A knife in a plastic bag was found stashed inside a courtroom while another person tried to smuggle a replica handgun into the criminal courts.
In another bizarre case, a member of the public tried to bring a “murder weapon” through a security screen saying they planned to hand it to gardaí as evidence.
A log of Courts Service incidents and accidents for 2024 also disclosed how another person tried to bring a “large wrench tool” through a scanner.
When they were told it would have to be left at the entrance gate, the person became “verbally abusive” and gardaí had to be called.
A note of the incident said: “Upon receiving the returned item, the [person] threatened to assault [security] operative with [it].
“A garda sergeant who was leaving the building overheard the threat and removed the [person] from the building.”
In April, “a small knife in a rigid plastic bag” was discovered in the Criminal Courts of Justice with an investigation taking place.
It was later said it could not be determined with any certainty who had brought the weapon into the building.
The log of incidents detailed the discovery last March of an Airsoft pistol inside a backpack from a person trying to get into the courts.
The replica weapon was confiscated with gardaí called and the owner later told the item would not be returned to them.
In another case last summer, the legal representative of a high security prisoner at Portlaoise was attacked by their own client.
The two of them were discussing the case when the lawyer “stumbled out of the holding cell having been physically assaulted.”