Work starts on €120m complex of 22 courts

WORK on a €120m landmark criminal court complex in Dublin, capable of handling over 200,000 criminal cases each year, is scheduled to begin next week, and is due for completion in 2010.

Details of the new 22-courtroom facility to be housed in an “iconic, round” building were announced by the Courts Service yesterday.

All existing criminal courts in the capital will be relocated to the complex in the largest investment in court buildings in the history of the Irish legal system.