Career
Barron attended Castle Park School in Dalkey, County Dublin before progressing to Saint Columba's College, in Rathfarnham. He studied at third-level in Trinity College, Dublin. Upon his departure in 1950 Barron scored first class honours and was awarded a moderatorship in legal science. In 1951 he began the Bar and silk followed nineteen years later. Barron was a High Court judge for a total of fifteen years, beginning this job in 1982. In 1997 he granted the state's first divorce prior to his appointment to the Supreme Court in the same year. He was the first Jew ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court.
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