Dermot Gleeson is a barrister, former Irish government advisor and businessman born in Cork, Ireland in 1949. He is married with four children and lives in Dublin. This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... This article is about the city in Ireland. ...

Gleeson holds B.A. and LL.M degrees and qualified as a barrister at the King's Inns, Dublin. His father was a Circuit Court Judge and some of his brothers also work as lawyers. Called to the Irish bar in 1970 he first practised outside of Dublin, Ireland's main legal centre, on the Cork Circuit. He then moved to the capital when he was appointed a Senior Counsel in 1979 when only 30 years old. He is believed to have been the youngest ever "silk" appointed anywhere in the common law world in modern times. (To put this into context, other noted barristers, who took silk at an early age, such as the late Australian Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies and one time British Home Secretary David Maxwell Fyfe were lauded when they became Queen's Counsel at 35 and 34 years of age respectively.) A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... The Master of Laws is an advanced law degree that allows someone to specialize in a particular area of law. ... The Kings Inns or formally the Honorable Society of Kings Inns (HSKI) is the institution which controls the entry of barristers-at-law into the justice system of the Republic of Ireland. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 53. ... The title of Senior Counsel (postnominal SC; 資深大律師 in Hong Kong Cantonese [1] [2]; 高级律师 in Singapore Mandarin [3] [4]) or State Counsel is given to a senior barrister or advocate in some countries, especially in Commonwealth countries or jurisdictions in which the British monarch is no longer head of state, such... Sir Robert Gordon Menzies, KT, AK, CH, FRS, QC (20 December 1894 – 14 May 1978), Australian politician, was the twelfth and longest-serving Prime Minister of Australia, serving eighteen and a half years. ... David Patrick Maxwell Fyfe, 1st Earl of Kilmuir (1900-1967) was an important British politician and jurist. ...

Gleeson was Ireland's leading barrister in the 1980s and 1990s before he became a senior government advisor and then a businessman. From 1994-1997 he was chief legal advisor to of the government of Taoiseach John Bruton, serving as Attorney General. Gleeson is a Bencher of King's Inns and it is likely that he would have been appointed to high judicial office had he indicated an interest and left his lucrative practice. He is also a Visiting Fellow at the School of Law at University College, Dublin. In more recent years he has become well known for his business career. In 2000 he joined the board of Independent News and Media Plc as a non-executive director and in 2003 he was appointed Chairman of Ireland's largest bank Allied Irish Banks. In 2003 he was appointed ombudsman for the Diamond Trading Company (DTC), the marketing offshoot of diamond mining giant De Beers]. In 2007 he was appointed chairman of the Governing Body of University College, Cork. The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... The Taoiseach ( or [1]) — plural: Taoisigh ( or [1]) — or, more formally, An Taoiseach[2], is the head of government of the Republic of Ireland and the leader of the Irish cabinet, the rough equivalent of a prime minister under the Westminster System. ... John Gerard Bruton (born May 18, 1947) was the ninth Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of the Republic of Ireland. ... In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ... University College Dublin - National University of Ireland, Dublin - more commonly University College Dublin (UCD) - is Irelands largest university, with over 20,000 students. ... Independent News & Media (INM) is a media organisation based in Dublin, Ireland with interests worldwide. ... Allied Irish Banks plc (AIB),ISEQ: ALBK, LSE: ALBK, NYSE: AIB, FWB:AIB is a commercial bank based in Ireland not to be mistaken for Anglo Irish Bank. ... De Beers was founded in South Africa in 1888 and today comprises rough diamond exploration, mining and trading companies. ...

Mr. Gleeson is a former Auditor of the Literary and Historical Society, University College Dublin   The Literary and Historical Society (L&H) is University College Dublins oldest debating society, founded by John Henry Newman at the same time as the Colleges predecessor, the Catholic University of Ireland, in 1854. ...

The Attorney General (Irish: An Ard-Aighne) is the official adviser to the Irish Government in matters of law. ... David Byrne (Born April 6, 1947) is an Irish barrister and EU Commissioner. ...

External References

• http://lawlibrary.ie/members/barrister.asp?barID=72
• http://www.aib.ie
• http://www.ucd.ie/law/lawinfo/