He chaired the Flood Tribunal which investigated allegations of corrupt payments to politicians.
[1] Flood spent the earlier parts of his legal career practising as a junior and senior counsel in Monaghan, Cavan and Dundalk.
Known as the Flood Tribunal, it was originally set up to probe allegations of corruption against former Fianna Fáil Minister Ray Burke but was extended to cover alleged corruption involving land developers and Dublin politicians as well as former assistant Dublin city and county manager George Redmond.
[4] Flood met his future wife, Anna Maria, on a holiday in Italy.
Flood suffered from Alzheimer's disease in later life and died on 10 September 2022, at the age of 94.