Stance softens on Cork court relocations

The Courts Service appears to have softened its approach to relocating some of West Cork’s district courts to Cork City.

Last September the Courts Service wrote to the West Cork Bar Association, which represents 120 solicitors in the region, informing it that a review was taking place of district courts in Skibbereen, Clonakilty, and Kinsale, and that all three might be transferred to sittings in the city.

The news caused uproar, not just among those in the legal profession, but business interests who feared they would lose trade in the towns if the district court sittings were removed.