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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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