A judge was gifted a box of chocolates by a woman who objected to having her brain tumour removed.
Judge overrule woman's tumour surgery
Mr Justice Peter Kelly, President of the High Court, ordered surgery to remove a female's abnormal cell without her consent because she refused to undergo the medical operation.
According to the Irish Times, a CT scan showed the woman was suffering from the malignancy, which caused her to suffer from mental health symptoms.
However, after she refused to go under the knife, court orders were sought and granted in November 2016.
The woman, who is in her early fifties and making a full recovery, presented the sweet treats to the judge as a token of thanks and to apologise ''for the confusion'' she felt she had caused for not wanting to go ahead with the surgery.
Mr Justice Kelly replied: ''There's no need to apologise because it was the tumour that caused your thinking to be distorted.''
He thanked her for the chocolates, which he claimed was the first gift he'd received in 20 years, and said it was a ''red letter day'' for him.
Judges are unable to accept gifts so he asked for the chocolates to be donated to the nurses working at St Francis' Hospice in Dublin.