Patrick John McCartan (born 5 May 1953) is an Irish lawyer who was a
Circuit Court
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judge and a former politician.
A native of
Wexford
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, he was educated at
University College Dublin
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. He first practiced as a solicitor working in criminal defence and was a founder of the McCartan & Hogan Solicitors law firm.
His first several elections were unsuccessful, contesting the
1981
Events January
* January 1
** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union.
** Palau becomes a self-governing territory.
* January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...
, the
February 1982, and
November 1982 elections.
[ However, he was elected to ]Dublin City Council
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in the 1985 local election for the Artane area,[ serving for 2 years before he was then elected to ]Dáil Éireann
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as a Workers' Party
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Teachta Dála
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(TD) for the Dublin North-East constituency at the 1987 general election.[
In 1992, he joined with Proinsias De Rossa and five other Workers' Party deputies in resigning from the Workers' Party and in the creation of a new party, New Agenda which subsequently became Democratic Left.][ He stood as a Democratic Left candidate at the 1992 general election but lost his seat.]Fianna Fáil
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– Labour Party coalition government, Democratic Left joined in a new coalition with Fine Gael
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and the Labour Party. This government
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subsequently appointed McCartan to the bench as a Circuit Court judge.[
He retired as a judge in August 2016.][
In August 2020, he attended a golf party in County Galway which breached the ]COVID-19
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guidelines.
References
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1953 births
Living people
Members of Dublin City Council
Democratic Left (Ireland) TDs
Circuit Court (Ireland) judges
Members of the 25th Dáil
Members of the 26th Dáil
Politicians from County Wexford
Workers' Party (Ireland) TDs
Irish solicitors
Lawyers from County Wexford
20th-century Irish judges
21st-century Irish judges