The Gazette 1972

Admission Ceremony -President's Speech The President of the Society, Mr. O'Donovan, in pre- senting parchments to newly-admitted solicitors on 1st June 1972 in the Library of Solicitors Buildings, said : This is a very great occasion for all concerned both for those who have been recently qualified and for their parents and friends and on behalf of the Council of the Law Society and on my own behalf as President I bid you a very warm welcome to this ceremony. There are no less than forty-one students to be admitted to practice this afternoon and I would like to congratulate each one of you on your entry into this honourable profession. Despite adverse criticism that may some- times be levelled against it this profession ranks high in public esteem because it is now recognised that our profession has been and will continue to be the only bulwark between the ordinary citizen and the encroach- ment on that citizen's rights and liberties by both an acquisitive State and still more acquisitive public authorities. In my address to the Law Society a fortnight ago I said that the first priority of our Society as a result of our recent decision to enter the European Economic Community was to establish without delay the effect that membership of that Community would have on our own domestic laws and that we had a duty to ensure that on January 1st next we were equipped to deal with any problem that might be posed to us by a client involving community laws or regulations. The Society has already acquired the Common Market Law Reports 1963-71, the Common Market Law Review covering the same period and other E.E.C. publications and I suggest that in the coming months you might devote some few hours of your time to browsing among these volumes and to getting to know something about these community laws and regulations. Don't have any doubt about i t: these community laws and regulations can and will penetrate into our national system and it is abundantly clear to me that Community law will have to become part and parcel of the stock and trade of all lawyers practising within the Community. I fore- see the day in the not too distant future when many of you here will be found practising in France, Germany and Italy while your counterparts in those countries will be practising here. For that reason may I sug- gest that if you already have not got fluent French, German and Italian at your command then you take steps at once to make yourself fluent in one of these languages before your ability to learn easily becomes atrophied by age.

Presentation of Parchments Parchments were then delivered to :

Geraldine Bonner, B.C.L., N.U.I., Moville, Co. Donegal; Thomas J. Brooks, Baldwin St., Mitchelstown, Co. Cork; Margaret Burke-Staunton, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo; John P. Carty, B.C.L., N.U.I., 59 Whitworth Road, Dublin 9; Joseph G. M. Chambers, Ennistymon, Co. Clare; Michael Collier, B.C.L., LL.B., N.U.I., 3 St. Catherine's Terrace, Sutton, Co. Dublin; Brendan Comiskey, B.C.L., 3 The Terrace, Tubbercurry, Co. Sligo; Anthony J. Connolly, B.A., N.U.I., 38 Glen Abbey Rd., Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin; Carolyn M. Cruise, B.C.L., N.U.I., Dalgan, Howth Road, Sutton, Co. Dublin; Helen J. Cullen, 5 Castlepark Road, Glas- tule, Co. Dublin; Desmond G. Deeney, Sharon, North Circular Road, Limerick; Austin Dunne, B.A., 203 Woodfarm Acres, Palmerstown, Co. Dublin; Frederick A. C. Jackson, M.A., Rockville House, Glenamuck Rd., Kilternan, Co. Dublin; Brian O'Brien Kenney, B.C.L., 126 Landscape Park, Churchtown, Dublin 14. Robert M. D. Lee, "Ardrivale", Kilmallock, Co. Limerick; Liam T. Lysaght, B.C.L., "Cherryville", Monasterevin, Co. Kildare; Noel G. Maher, Milltown House, Goolds Cross, Tipperary; Patrick T. Moran, Curradrish, Castlebar, Co. Mayo; Dermot H. Morris, B.A., 3 Carrickbrack Lawn, Sutton, Co. Dublin; John Morrissey, B.C.L., 94 Stillorgan Grove, Blackrock, Co. Dublin; John N. Murphy, B.C.L., N.U.I., 77 Merrion Square, Dublin 2; Jacqueline Murray, 191 Woodview Park, Limerick; Roderick F. McCarthy, 11 St. Thomas' Mead, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin; Paul T. P. McCor- mack, 3 Bushy Park Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6; Sean E. McDonnell, 47 Upper Cross Road, Rialto, Dublin 8; Aidan McNulty, B.C.L., N.U.I., Ballery Road, Long- ford; Thomas D. O'Meara, B.C.L., N.U.I., Patrick St., Cork; Michael Owens, B.C.L., N.U.I., Dunlavin, Co. Wicklow. James D. Pierse, B.A., 33 Villiers Road, Rathgar, Dublin 6; Stanhope P. Polden, 2 Ferrard Road, Tere- nure, Dublin 6; Kieran A. C. Pyne, 2 Cuala Grove, Bray, Co. Wicklow; Justin Sadleir, B.C.L., LL.B., N.U.I., 15 Beechmount Drive, Clonskea, Dublin 14; Laurence K. Shields, B.C.L., 9 Woodbine Road, Black- rock, Co. Dublin (Special Certificate); Leonard F. Silke, B.A., B.Comm., N.U.I., William Street West, Galway; David A. Tarrant, B.C.L., St. Mary's Terrace, Arklow, Co. Wicklow; Reginald I. V. Timon, B.C.L., N.U.I., Dun Riada, Athlone, Co. Westmeath; Brian Wallace, B.C.L., N.U.I., 123 Tyrconnel Road, Inchicore, Dublin 8; David A. Walsh, "Imaal", St. Thomas Road, Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin; Francis O. Ward, B.C.L., N.U.I., 144 Stillorgan Road, Co. Dublin; Alan Woods, B.A.' 84 Malahide Road, Dublin 3; George C. Wright, 17 Market Street, Monaghan.

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