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Irish lawyer
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19 April 1949(Dalkey, Ireland)
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Eoghan Fitzsimons SC (born 19 April 1949) is an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from November 1994 to December 1994.
He graduated as a Master of Laws from Yale Law School and as a Doctor of Laws from the Sorbonne University, Paris. He served as Attorney General of Ireland from 11 November to 15 December 1994. During his tenure as Attorney General former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern described Fitzsimons's relationship with the government and then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds as "strained". He stood as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the Dublin Clontarf constituency at the 1977 general election but was not elected.