All rise... Judge Judy tours Dublin’s Four Courts

Straight-talking Judge Judy Sheindlin paid a flying visit to the Four Courts yesterday.

The American TV personality caused a buzz of excitement in the normally formal surroundings of the Four Courts as she was given a whistle stop tour of the country’s main seat of civil justice which houses the High and Circuit Civil courts.

The retired judge, who has become a star with her no-nonsense style of dispensing justice on daytime TV, was shown around the building and paid a courtesy call to Mr Justice Peter Charleton of the High Court.