Members told it remains open to the DPP to initiate proceedings for contempt of court
The Central Criminal Court in Dublin
A High Court judge has discharged the jury in a Carlow rape trial after it emerged that some jurors had carried out their own research on the internet about the case.
Mr Justice Mícheál O’Higgins told the jury of four men and eight women that it was “beyond regrettable” that some jurors had ignored his explicit instructions given to the jury not to carry out private research.