Film-maker told to leave court

Documentary film-maker Gemma O’Doherty was ordered out of a court yesterday when she offered to give evidence in a case involving three members of one family.

Ms O’Doherty, who is showing her documentary on Ireland’s longest-missing person, six-year-old Mary Boyle, in towns around Ireland, was ordered out of Ballyshannon District Court by Judge Kevin Kilrane when he was threatening to jail one member of a family, Joe McNulty, for contempt of court.

Ms O’Doherty stepped from the back of the court as Mr McNulty was asking the judge to make a letter from a deceased garda, Michael Lawless, available for his defence and that of his father Thomas McNulty and mother Florence McNulty.