Judge dismisses jury in slow week for crime

A SENIOR judge said that crime is so low in Limerick there isn’t enough work for his court this week.

Judge Sean O Donnabhain’s comments came yesterday just days after Limerick crime hit the headlines following a study carried out by UCC academic, Dr Niamh Hourigan, who gave chilling accounts of her encounters with young children involvedin violent antisocialbehaviour in deprivedestates.

Judge O Donnabhain, presiding at Limerick Circuit Court, said he was sending home more than 40 people who came to answer summonses to serve on juries during the present criminal session, as there was no work for them to do.