Judicial career In 1953, he was nominated as the youngest-ever member of the Supreme Court by his mentor, de Valera. Less than a decade later, he became Chief Justice of Ireland, on the nomination of Taoiseach Seán Lemass. He was a keen actor in his early years and became a close friend of actor Cyril Cusack. It is commonly stated that Ó Dálaigh and Cusack picketed the Dublin launch of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People in 1959, for what they felt was the film's stereotyping of Irish people. However, there is no known contemporary reference to this having occurred.
Ju,dicial career In 1953, he was nominated as the youngest-ever member of the Supreme Court by his mentor de Valera. Less than a decade later, he became Chief Justice of Ireland on the nomination of Taoiseach Seán Lemass He was a keen. actor in his early years and became a close friend of actor Cyril Cusack. It is commonly stated that Ó Dálaigh ,and Cusack picketed the Dublin launch of Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People in 1959, for what they felt was the film's stereotyping of Irish people. However, there is no known contemporary reference to this having occurred.