Tributes have been paid in the Circuit Court to Ms Meliosa Dooge, the distinguished family law barrister who died at the age of 41 on Wednesday last.
Mr Justice Smyth, president of the Circuit Court, spoke of her as a trusted and loyal friend of all.
"We should remember that at the beginning, when Meliosa and a loyal band of family lawyers first ventured into this difficult and sometimes distressing branch of the law, the rewards were uncertain, the jurisdiction which they worked in was more ecclesiastical than human," he said.
Judge Liam Devally said that for Meliosa to have been taken from them so young and in the prime of a wonderfully successful career had affected all of them deeply.
Their hearts went out to her husband, Michael, and her children.
