‘Pre-eminent’ Carney judged tough, fair, and an innovator

Ann O’Loughlin looks back on the high-profile and occasionally controversial career of the late Justice Paul Carney

THE judge who presided over some of Ireland’s most high- profile criminal cases in the last two decades has died, five months after his retirement.

Tributes were yesterday paid to the one-time most senior criminal judge in the country, the former presiding judge of the Central Criminal Court, Mr Justice Paul Carney who has died aged 72.