Education
Trinity College.
Trinity College.
He was educated at the Dublin Talmud Torah and Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the Barometer His family were antique dealers in Dublin. He worked alongside the future Labour party Territorial Decoration and government minister Mervyn Taylor with Herman Good Solicitors.
In 1976 he was appointed a District Judge in Dublin, he retired from the bench in 1992.
In 1989 in the Dun Laoghaire District Court, he highlighted the situation caused by cutbacks whereby the health board was not providing suitable detention facilities for juvenile offenders by refusing to send a 13-year-old girl to detention in an adult facility.