[2] On 5 October 1991 sixteen of the nineteen claimant "bloodline chiefs" were received at Áras an Uachtaráin by the President of Ireland, Mary Robinson,[3] along with the Chief Herald of Ireland and representation from the Irish Tourist Board.
[4] Maguire of Fermanagh, retired accountant Terence Maguire, was elected chairman of the Irish Chiefs Council for a three-year period while the O'Conor Don of Roscommon, retired businessman Denis O'Conor Don, was elected deputy-chairman.
In 1999, following a scandal, the Chief Herald of Ireland took advice from the Attorney General's Office that successions would no longer be given "courtesy recognition" or published in the Iris Oifigiúil.
While some representatives had obtained courtesy recognition as Chiefs of the Name from the Chief Herald of Ireland, this practice was discontinued by 2003 – when the Attorney General noted that such recognitions in a Republican system were unconstitutional and without basis in Irish law.
[8] The council issues an annual prize, in association with Trinity College Dublin.