Paul Gallagher (barrister)
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Paul Gallagher SC |
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| 29th Attorney General of Ireland | |
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In office 14 June 2007 – 9 March 2011 |
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| Taoiseach | |
| Preceded by | Rory Brady |
| Succeeded by | Máire Whelan |
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| Born |
20 March 1955 Tralee, Kerry, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Political party | Fianna Fáil |
| Spouse(s) | Blathna Ruane (m. 1987) |
| Children | 3 |
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Paul Gallagher SC (born 20 March 1955) is an Irish barrister who served as the Attorney General of Ireland from 2007 to 2011.
He attended the Tralee Christian Brothers national school before going to Castleknock College, run by the Vincentians for his secondary education. Gallagher studied two degrees in UCD, a BCL and a B.A. in history and economics, completing his BL in the King's Inns at the same time. He then did an LLM in Cambridge, a few years before his future Government colleague, Brian Lenihan did a law degree there.
Gallagher returned to Ireland to be called to the Bar in 1979. He was called on the same day as his friend and predecessor as Attorney General, Rory Brady. He became a senior counsel in 1991, and a Bencher of the King’s Inns in 2005. He was vice-chairman of the Bar Council from 1995 to 1996, and served as chairman of its European law sub-committee.
Before his appointment as Attorney General he had a practice that ranged from European to defamation law, including commercial and chancery. Some of the biggest names in Irish business were among his clients. They included the Fitzwilton Group in its challenge to the Mahon tribunal; PJ Carroll in a challenge to tobacco legislation; the VHI in its row with Bupa over risk-equalisation; Meath County Council in the challenge to the M3 motorway route through the Skryne valley; and the State in its opposition to the attempt by Katherine Zappone and Ann Louise Gilligan to have their Canadian marriage recognised.
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