The Gazette 1985

GAZETTE

MARCH1985

KNOW YOUR COUNCIL 1984/85

Joseph L. Dundon

Joseph Dundon qualified as a Solicitor in 1962. He was first elected to the Council of the Society in 1965 and was President in 1977-78. He has served as Chairman of the Education Committee and is currently Chairman of the E.E.C. and International Affairs Committee. He has been a member of the Council of the International Bar Association since 1978 and Chairman of its Membership Committee since 1980. He obtained an M.B.A. from University College Dublin in 1981. He is senior partner of O'Donnell Dundon & Co., Limerick. He is married to Eileen (née Belton) and they have four children. He is interested in music, painting, sailing and skiing.

Patrick O'Connor Patrick O'Connor, a Partner in the Firm of P. O'Connor & Son, Solicitors, Swinford, County Mayo, is a son of Thomas V. O'Connor, Solicitor, a Past President of the Society and a grandson of the late Patrick O'Connor, Solicitor. He was educated at the Swinford National School and at Glenstal Abbey. Graduating from University College Dublin with an Honours B.C.L. Degree he was admitted a Solicitor in 1974. A member of the Council of the Law Society since 1978, he has served as Chairman and Vice Chairman of a number of Ad-Hoc and Statutory Committees of the Society. He is at present a member of the Litigation, Parliamentary, Joint Law Clerks, Bar Liaison and Registrars Committees and is Chairman of the Professional Purposes Committee.

Andrew F. Smyth Andrew F. Smyth was educated at St. Joseph's C.B.S., Marino, Belvedere College and University College Dublin, and was admitted as a Solicitor in the Michaelmas Term of 1957. He is Principal of the Firm of Carter, Smyth & Co. and was Honorary Secretary of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association from 1972 to 1979 and President of the Association in 1980/81. He was elected to the Council in 1978 and was Chairman of the Registrar's Committee in the years 1982 and 1983 and presently serves on the Parliamentary, Professional Purposes and Disciplinary Committees.