Biographical sketch

David was born in 1950 and qualified as a solicitor in 1972. He has been in general practice at 109 Ranelagh, Dublin 6 ever since. David provides a comprehensive service in all branches of the civil law for the personal as well as the commercial client. In 1979 he was appointed a Notary Public and shortly afterwards he was elected to the Governing Council of the Faculty of Notaries Public in Ireland, a position he has held ever since. In 2009 he was appointed Registrar of the Faculty, and he is currently the administrator of that organization. In 2010 he performed Irelands first ever eNotarial act and is to the forefront in the promotion of eNotarial advancement in Ireland. David is regarded as having both great expertise in and a wide experience of Notarial practice.

David is married with four children, and lives near his office in Ranelagh.

David plays regular tennis in Rathgar Tennis Club, enjoys cycle touring with the WW Cycling Club, and hillwalks regularly, but his abiding passion is sea kayaking. When younger he was a competent climber and has many first ascents of Irish rock routes to his credit, besides at least nine first ascents of Arctic peaks in Greenland, as well as in Spitzbergen in the Svalbard group. He is the author of Oileáin, the definitive work on Irish islands www.oileain.org published by Pesda Press under ISBN 0-9531956-9-4 in June 2004. David's main project for 2012 is the publication of "Oileáin a Dó" .