Alan Shatter

Alan Shatter ( born 1 February 1951) is an Irish politician (Fine Gael ) and since March 2011 Justice and Defence Minister of Ireland.

At the age of four years Shatter moved with his parents from Rathfarnham Rathgar after. There he spent the next 35 years. He attended the National School Rathgar and then the local high school. After finishing school, he studied law at Trinity College Dublin and visited the Europa Instituut of the University of Amsterdam, where he studied European law, political science and economics.

In 1976 he was admitted as a solicitor. A year later he became partner in 1977 in the newly established law firm Gallagher Shatter. Shatter is one of the few solicitors who worked on both the High Court and the Supreme Court of Ireland.

In 1981, he was first elected for Fine Gael in Dublin South constituency in the Dáil Éireann and was this, due to several successful re- election until 2002. 2007 Shatter was re-elected to the Dáil Éireann. After his re-election in February 2011, he was in March 2011 Justice and Defence Minister in the cabinet of Taoiseach Enda Kenny.

Shatter is married and has two children. He lives with his family in Ballinteer.

Publications

  • Family Law in the Republic of Ireland ( 1977)
  • Family Planning Irish Style ( 1979)
  • Laura (1989 )
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