Courtroom sketch: Kelly shows both wit and wrath to INM in his ruling

The president of the High Court brushed aside all of INM’s objections in a devastating judgment, writes Barry J Whyte

Independent House on Talbot Street in Dublin 1: inspectors were given the go-ahead last Tuesday to go in Pic: Rollingnews

‘Silence, please! All rise.” At two o’clock on an otherwise quiet Tuesday afternoon, Mr Justice Peter Kelly walked into court 10 of the High Court and took his seat, killing off the buzz of conversation among the 40 or attendees.

He was, he later joked, supposed to be on his holidays. But before that, there was the matter of his ruling on the application by the Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement ...