Two solicitors nominated for appointment as District Court judges

Two solicitors nominated for appointment as District Court judges

Two solicitors have been nominated for appointment as ordinary judges of the District Court.

Ministers agreed at a meeting this week to nominate Máire Conneely and Brendan O’Reilly for the vacancies arising from the retirements of Judge Patrick Durcan and Judge Terence J. W. Finn.

Ms Conneely is a graduate of NUI Galway (NUIG) and qualified as a solicitor in 2001.

Mr O’Reilly is a graduate of University College Galway (now NUIG) and University College Dublin (UCD). He qualified as a solicitor in 1992 and as a solicitor in Northern Ireland in 1994.

The government has taken the necessary steps to formally advise President Higgins of the nominations in accordance with constitutional practice.

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