Less than €13,000 paid into poor box in Dundalk court last year

Charities and individuals received just €12,823 from the poor box in Dundalk courthouse last year.

That is despite the fact that there was over €2m paid nationally, according to figures from the Courts Service.

There were just 24 individual donations to the Dundalk court’s poor box.

This compared with a whopping €883,527 paid into the poor box in Tralee.

The biggest beneficiary nationally last year was St Vincent de Paul, which received €129,350 from the court poor box.