Gazette People Extra: June 2014

The Irish Law Awards 2014, The Four Seasons, Dublin, 2 May.

1. Mr Justice Quirke presents the Bar Council’s Human Rights Award to Patricia Sheehy Skeffington at the third annual Irish Law Awards. The award was in recognition of those barristers who voluntarily represented the victims of the Magdalene Laundries

2. Brian O’Neill, marketing director at Friends First, presenting Myra Garrett (managing partner, William Fry) with the Law Firm of the Year Award (sponsored by Friends First) at the Irish Law Awards 2014. Hosted by Miriam O’Callaghan the awards took place in The Four Seasons and recognise the outstanding achievements and exemplary practices of leading law firms, legal practitioners and in-house legal teams across the country

3. Dr Eamonn G Hall, chairman of the judging panel of the Irish Law Awards, presenting a Lifetime Achievement Award to Maurice Gaffney SC. Also in the picture in Miriam O’Callaghan, who hosted the awards

4. Robert Kennedy, Harry Fehily and Robert Bourke (Holmes O’Malley Sexton Solicitors) received the ‘Munster Law Firm of the Year’ award (for firms with over five solicitors)

5. Jenny Fenton and Josepha Madigan (Madigan Solicitors) received the prestigious ‘Family Law Team/Lawyer of the Year’ award