JUDGE WARNS PRESS HE WILL SUE IF ANY MORE “SNIDE REMARKS” ARE PUBLISHED

A DISTRICT COURT judge has warned what he described as the “Dublin media” that he will “sue the pants off them” if they publish any more “snide remarks” about him.
Speaking during a bail application at Clones District Court on Friday, Judge Sean MacBride said he was the “best qualified judge in the country” when he was appointed, and had been the only district judge in Ireland with an LLM (Master of Laws) degree at the time.
Referring to “snide remarks that were made about me by certain persons in the Dublin media”, the outspoken judge said newspapers would have to be “very careful” about what they published in the future.
Having reminded the court of his legal qualifications, including the fact that he was the youngest third-level lecturer in Ireland while lecturing at University College Dublin when he was 23 years old, and having also referred to his achievements in athletics, in which he had represented Ireland, Judge MacBride said he wanted to remind the Dublin press that …