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Judge Murphy will commence her new role in September.
A new judge has been assigned to be the District judge in Mayo.
Judge Sandra Murphy has been assigned to replace Fiona Lydon who departed her role in order to take up a position in District Seven in her native Galway.
Judge Murphy is a native of Ballinrobe and is the daughter of the former Mayo County Registrar Patsy Murphy. The new District Court judge is also married to well-known Kiltimagh solicitor Charlie Gilmartin.
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The Ballinrobe native had been working in District Two which is under the areas of South Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim since her appointment in 2021.
It is understood that Judge Murphy will take up her new assignment in September in order to deal with matters already before her in District Two.
Prior to becoming a district court judge in October 2020, she worked as a solicitor at Gilmartin & Murphy Solicitors in Kiltimagh. Judge Murphy had been serving as a ‘mobile judge’ prior to her appointment to District Two.
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