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Arthur Plunkett (ˋ60), died March 19 2001
A founder pupil in 1950, he was a star cricketer, once
taking four wickets in successive balls against
Blackrock, and in the late 1970s returned to the
cricket field with Phoenix and the Leprechauns (see
recent photo of Charles Lysaght in Leprechaun blazer,
below).
Deputy head of the Attorney General’s Office
where he served from 1973, he became a Law Reform
Commissioner in 1997. He was effectively chief
adviser to successive governments on European law
for over 20 years.
Charles Lysaght’s appreciation of him
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appeared in The Irish Times, 27 March 2001 and is
reprinted in full in The Gonzaga Record for that year.
Charles Lysaght in distinctive Leprechaun blazer,
with Kevin Whirdy, Principal (2013)
107
Arthur Plunkett (ˋ60), died March 19 2001
A founder pupil in 1950, he was a star cricketer, once
taking four wickets in successive balls against
Blackrock, and in the late 1970s returned to the
cricket field with Phoenix and the Leprechauns (see
recent photo of Charles Lysaght in Leprechaun blazer,
below).
Deputy head of the Attorney General’s Office
where he served from 1973, he became a Law Reform
Commissioner in 1997. He was effectively chief
adviser to successive governments on European law
for over 20 years.
Charles Lysaght’s appreciation of him
th
appeared in The Irish Times, 27 March 2001 and is
reprinted in full in The Gonzaga Record for that year.
Charles Lysaght in distinctive Leprechaun blazer,
with Kevin Whirdy, Principal (2013)
107
