Man tries to effect "citizen's arrest" on DPP solicitor

A lay litigant with addresses in County Mayo attempted to effect a citizen's arrest on a solicitor from the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions during proceedings in the Court of Appeal on Friday. Stephen Manning, a candidate in the 2016 general election, had previously sought to arrest a DPP solicitor and barrister during judicial review proceedings in the High Court. Mr Manning is now appealing certain findings from those High Court proceedings. During case management on Friday, he disputed the title of his appeal and made various allegations of fraud. When asked to sit down by the President of the Court of Appeal, Mr Justice George Birmingham, Mr Manning refused. Following the lunch adjournment, he approached the DPP solicitor and placed his hand on the solicitor's shoulder, requesting he accompany him to a garda station. Members of An Garda Síochána present declined to take anyone into custody.