From the Irish Press, 14 March 1947:
“It was ‘Raining’ In the Courts.
When the business of the two Circuit Courts was in progress for some time at Chancery Place, yesterday, water began to fall from the glass roof of the building into the two courtrooms.
Judge Connolly was hearing a claim for malicious damage to a thatched cottage by fire when the water began to drip quite close to the bench. It increased until it became a regular flow of water.
Water also began to fall in Judge Shannon’s Court, also close to the bench.
The business in both Courts proceeded without interruption.
Counsel in the malicious damage case said “There will be no fire in Court today at any rate.
Board of Works officials made an examination of the flat roof over the Court rooms, where a great deal of water was found to have collected, due, it was stated, to burst pipes following the thaw and the overflow of a tank.”
The 2,000-gallon tank overflowed again in 1969 after an outlet pipe became choked shortly before Court was due to sit at 11 a.m., causing water to cascade down from the ceiling. According to the Evening Herald
“The cases – criminal appeals – which were to go on before Judge Conroy in Court No 7 were adjourned for only a short period of time. When a brief hearing in the next-door Court No 8, before Judge McGivern, concluded, Judge Conroy, and those involved in the appeal cases, moved in.
Said Mr Philip Crowe, Judge Conroy’s crier ‘I looked into No 7 at 10 a.m., and everything was in order, but a half-an-hour later, water was dripping down from the ceiling.
Workmen later rectified the fault.”
Justice must be done though the heavens fall!
Image Credits: Evening Herald, 18 March 1969
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