Earlier this week we announced a new Law Soc president for Singapore.
Now we’ve got another one
In Ireland we have Stuart Gilhooly, solicitor for the Professional Footballers’ Association of Ireland, who has been announced as president of the Law Society.
The Dubliner (45), a partner in law firm HJ Ward & Co, in Dublin, will serve a one-year term representing the 16,000 members of the society.
He has worked on the society’s council for 17 years and chaired various committees, including finance, education and litigation during that time. In a press release on Friday, the society said he will be the first president to have a dedicated Twitter account.
He came to public prominence in November 2014, when he posted a blog on the PFAI website about professional footballer Ched Evans.
At the time, Evans, a former Wales international, had just been released from prison. He had been found guilty, in 2012, of the rape of a 19-year-old woman in a hotel in Rhyl, north Wales.
