Challenging times as normal life in courts overturned Updated / Sunday, 3 Jan 2021 07:19 Legal Affairs Correspondent It took months to suppress the urge to stand up every time Dr Tony Holohan and his fellow NPHET doctors entered and left the large briefing room in the Department of Health. As cases of Covid-19 rose and the normal business of life, including legal proceedings, was suspended, I was assigned to join the team of reporters covering the unfolding crisis. But 14 years of having to stand whenever a judge entered or left a court room proved to be a hard habit to break. When I think back on life before the pandemic took hold, the courts and the legal world formed a large part of it.