Ronan Keane

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Terry Keane
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Ronan Keane
9th Chief Justice of Ireland
In office
1 June 2000 –23 July 2004
Relations Diarmuid Gavin (son-in-law)
Children3
Education Blackrock College
Alma mater

Ronan Colman Keane (born 20 July 1932 [1] ) is a retired Irish judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004, a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004 and a Judge of the High Court from 1979 to 1996. [2]

Keane was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and later graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1953, with a BA in Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1954 [2] and became a Senior Counsel in 1970. [2] He was appointed as a High Court judge in July 1979. [2] He was head of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Stardust fire in 1981, [2] and chairman of the Law Reform Commission from 1987 to 1992. [2] He has published many legal texts and papers and participated in Council of Europe programmes developing legal systems in Post-Communist Europe. [2] He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1996, [2] becoming Chief Justice in 2000. Chief Justice Keane received an Honorary Doctorate from UCD in 2001, [3] and has been an adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin since his retirement.

In 1962, Keane married Therese O'Donnell, who, as Terry Keane, became a fashion journalist and later a social diarist. [4] They had three children together, and later became close to Terry's daughter, who had been adopted. [4] [ dead link ‍] The couple separated in the 1980s but remained amicable. [4] Their son Tim died suddenly in 2004. [5] In 1999, Terry revealed on The Late Late Show her affair beginning in 1972 with sometime Taoiseach Charles Haughey. [4] Ronan and Terry's daughter Justine Keane is married to Diarmuid Gavin, the Irish garden designer and television personality.

Keane was for some years the Independent Chairman of the Appeals Board of the Turf Club of Ireland. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "Keane, Ronan, (born 20 July 1932), Chief Justice of Ireland, 2000–04". Who's Who. 1 December 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U22683.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Fellows and Scholars 2007: Ronan Keane (Hon. Mr Justice)". Trinity College Dublin. 2007. Archived from the original on 27 November 2008. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  3. ↑ "UCD News" (PDF). UCD. Autumn–Winter 2001. p. 12. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  4. 1 2 3 4 "Diarist who later regretted her TV revelation of affair". The Irish Times . 7 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  5. ↑ Mallon, Charles; Jim Cusack (11 July 2004). "Son of Chief Justice and Terry Keane found dead in flat". Sunday Independent . Archived from the original on 20 May 2011. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  6. ↑ Rules of racing and Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Rules (PDF) (Amendments & alternations up to and including 27 March 2008 ed.). Curragh, County Kildare: Irish Turf Club and Irish National Hunt Steeplechase Committee. p. 5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 November 2007. Retrieved 3 August 2008.

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