Irish Judge calls for foreigners to pay for interpreters</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Irish Judge calls for foreigners to pay for interpreters"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Irish,Judge,calls,for,foreigners,to,pay,for,interpreters"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">16-05-2005</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Irish Judge calls for foreigners to pay for interpreters</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Dublin, Eire (The Irish Times): The National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI) last night expressed concern at remarks from a district judge that foreign defendants should pay for their own interpreter services. Judge John Neilan yesterday questioned the use of taxpayers' money to provide interpreters for defendants from what he called the Eastern bloc. <br>Speaking in Mullingar District Court, Judge Neilan said foreigners earning wages could afford the translation services themselves. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0514/2857349521HM1JUDGE.html " target="blank">www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2005/0514/2857349521HM1JUDGE.html </a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show