Go-ahead for new and refurbished courthouses

New courthouses are to be built in four locations with major refurbishment in three additional sites under a plan signed off yesterday.

The new facilities will be in Drogheda, Letterkenny, Limerick and Wexford, while extensive renovations will be carried out on the courthouses of Cork, Waterford and Mullingar.

Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said final Public Private Partnership contracts for the new buildings will be concluded this November and construction would begin soon after, with the facilities opening by the end of 2017.