President MIchael D Higgins: Hardiman one of the great legal minds of his generation

Many tributes have been paid to Supreme Court Judge Adrian Hardiman who died suddenly yesterday.

Mr Justice Hardiman, who was 65, was married to retired circuit court judge Yvonne Murphy, and was a father of three and grandfather of three. He was at home in Portobello in Dublin when he died and his family described his passing as peaceful.

President Michael D Higgins led the tributes, saying he had learnt of his death with great sadness and that his passing was “an enormous loss” to the legal world and to Irish life.