{"id":317797,"date":"2026-02-26T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317797\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T06:28:11","slug":"two-judges-nominated-for-appointment-to-supreme-court-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/317797\/","title":{"rendered":"Two judges nominated for appointment to Supreme Court \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two judges of the Court of Appeal<\/a> are to be nominated by the Government to fill two vacancies on the Supreme Court<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Judges Niamh Hyland and Brian O\u2019Moore are the nominees agreed to replace Judge Elizabeth Dunne, who retired last week<\/a>, and Judge Peter Charleton<\/a>, who is due to retire in April.<\/p>\n

The nominations mean the nine-member Supreme Court will be comprised of three female and six male judges.<\/p>\n

Following nomination by the Government, the judges will be formally appointed on a later date by President Catherine Connolly. <\/p>\n

Their appointments will be the first to be made to the Supreme Court under a process conducted by the Judicial Appointments Commission<\/a>, established in January 2025. <\/p>\n

Chaired by the Chief Justice, the nine-member commission comprises four judges and four lay members, with the Attorney General a non-voting member.<\/p>\n

The commission operates under the Judicial Appointments Commission Act 2023, which is aimed at ensuring a transparent, merit-based process for judicial appointments.<\/p>\n

The process required those interested in the Supreme Court positions to formally apply to the commission which, after conducting interviews, recommended five names for Government consideration.<\/p>\n

Hyland, who was called to the Bar in 1994, was appointed a judge of the High Court in 2019. In October 2024, she was promoted to the Court of Appeal.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Moore was called to the Bar in 1984 and became a judge of the High Court in late 2019. He was appointed a judge of the Court of Appeal almost four years later, in October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two judges of the Court of Appeal are to be nominated by the Government to fill two vacancies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10202,42,43,8779,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-317797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-court-of-appeal","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-supreme-court","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}