An associate of ground rent speculator Noel O’Gara (65 ) was removed from court this week (July 26 ) after he accused a judge of running a “kangaroo court” and having “no jurisdiction”.
“There has been a vendetta against this man,” shouted Patrick Cullinane (56 ), an anti-Establishment activist from the UK, who was in court to assist the Ballinahown-based businessman as he attempted to appeal the severity of a five-year driving ban and €1,500 fine in the Circuit Court.
“Don’t lay a hand on me or I’ll sue you. You’re committing a crime,” Cullinane shouted at the two gardaí who removed him from the court on the instructions of Judge Anthony Kennedy.
“I can’t get justice in Irish courts,” said O’Gara, who submitted a 13-page manifesto to the court to demand his case be referred to the European Court of Justice.
In it, Cullinane and O’Gara demand the removal of Judge Kennedy who “has already perverted the course of justice against Noel O’Gara” because he previously fined him for illegally auditing a number of companies in February 2009.
This submission went on to attack the District Court Judge Seamus Hughes who disqualified the landlord of Dartmouth Square on June 8 for failing to stay at, or report an accident he was responsible for on August 8, 2010.
“Judge Seamus Hughes operated a kangaroo court to frame-up Noel O’Gara and do him serious harm...” and that he “accepted perjured evidence from the DPP and used it against Noel O’Gara”.
“There is a massive conspiracy against Noel O’Gara by the employees of the Irish member State to do him serious harm [and he] is enslaved by gangsters operating kangaroo courts on behalf of the Irish State,” the manifesto went on.
On June 8 Judge Hughes banned O’Gara for four years, but offered him an opportunity to mitigate this “down to a zero disqualification”.
However, O’Gara had his ban extended by an extra year when he turned to Judge Hughes and declared: “If you want to put me off the road for four years, you’re making a big mistake”.
After the eventual ejection of Cullinane from the court on Wednesday, a clearly exasperated Judge Kennedy refused to refer the case to the European Court of Justice or offer O’Gara the platform of a jury for a simple appeal against the severity of his ban, and adjourned a ruling on the case until the next sitting of the Circuit Court in Athlone in the first week in December.
