On 6th December, 2019 at 8:30 am, the lecturers gave us instruction and send us to different locations. We had to make a news report in order to submit before the deadline. I was sent to the criminal justice court, Phoenix Park where I was told to cover a news report on a sentence case. When I arrived there, it was holding many other cases before the hearing of the case I need to write on. Around 11:40 pm, the case opened for hearing. It was my first-time ever going to the court for a hearing. I was thrilled to see the procedure towards a hearing .
The Juries of the court first have to take an oath before opening the case for hearing. Unfortunately, I faced a challenge along the way. The judge decides hold the case till Monday at 11:30 am. I was not alone to cover this case, I shortly join my colleague who was to cover the same case. I asked my friend call our lecturer and discuss what will be the next step. He suggested to go to the museum which held a photography exhibition.
We rush to the location because it was almost pass our deadline to submit the news to our lecturer. Unfortunately, we got lost for three hours and I panicked. But, I told myself that worrying doesn’t help so we again tried to go back to the right direction and we made it finally . However, time was running out and we had two and half hours left in our hands. So, I took pictures of the exhibition and some details about it. Since it was one way towards city Centre, we had to walk for 45 minutes to catch a bus to the college. I finished my report within the nick of time.
In the end, I got the experience of the court hearings and struggle to keep up with the time to cover a story.