Ronan Colman Keane was born on 20 July 1932 and is a retired Irish judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004, a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004 and a Judge of the High Court from 1979 to 1996.
10 Facts About Ronan Keane
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Ronan Keane was called to the Bar in 1954 and became a Senior Counsel in 1970.
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Ronan Keane was appointed as a High Court judge in July 1979.
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Ronan Keane was head of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Stardust fire in 1981, and chairman of the Law Reform Commission from 1987 to 1992.
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Ronan Keane has published many legal texts and papers and participated in Council of Europe programmes developing legal systems in Post-Communist Europe.
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Ronan Keane was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1996, becoming Chief Justice in 2000.
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Chief Justice Ronan Keane received an Honorary Doctorate from UCD in 2001, and has been an adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin since his retirement.
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In 1962, Ronan Keane married Therese O'Donnell, who, as Terry Ronan Keane, became a fashion journalist and later a social diarist.
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Ronan and Terry's daughter Justine Keane is married to Diarmuid Gavin, the Irish garden designer and television personality.
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Ronan Keane was for some years the Independent Chairman of the Appeals Board of the Turf Club of Ireland.