Courts Service prepared to buy  alternative courthouse site in Tralee 'after four years of council inaction' 

Town's court facilities 'continue to require extensive upgrading'

The  Courthouse in Tralee.  Four court rooms – double the number in the current building – new jury rooms, legal rooms, consultation rooms, offices, press facilities and custody cells are urgently required.
Co Kerry. Picture Dan Linehan

The Courts Service is prepared to take matters into its own hands and acquire an alternative site for a courts complex in Tralee, its chief executive has warned, saying four years of negotiations with Kerry County Council on a site which the council first offered have failed to produce a result.

Angela Denning, chief executive of the Courts Service, acknowledged the pressing need for a new courthouse in a letter to the Kerry Law Society at the weekend, and notes how a search has been ongoing for a number of years.