Tralee thread

Are they also on the anti-Ukraine pro-Putin bandwagon now? 🤣

You'd think its proximity to the Cop shop would dissuade people from doing that.

What passes for news on RK these days is increasingly pathetic

It'll give all the clientele somewhere nice to sit while they're waiting for their case to be called.

Agree 100%. Brillant day for the town. I have never heard such tripe as that spoken about the island of geese being given to the people of Tralee!!! For what. A second town park??? We will now have a modern court facility in the town centre. Hopefully, the old courthouse can be used in time as a museum etc.

On what basis do you say "the majority of people disagree with moving". You have no evidence of that other than listening to the same few online who oppose everything in Tralee and shout the loudest. The democratically elected members of our council voted in favor. That's enough for me. Democracy prevailed. Nothing "sneaky or disrespectful" about a democratic vote in the chamber. Some of the online abuse directed at elected members on foot of the vote is shameful. And for the record, the vast majority I have spoken to agree with the move and welcome the fact that we won't loose our court service to Limerick. Believe it or not, it brings business to the town.

Where did you see that

We all know why it's going into where it is, because it would put the solicitors noses out of joint to have to travel up to Ballymullen. There was absolutely nothing democratic about the process, or pricing of the site. If it was available for purchase as the (5 out of 7) democratically elected councillors have decided, then it should have been put on the market rather than the nominal fee (160k) that they will receive for it. So now we can build a new court house at massive cost to the tax payer, increase our LPT as our (5 out of 7) democratically elected councillors continue to insist on doing, and let the old existing building rot.

Absolutely, but unfortunately opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one, and I think that’s the problem.

People also think their opinions count, and they don’t, not anymore anyway, more especially when they are uneducated and miss informed opinions.

Just because people don’t want it to be moved doesn’t mean it gets to stay where it is. It HAD to be moved, it was a necessity not an opinion. People think it they hold a placard get their picture taken and have a protest it’ll change the mind of the courts service and the council.

Most people advocating for it to stay have never even set foot in the old court house or are even aware of the poor facilities that it has.

People are now running with the story that the old building will be left to rot however absolutely NO decision has been made yet as to the future of the old court.

The court house isn’t solely for Tralee people it covers all of Kerry and beyond.

The town centre site makes perfect sense, if it was ballymullen we’d be whinging it’s too far out of town and taking business away from town centre.

🤣 if I was a member of the law society I wouldn’t be dicking around on boards.ie.

my reference to “we” was as in we the tralee people I was included myself in that bracket as a person from tralee.

People do work there, you know. Having a public building with no disability access in this day and age is inexcusable. The building is ancient and difficult and costly to maintain and repair on top of that.Personally don't see the logic in locating the courthouse to Ballymullen. Its the type of building that's best suited to a central location close to the Garda station. And no, I'm not a member of the law society, a criminal or a garda.

The how often someone avails of the service or visits the court is irrelevant, if the service it’s providing isn’t fit for purpose it has to be rectified. You only need to be the unfortunate victim of one court case in your life for it to have an impact.

It was mentioned above that it’s not just about criminal law, there’s also family law and very sensitive private cases that take place at the court house in Tralee. From what I am told and have read there are very limited facilities for children or families involved in cases in terms of private rooms or waiting areas. Likewise those who are victims of domestic and sexual assault have very limited facilities to separate themselves from the general public or their attackers, often these people are having to wait in the same areas as those who are alleged to have committed the offence. If you or a family member happened to be the victim of a crime and had the accused staring you off in the lobby you might be looking at things from a different angle.

The disabled facilities which I mentioned before are also not existent and in this day in age that is totally unacceptable

Moving the court to an out of town location like ballymullen you would lose the footfall of judges, solicitors, barristers, jury’s, court staff, journalists, photographers, Gardai, the families of victims, families of criminals, etc. they all have to eat, drink coffee, park their cars and kill time in between court sittings and during recess’s etc, it is far from a tourist attraction however people from all over Kerry and beyond travel to the court every day for business of some sort. Losing the court to an out of town location would have a knock on effect to a lot of the towns businesses.

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