There is more than a tinge of irony to Ciaran MacLochlainn’s ongoing crusade to protect the courthouses of his native Donegal where he served as the state solicitor for more than 30 years of his half century in the legal profession.  His grandfather was a member of the Irish Republican Army during the War of Independence when courthouses in Buncrana and Carndonagh were burned down in a wave of attacks on British infrastructure.  In another ironic twist, MacLochlainn told The Currency, his grandfather went on to become the courthouse caretaker after Buncrana was rebuilt by the newly formed Irish government.…

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