Witness to legal history
Tuesday November 24 2009
ONE of the country's historical courthouses could be transformed into a legal museum.
Officials want to open up Dublin's Green Street Courthouse -- where Robert Emmet delivered a courageous and powerful speech the day before his execution .
The building is used as the Special Criminal Court for non-jury trials, but with these trials being moved to the new Criminal Courts of Justice the building will be used for civil business, with plans to turn it into a legal museum "when economic circumstances improve", the Courts Service said.
