Colm Patrick Condon was an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from 1965 to 1973.
12 Facts About Colm Condon
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Colm Condon was born in Ashbourne, County Meath, the third child of Thomas Condon, an accountant and Irish Republican Army activist, who had taken part in the 1916 Easter Rising.
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Colm Condon's mother was Margaret McGuire, a teacher in Ashbourne.
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Thomas Colm Condon was briefly a Senator representing Fianna Fail as well as having been a member of Meath County Council.
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Colm Condon was educated at Terenure College in Dublin and subsequently at University College Dublin.
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Colm Condon practised cases including those involving defamation and personal injury.
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Colm Condon was called to the Bar in 1944, and became a senior counsel in 1959.
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Colm Condon was appointed as Attorney General of Ireland, serving under Taoiseach Sean Lemass.
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Colm Condon remained in office under Lemass's successor, Jack Lynch.
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Colm Condon argued on behalf of the State during the 1970 Arms Trial which involved future Taoiseach Charles Haughey.
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In 1997, Colm Condon appeared before the Moriarty Tribunal in which he sided with Haughey challenging the powers of the tribunal.
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Colm Condon had two sons and two daughters by his first marriage.