Go to the High Court over Irish, man told

The District Court judge dealing with the case against a councillor accused of blacking out street names in Cork called after Queen Victoria told him to go to the High Court if he wanted to raise the issue of having a judge fluent in Irish for the case.

Judge Olann Kelleher said: “I have already decided this twice with Mr Ó Cadhla. I am entitled to hear it through an interpreter. This is the third time I adjudicated on it. You can bring it to the High Court and get an order prohibiting me.”

Diarmaid Ó Cadhla, aged 56, of 8 Upper Beaumont Drive, Ballintemple, Cork, faces five counts of criminal damage to street signs at three locations in Cork City.