brain is in the gutter. Where you were conceived
@Louis Jacob: yes “change” 30 years of change.
@Freda Peeple: I told you to up your game or I’m not participating, such an amateur
@Freda Peeple: He’s like a butterfly
Dark clouds coming (not the storm)
@New Boy: What, then?
@Brendan O’Brien: he was on the guinness last night.
Martin, see u next Tuesday
Can he do a good job?
Unfortunately not.
Never should be in office.
Time to reassess our system.
@Chop Chop: Didn’t turn out quite right but still works :-)
I’ve never witnessed such efforts to cripple to democracy as this government have attempted. Even during the sham supply and confidence that allowed Fianna Fáil to remain opposition while supporting the Blue-Shirts, and again, it was indenpendents that cane bounding forth to be the government’s little dog that came bounding forth to sit on their master’s knee to be rubbed and given treats for doing their bidding. And you have cowards on here attacking Sinn Féin, if they ever tried a move like that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael would be all over it, but not so when they do it, people like that are poodles, just there to be rubbed on the belly and told that they are good.
@Brian D’Arcy: you obviously don’t like democracy, typical little shinner mindset
@Brian D’Arcy: Hilarious stuff, and utterly pointless. Yesterday was a storm in a tea cup, people have always said that TDs don’t speak enough in the Dail, but the reaction, threat to democracy blah blah blah is Hilarious, it was used to scupper a legitimate process, and the antics of SF especially, Matt Carty was like a football hooligan….no respect, no professionalism from him yesterday.
I’m getting back to my chores now as that’s more important than political handbags .
Today is truly a great day indeed, a day in which Ireland can stand tall and proud, a day which, I’m sure, will bring even greater days, weeks, months and years ahead.
Congratulations, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin.
@pee wee: nice trolling there peewee
@pee wee haha praise from a celibate simpleton, sounds about right
@Freda Peeple: pathetic trolling, up your game or I’m not participating
@pee wee: Still sore from last night? So is your mammy
@Freda Peeple: I don’t suck you ma’s jugs anymore, she too old and I don’t really like cheese
@pee wee: . Pee Flynn.
@pee wee: Haha primary school trolling, stunted wetwipe of a man :)
@Freda Peeple: what a comeback, BTW, tell your ma I want mine back
@pee wee: Nice, stealing jokes off Jimmy care now? You have NOTHING haha, Iltje one thing you do all day, and you are still brutal :) stick to the peddle and cranking,
@Freda Peeple: really looking forward to giving your ma the toilet seat tonight. :)
@pee wee: It sad how you have developmental problems, obsessed with mammys and twisted sexual stuff. If only you were nurtured instead of neutered you might have had a chance
@Freda Peeple: pot kettle, go eat some crayons ya child lol
This government elected on a wet evening in November with a low electoral turnout, they will go out in a storm. They tried their best skulduggery below deck, and they failed with their scheming underhand tactics and failed,little do they know they have awakened a sleeping giant, they will not have a mandate to lead the country, their is no way they can fix everything with this leadership of corruption, doomed to fail.
M Martin thanks his wife and The only party in the Dail not to applaud Mary Lou and co. Need I say more as nasty a bunch as you will ever encounter
@Tim Brennan: Why would SF clap for a guy who considers them and their supporters beneath him? Grow up ffs
I can’t believe we have actually elected Martin to a second term as Taoiseach. He literally achieved nothing in his first 2.5 years in the role and he utterly failed in every aspect of the economy. Under his watch, we had record-high inflation that hit nearly 10%, an 8.5% unemployment rate and did absolutely nothing productive. He made the conscious decision to implement the disastrous lockdown policies that didn’t work and multiple studies have indicated this. As Minister for Heath, he’s responsible for creating the useless monstrosity that is the HSE and brought in the nanny-state smoking ban. As Minister for Enterprise, he oversaw our economy collapsing in 2008. As Minister for Foreign Affairs, his obsessive antisemitic hatred of Israel was grating and embarrassing. He’s such a failure.
@William Jennings: BELIEVE IT, AND LEARN TO LIVE WITH IT ! Stop crying and learn to live with a Majority Electorate, END OF ! ! !
@James Keogh: The only person who isn’t “believing” is you James. All I’ve said is purely factual information. Martin has literally achieved nothing in any role that he’s had and is yet another example of an Irish politician continually falling upwards. Also, Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael didn’t get a majority, so stop lying. They only got a combined vote of 43%, the lowest in Irish history. You have no sort of coherent rebuttal to the points I made. Is that because you know I’m right?
All of his own making the fiasco yesterday
What a waste of space that thing is
FFG now under full control of israel and lowry
A bit of stability wouldn’t go amiss… this is the 3rd Taoiseach in the last 10 months
‘I shouted out, “Who killed the Kennedys” when, after all, it was you and me’ is always a good quote after elections when people put self interests over national interests when voting and then have the audacity scream blue murder about the actions of the government, and that goes for peoplr who don’t vote as well. Pilitics defines everything in our lives, whether we like it or not, so stating that there’s no-one to vote for is a cheap cop out.
@Brian D’Arcy: The CIA assassinated JFK.
@Brian D’Arcy: Might define your life most of us couldn’t give a shyte.
Congratulations to Micheál Martin on his election as Taoiseach. A huge honour for him personally and for his family. His not without faults though. He supports Nemo Rangers LOL!
*Entry of the Gladiators begins playing*
Never ending circle
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