Name Nial Fennelly Profession Judge, Barrister | Nationality Irish Role Judge | |
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Born 3 May 1942 (age 82) ( 1942-05-03 ) Education Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin, Honorable Society of Kings Inns | ||
School of Law Annual Distinguished Lecture 2014
Nial Fennelly (born 3 May 1942) served as a judge of the Supreme Court of Ireland from 2000 to 2014 and was an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice from 1995 to 2000. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College, took a degree in economics at University College Dublin and completed his Bar studies at King's Inns. He was a Barrister-at-Law from 1964 to 1995; when he was appointed as a senior counsel, he based himself full-time in Dublin, but when a junior barrister, he worked both there and on the South Eastern circuit. Fennelly was Chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland shortly before his appointment as Advocate General. Fennelly is president of the Irish Society for European Law.
Fennelly is the sole member of the "Commission of Investigation (Certain Matters relative to An Garda Síochána and other persons)", commonly called the Fennelly Commission, a commission of investigation established in April 2014 by the current government of Ireland to investigate several controversies involving the Garda Síochána.
