Retired Supreme Court judge Mr Justice Hugh Geoghegan, who died last year, left an estate valued at almost €6.2 million.
Mr Justice Geoghegan of Ranelagh, Dublin, came from a prominent legal family; his father, James, having also served as a Supreme Court judge. In 1991 he married another retired Supreme Court judge, Ms Justice Mary Finlay Geoghegan, also from a well-known legal family.
Mr Justice Geoghegan’s daughter Caren is a senior counsel, while another daughter, Sarah, is a paediatrician. His son James Geoghegan is a former lord mayor of Dublin and a Fine Gael TD for Dublin Bay South.
The late judge was educated at Clongowes Wood College, University College Dublin and the King’s Inns.
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He was called to the Bar in 1962 and became a senior counsel in 1977, practising in Dublin and the Midlands circuit. He appeared as counsel before the tribunal into the Stardust fire disaster and chaired a commission that recommended the formation of the Labour Relations Commission.
He was appointed a judge of the High Court in 1992 and became a judge of the Supreme Court eight years later.
In another grant of probate this week, former Moneycorp Europe chief executive Bryan McSharry of Herbert Park, Ballsbridge, left an estate of almost €3.8 million.
The value of estates can include property, including the family home, and other assets.
Mr McSharry died suddenly in Co Wexford in August 2023, aged 55.
Mr McSharry, was a son of former Fianna Fáil tánaiste and European Commissioner Ray MacSharry and brother of independent, formerly Fianna Fáil TD for Sligo-Leitrim Marc MacSharry.
The businessman, who began his career at Investec before taking up roles as head of treasury sales at Anglo Irish Bank and its successor, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, helped to bring foreign exchange services company Moneycorp to Ireland in 2013 along with his former Anglo colleague Tiarnan O’Mahoney.
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