The Circuit Court sits during four law terms each year: Hilary, Easter, Trinity, and Michaelmas. The information below sets out the confirmed sittings for each county in the South Eastern Circuit — covering Carlow, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Waterford, and Wexford — for 2025.
Carlow Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Civil sittings
- 14 January (1 week)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 21 October (1 week)
- 2 December (1 week)
Criminal sittings
- 18 February (3 weeks)
- 20 May (2 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 11 November (3 weeks)
Family sittings
- 4 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 4 November (1 week)
- 2 December (1 week)
District Court appeal sittings
- 18 March (2 weeks)
- 7 October (2 weeks)
Kilkenny Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Civil sittings
- 28 January (1 week)
- 4 February (1 week)
- 8 April (1 week)
- 15 July (1 week)
- 14 October (1 week)
- 16 December (1 week)
Criminal sittings
- 4 March (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 18 November (5 weeks)
Family sittings
- 14 January (2 weeks)
- 13 May (2 weeks)
- 1 July (2 weeks)
- 11 November (2 weeks)
District Court appeal sittings
- 28 January (1 week)
- 27 May (1 week)
- 1 July (1 week)
- 28 October (1 week)
Tipperary Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Clonmel sittings
Civil
- 21 January (2 weeks)
- 13 May (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
Family
- 25 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 21 October (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 4 March (6 weeks)
- 20 May (3 weeks)
- 15 July (3 weeks)
- 25 November (4 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 18 February (1 week)
- 4 November (2 weeks)
Nenagh sittings
Civil
- 18 February (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 25 November (1 week)
Family
- 4 March (1 week)
- 27 May (1 week)
- 22 July (1 week)
- 9 December (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 18 June (3 weeks)
- 7 October (4 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 25 February (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
Thurles sittings
- 4 February (1 week)
- 15 July (1 week)
- 11 November (1 week)
Tipperary town (sitting at Clonmel)
- 11 February (1 week)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 7 October (1 week)
Waterford Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Dungarvan sittings
- 8 April (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 29 July (3 days)
- 16 December (1 week)
Waterford sittings
Civil
- 14 January (2 weeks)
- 25 March (2 weeks)
- 20 May (1 week)
- 1 July (1 week)
- 28 October (2 weeks)
Criminal
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 11 March (5 weeks)
- 29 April (3 weeks)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (2 weeks)
- 7 October (5 weeks)
- 2 December (3 weeks)
Family
- 11 February (2 weeks)
- 6 May (1 week)
- 8 July (2 weeks)
- 7 October (1 week)
- 25 November (2 weeks)
District Court appeals
- 18 February (1 week)
- 3 June (3 days)
- 22 July (1 week)
- 11 November (1 week)
Wexford Circuit Court sittings – 2025
Law terms: Hilary: 13 January – 11 April; Easter: 28 April – 5 June; Trinity: 18 June – 31 July; Michaelmas: 6 October – 19 December.
Civil sittings
- 11 February (2 weeks)
- 1 April (2 weeks)
- 20 May (1 week)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (1 week)
- 14 October (2 weeks)
Criminal sittings
- 14 January (5 weeks)
- 4 March (5 weeks)
- 13 May (4 weeks)
- 18 June (3 days)
- 24 June (2 weeks)
- 7 October (5 weeks)
- 25 November (3 weeks)
Family sittings
- 11 March (2 weeks)
- 27 May (2 weeks)
- 22 July (2 weeks)
- 4 November (2 weeks)
- 9 December (1 week)
District Court appeal sittings
- 25 February (1 week)
- 29 April (1 week)
- 8 July (1 week)
- 18 November (1 week)
