The Government has decided to nominate High Court judge Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan as President of the Court to replace Mr Justice Frederick Morris who retires at the weekend.
Mr Justice Finnegan will also replace Mr Justice Morris on the Special Criminal Court with effect from December 1st.
Mr Justice Finnegan (59), who has worked both as a solicitor and as a barrister, has been a judge of the High Court for two years.
He was educated at Synge Street CBS Dublin, St Mary's College Dundalk, UCD, the Incorporated Law Society and Kings Inns. He qualified as a solicitor in 1966, practising in Dublin for over a year before becoming Assistant Secretary of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland from 1968 to 1972.
He practised again as a solicitor until 1978 when he was called to the Bar, and was called to the Inner Bar in 1990.