Philip Sheedy, an architect, was involved in a road traffic accident in March 1996 at the Glenview Roundabout, Tallaght Bypass, County Dublin which resulted in the death of Anne Ryan.
It transpired that Sheedy, who was driving a high performance sports car that he had purchased the previous day, was intoxicated.
[3] In July 1998 the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, contacted then minister for justice John O'Donoghue to ask him whether it would be possible for Philip Sheedy to get day release.
After the encounter, Dublin County Registrar Michael Quinlan was called to Mr. Justice O'Flaherty's chambers to have Sheedy's case re-listed.
[5] On 12 November 1998, after O'Flaherty's intervention, Sheedy's sentence was reviewed before Mr. Justice Cyril Kelly, and not Judge Matthews, as would be the correct procedure.
[9] After his resignation Hugh O'Flaherty was nominated by Charlie McCreevy, then Minister for Finance, to be Ireland's representative to the European Investment Bank (EIB), taking the position of vice-president.