Colm Condon
15th Attorney General of Ireland
In office
16 March 1965  14 March 1973
TaoiseachSeán Lemass
Jack Lynch
Preceded byAindrias Ó Caoimh
Succeeded byDeclan Costello
Personal details
Born
Colm Patrick Condon

(1921-07-16)16 July 1921
Ashbourne, County Meath, Ireland
Died9 August 2008(2008-08-09) (aged 87)
Sandymount, Dublin, Ireland
Political partyFianna Fáil
SpouseStephanie Power
Children4
EducationTerenure College
Alma materUniversity College Dublin

Colm Patrick Condon (16 July 1921 – 9 August 2008) was an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from 1965 to 1973.

Condon served in office as Attorney General of Ireland during the beginning of the Troubles in Northern Ireland in the late 1960s.

He was born in Ashbourne, County Meath, the third child of Thomas Condon (senator), an accountant and Irish Republican Army (IRA) activist, who had taken part in the 1916 Easter Rising.[1] His mother was Margaret McGuire, a teacher in Ashbourne. Thomas Condon was also briefly a Senator representing the Fianna Fáil party as well as having been a member of Meath County Council.[2]

Condon was educated at Terenure College in Dublin and subsequently at University College Dublin. He practised cases including those involving defamation and personal injury.

Condon was called to the Bar in 1944, and became a senior counsel in 1959. He was appointed as Attorney General of Ireland, serving under Taoiseach Seán Lemass. He remained in office under Lemass's successor, Jack Lynch. He argued on behalf of the State during the 1970 Arms Trial which involved future Taoiseach Charles Haughey.

In 1972, he helped draft legislation that set up the Special Criminal Court.

In 1997, Condon appeared before the Moriarty Tribunal in which he sided with Haughey challenging the powers of the tribunal.

Condon was married twice. He had two sons Colm and Eoin, and two daughters, Stephanie and Carolyn by his first marriage.[3]

References

  1. The Independent, 28 August 2008 (retrieved on 20 October 2008)
  2. TimesOnline, 28 August 2008 (retrieved 20 October 2008)
  3. Meath Chronicle, 27 August 2008 (retrieved on 20 October 2008)
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