No funding in budget for much-anticipated new courthouse for Kerry 

Courts service agreed to purchase a half-acre site on the western side of Tralee for €160,000 over a year ago

Tralee Courthouse: 'It now seems that for years to come the people who use the courts complexes in Kerry will be forced to endure Dickensian conditions,' Tralee solicitor Canice Walsh said.

No funding has been set aside for a much anticipated new county courthouse for Kerry in Budget 2024, the chief executive of the Courts Service informed the Kerry Law Society this weekend.

The news has come as a shock to legal circles in Kerry, which has been awaiting the transfer of a county council site in Tralee to the courts service.