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Brian Lenihan Jnr

Brian Lenihan
Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil
In office
15 March 2011 – 10 June 2011
Leader Micheál Martin
Preceded by Mary Hanafin
Succeeded by Éamon Ó Cuív
Minister for Finance
In office
7 May 2008 – 9 March 2011
Taoiseach Brian Cowen
Preceded by Brian Cowen
Succeeded by Michael Noonan
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
In office
14 June 2007 – 7 May 2008
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
Preceded by Michael McDowell
Succeeded by Dermot Ahern
Minister of State for Children
In office
19 June 2002 – 14 June 2007
Taoiseach Bertie Ahern
Preceded by Mary Hanafin
Succeeded by Brendan Smith
Teachta Dála
In office
2 April 1996 – 10 June 2011
Constituency Dublin West
Personal details
Born Brian Joseph Lenihan
(1959-05-21)21 May 1959
Athlone, Westmeath, Ireland
Died 10 June 2011(2011-06-10) (aged 52)
Castleknock, Dublin, Ireland
Nationality Irish
Political party Fianna Fáil
Spouse(s) Patricia Ryan (m. 1997; d. 2011)
Relations
Children 2
Parents
Alma mater

Brian Joseph Lenihan (21 May 1959 – 10 June 2011) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician and barrister who served in the government of Ireland as Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007 to 2008 and as Minister for Finance from 2008 to 2011. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin West constituency from 1996 to 2011, and he served as Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil for a brief period in 2011 until his death from pancreatic cancer.

Born in Dublin in 1959, Lenihan grew up in Athlone, County Westmeath until the age of 12, attending the local Marist Brothers primary school. He was then educated at Belvedere College, where he was School Captain, then at Trinity College, Dublin where he obtained an LL.B. (first class). He was elected a foundation scholar of the college in 1979. While in Trinity Brian Lenihan was Treasurer of the College Historical Society. Lenihan was later awarded an LL.M. (first class) at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and was called to the Irish Bar by the Honorable Society of King's Inns.

He began lecturing in law at Trinity College, Dublin in 1984 and in the same year was called to the Irish Bar. From 1992 to 1995 he was a member of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Tribunal and the Garda Síochána Complaints Appeal Board, and in 1997 he became a Senior Counsel.


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