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Fitzgibbon cling to an office he had come to despise. Hogan points out that in this regard at least Fitzgibbon had good reason to be bitter with his treatment by the Government, because he was required on age grounds to retire 9 months before he qualified for the full amount, he
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Unionist, his friends insisted that he was by no means opposed to the new regime and indeed if he had been, he would hardly have accepted high office in it. However, he seems to have become deeply disillusioned with the increasingly
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simply on account of his legal ability, despite their serious differences on political issues, which Hogan refers to as a clash between
Kennedy's "enthusiastic nationalism" and Fitzgibbon's "pessimistic scepticism".
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Despite his obvious unhappiness in his professional life, he remained on the
Supreme Court of Ireland until he reached retirement age in 1938; Chief Justice Kennedy believed that his somewhat unsatisfactory
294:, the second Gerald Fitzgibbon was credited with making the Court of Appeal a tribunal whose judgements are still quoted with respect today. Mr. Justice Fitzgibbon through his mother was the grandson of
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