{"id":376009,"date":"2026-04-01T06:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376009\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T06:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T06:47:09","slug":"absolutely-scandalous-judge-decries-attempt-by-man-and-up-to-30-supporters-to-invade-high-court-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/376009\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Absolutely scandalous\u2019 \u2013 judge decries attempt by man and up to 30 supporters to \u2018invade\u2019 High Court office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Patrick McGreal (45) has brought more than 20 High Court actions since 2023\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Patrick McGreal has previously attempted the citizen's arrest of a judge and a solicitor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/aa139463-3b1c-472f-9d64-702f735bdaa8.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Patrick McGreal has previously attempted the citizen&#8217;s arrest of a judge and a solicitor<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A man apparently offering legal advice despite not being qualified to do so has attempted to intimidate and harass court officials, solicitors and members of the judiciary, a senior judge has said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Patrick McGreal (45) seemed to be \u201cengaged in a wholly unjustified crusade against the legal system and its personnel\u201d or else was seeking attention for himself and his political views, High Court judge Mr Justice Brian Cregan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patrick McGreal (45) has brought more than 20 High Court actions since 2023 Patrick McGreal has previously attempted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,9657],"class_list":{"0":"post-376009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-shane-phelan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}