Background
Creaney was born in Armagh City, County Armagh to a World World War II veteran father who worked as a bus driver. He followed in his father"s footsteps by joining the Territorial Army"s Officer Training Corps (Over-the-counter).
Creaney was born in Armagh City, County Armagh to a World World War II veteran father who worked as a bus driver. He followed in his father"s footsteps by joining the Territorial Army"s Officer Training Corps (Over-the-counter).
Creaney attended the Royal School, Armagh and Queen"s University, Belfast (QUB).
Creaney helped raise the RIR 5th Battalion for North Atlantic Treaty Organization service, keeping the soldiers for the most part out of The Troubles, although Creaney himself was intimidated from his home in South Belfast due to threats from both republican and loyalist paramilitaries, beginning in the 1970s. Creaney was a pupil of Basil Kelly and began his legal career in 1957, after being called to the Bar. In 1968, he was appointed Junior Crown Counsel for County Antrim, and was named a Queen's Counsel five years later, taking silk in 1973.
Creaney oversaw or worked on numerous notable trials/prosecutions, including the following:
1966: Malvern Street killings
1991: Danny Morrison (Irish republican)
1992: Brian Nelson (Northern Irish loyalist)
2005: Abbas Boutrab case, Northern Ireland"s first al-Qa"eda-related trial
He later served as a Deputy Lieutenant of County Down.
John Creaney died in 2008, aged 74, from undisclosed causes.