D-day looms for ex-judge.FORMER Supreme Court Judge Hugh O'Flaherty Msgr. Hugh O'Flaherty, CBE (28 February 1898 – 30 October 1963) was an Irish Catholic priest who saved about 4,000 Allied soldiers and Jews in the Vatican during World War II. He earned the nickname "the Pimpernel of the Vatican". will find out on Friday if he is free to take up his pounds 147,000 Euro banking job. That's when the Supreme Court will deliver its verdict on a challenge to the Government appointment. Lecturer Denis Denis, king of Portugal: see Diniz. Riordan took his fight to block the nomination to the State's highest court after losing out in the High Court last month. Yesterday Riordan said the Government exceeded its powers in giving O'Flaherty the job as vice president of the European Investment Bank European Investment Bank, nonprofit bank created in 1958 by the six founding countries of the European Economic Community (now part of the European Union [EU]). without advertising it to all citizens. The row over O'Flaherty's appointment rocked the Government. It was blamed for a slump in support for both Coalition parties in the opinions polls. Riordan said he may go to the European Court of Human Rights European Court of Human Rights: see Council of Europe. if the Irish courts rule against him. |
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