Pat McCartan
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Patrick John McCartan (born 5 May 1953) is an Irish lawyer who was a Circuit Court judge and a former politician.
A native of Wexford, he was educated at University College Dublin.[1] He first practiced as a solicitor working in criminal defence and was a founder of the McCartan & Hogan Solicitors law firm.[2][3]
His first several elections were unsuccessful, contesting the 1981, the February 1982, and November 1982 elections.[3] However, he was elected to Dublin City Council in the 1985 local election for the Artane area,[2][3] serving for 2 years before he was then elected to Dáil Éireann as a Workers' Party Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-East constituency at the 1987 general election.[3][4] He was re-elected at the 1989 general election.[3]
In 1992, he joined with Proinsias De Rossa and five other Workers' Party deputies in resigning from the Workers' Party and in the creation of a new party, New Agenda which subsequently became Democratic Left.[2][3] He stood as a Democratic Left candidate at the 1992 general election but lost his seat.[5] After the collapse of the 1992–1994 Fianna Fáil–Labour Party coalition government, Democratic Left joined in a new coalition with Fine Gael and the Labour Party. This government subsequently appointed McCartan to the bench as a Circuit Court judge.[2]
He retired as a judge in August 2016.[2]
In August 2020, he attended a golf party in County Galway which breached the COVID-19 guidelines.[6]
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