Researching Ronan Keane
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The name Ronan means "a pledge" and is of Celtic origin.
Records of Ronan Keane on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Ronan Keane and the Keane Family History
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Some Famous People called Ronan Keane
Ronan Keane
Ronan Colman Keane (born 20 July 1932) is a retired Irish judge who served as Chief Justice of Ireland from 2000 to 2004, a Judge of the Supreme Court from 1996 to 2004 and a Judge of the High Court from 1979 to 1996.
Keane was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and later graduated from University College Dublin (UCD) in 1953, with a BA in Modern History. He was called to the Bar in 1954 and became a Senior Counsel in 1970. He was appointed as a Judge of the High Court in July 1979. He was head of the Tribunal of Inquiry into the Stardust fire in 1981, and chairman of the Law Reform Commission from 1987 to 1992. He has published many legal texts and papers, and participated in Council of Europe programmes developing legal systems in Post-Communist Europe. He was elevated to the Supreme Court in 1996, becoming Chief Justice in 2000. Chief Justice Keane received an Honorary Doctorate from UCD in 2001, and has been an Adjunct Professor at Trinity College Dublin since his retirement.
In 1962, Keane married Therese O'Donnell, who, as Terry Keane, became a fashion journalist and later a social diarist. They had three children together, and later became close to the daughter Terry had previously given up for adoption. The couple separated in the 1980s but remained amicable. Their son Tim died suddenly in 2004. In 1999, Terry revealed on The Late Late Show her affair beginning in 1972 with sometime Taoiseach Charles Haughey. Ronan and Terry's daughter Justine Keane is married to Diarmuid Gavin, the Irish garden designer and television personality.
Keane is the Independent Chairman of the Appeals board of the Turf Club of Ireland.
Source: Ronan Keane, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Keane
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