Garrett Sheehan is a retired Irish judge who served as a Judge of the

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from 2014 to 2017 and a Judge of the High Court from 2007 to 2014. He was educated at

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and the

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. He was enrolled as a

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in 1969. He is a bencher of the

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. He retired from the bench in 2017. On 9 December 2020, he was appointed by President Michael D. Higgins to the position of Chairperson of the Standards in Public Office Commission.

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