Nice job on collating all the various text and WhatApp messages here by Rosanna Cooney.
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Sounds like McIlroy has no idea what he did that night at all.
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Lol.
Another jury member has cried off due to illness. Might be fit for tomorrow. they have agreed to sit on Saturday morning to help make up for lost time.
Being on a jury and refusing to give the baying mob what they demand is obviously a huge pressures and us leading to jurors having mental break downs
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No reports from today.
How many jurors can you lose before a case collapses?
Not sure, but when I played FIFA on the PlayStation in college you needed 4 sendings off to get a game abandoned.
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Where do the jury members go when they’re deciding on a verdict in a high profile trial such as this?
A hotel? Like, say, Jury’s?
I hope, for the complainant’s sake, that enough jury members continue for there not to be a mistrial. It would add insult to in-jury for her.
It’s a shame you have not grown up still
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He’d Pull the Power now
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A room in the courthouse.
If you are a jury member and you need to go to the bathroom you have to ask permission - an bhfuil cead agam dul go dti on leithreas style (maybe not in Belfast) - and court is adjourned while you go.
Nobody is hydrated on juries.
Can jury members chat to each other as the case progresses?
Or is it a case of them saying ‘well what did you think of that lads’ when they are sent to deliberate?
Yeah can chat away but should not discuss the case until asked to deliberate. It’s a room full of random people so good chance you will like and dislike your fellow jurors. That could influence your decision…
This is sort of interesting. They were sequestered which doesn’t happen here except sometimes for deliberations
I wonder do the jury go for pints together on Fridays? You can imagine after the verdict is eventually read out. It’ll be like the last day of school. “Come on everyone, we’re goin’ on the lash - Cutter’s then Ollie’s!”
There have to be plenty of tales of jury romances.
What about 10 year reunions and such in cases where everybody on the jury got on famously?
Romance in the jury box
Wed, Mar 3, 1999, 00:00
While the history of the Irish jury service is singularly lacking as a medium of any romantic tales, the Ring College inoculation case, which took twelve days at hearing recently in the High Court, recalls at least one cause celebre which was productive of quite a spot of romance in the jury box.
That particular case took fifteen days at hearing, and the jury spent many hours anxiously deliberating on what their findings would be; for there was a very great deal of human happiness, not to mention money, at stake. At the conclusion of the case one of the senior jury men, who had been struck by the shrewdness and clear-headed judgment of a very young colleague, invited him to celebrate the end of their ordeal by having dinner at his house.
The young man gladly accepted, and there and then began a friendship between the two men which was sealed by nothing less than the marriage of the young jury man to his friend’s daughter two years afterwards.
That happened almost thirty years ago, and it is only two years since the eldest son of the marriage became a barrister!
The Irish Times, March 3rd, 1939.
But you forfeit 3-0, no?
Paddy Jackson taking the stand, strap in lads