The Gazette 1996

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1996

GAZETTE

Prize Bond Winners 1995

depression and sometimes even suicide.

Ernest J. Margetson Matheson Ormsby Prentice 3 Burlington Road Dublin 4 £250 - Third Prize: Denis McDowell John J. McDowell & Company 36 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin 2 P. Laurence Murphy

£ 1 , 0 0 0 - F i r st Prize: James O'Dwyer Arthur Cox 41-45 St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2 Thomas A. Menton O'Keeffe & Lynch 30 Molesworth Street Dublin 2 Nicholas P.J. Shee John Shee & Company 28 Parnell Street Clonmel Co Tipperary £500 - Second Prize: Garrett P. Lombard Lombard & Cullen Market Square Gorey Co Wexford William J. McGuire McKeever Rowan 34 Fitzwilliam Square Dublin 2 John V. Kelly John V. Kelly & Company Church Street Cavan

Repatriation of Irish prisoners under the provisions of the Transfer Convention will undoubtedly promote and encourage rehabilitation of offenders and alleviate the burden of financial and physical hardship and stress borne by their families here. Though the Minister for Justice preserves her discretion in the Act to grant or refuse an application or her consent to an application, as the case may be, there is a commitment to transparency and equity in the operation of the Convention and a decision to refuse her consent must be notified in writing to the affected party. Subject to limitations referred to above, the Minister must specify grounds for any refusal. Section I 1 of the Act requires the Minister to make a report to each House of the Oireachtas on the operation of the Act during the preceding year. The Report must be furnished within four months after the end of each year from 31 December. 1995. The Report must include information in relation to each implication made during the year under the Act. The ratification of the Transfer Convention should go some way towards alleviating the growing sense of despair and isolation so keenly fell by this often forgotten constituency ot the Irish Diaspora. Maire R. Whelan, B.L., holds a Masters Degree from University of London, King's College. She is a practising Barrister. SERVICES Providing International Offshore Trusts. Companies and Adminislralion Services since 1985. Multilingual sUilI-Specialist Spanish connections Professionalism and confidentiality assured. Huropa Trust Company Limited Bourne Concourse. Peel Street. Ramsey. Isle of Man IM8 IJ J Tel: 00 44 1624 814555 Fax: 00 44 1624 816299 Contact Paul M Rrennock FCIS. F Inst I) John M Watterson Solicitor OFFSHORE

"Inishfree" 9 Deerpark Castleknock Road Dublin 15 Christopher Beatty Tig-Mo-Croi Glenamuck Road Carrickmines Dublin 18 John G. Lanigan John Lanigan & Nolan Abbey Bridge Dean Street Kilkenny

Patrick McEntee Tullyherim House

Tullyherim Monaghan MEETING WITH SOLICITOR TDs

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Left to right: Alan Shutter, TD (Dublin South); The President of the Law Society, Andrew F. Smyth; Charles Flanagan, TD (Laois-Offaly) and Jim O'Keeffe, TD (Cork South-West) pictured prior to a meeting between certain solicitor TDs and members of the Law Society Parliamentary and Law Reform Committee at Blackhall Place on 1 February, 1996.

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