Just 20% showed up for jury duty last year

Only around one in five people called up for jury duty last year ended up attending in court, with large numbers of no shows and excusals still being recorded.

Figures released by the Courts Service show 42,840 people were asked to serve on a jury at Dublin’s Criminal Courts of Justice in 2019. Of those, 29,682 were excused, with another 4,248 described as no shows.