Aisling Meehan
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212 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Jul
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Yeah, I suppose I specialise in agricultural law.
I don't do criminal law.
But equally, I think it's important to highlight, like if I'm referring someone or someone needs representation in the district court, I'm struggling to find a practitioner that will actually take that case on.
There's just not enough money in it.
Either you're in it full time and you're in court all day and then you're trying to catch up in the evening or you're not in it.
So a lot of solicitors now are specialising and they're specialising in the most lucrative work.
And the big issue here is like access to justice and that they just will not be solicitors there to represent them.
I think just Barry Ward, there was a quote from him on that page one.
He's a Fianna Gael TD in senior counsel and he compared O'Callaghan's handling of the dispute to President Trump's war in Iran.
He's gone into this like Trump into Iran with no exit strategy at all, Ward said.
Ouch.
It's down 90% in terms of the processing of the certificates for the legal aid.
The judges have not acknowledged that themselves.
The courts, the judiciary have not acknowledged that themselves.
It's not necessarily solicitors that are holding up these cases.
It's the system that can hold up the cases itself.
So and that's, you know, there's there's legal aid there for criminal is the is the hardest one, because, you know, you could end up in jail if you don't have, you know, depending on the outcome is severe.
Like we can't forget about there's also legal aid there for civil cases and also family law.
So there's there could be an upheaval here on the family law side and the civil side as well.
The sense that I got from it is that they're not in a bad place.
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