The judge William Keogh, before passing sentence asked him if he had any further remarks to make in reference to his case.
Described as "a man of great warmth, cleverness and inexhaustible resource", he was a friend of William Keogh and John Sadleir.
Further damage was done to his reputation by the Galway election petition case of 1872, where William Le Poer Trench, the unsuccessful candidate, petitioned to unseat the winner, John Philip Nolan, on the grounds of intimidation and undue pressure from the Catholic clergy.
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He went to Dr Huddard's school in Dublin, graduated from the University of Dublin and was called to the Bar in 1840, and became Queen's Counsel 1849.
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However two Irish MPs, John Sadleir and William Keogh then broke ranks by joining this ministry, an act for which they were never forgiven in Ireland, where they were remembered with contempt a century later.