Editing Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh (section)

==Judicial career==
In 1953, he was nominated as the youngest-ever member of the [[Supreme Court of Ireland|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{{nbsp}}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.<ref>{{cite web |title=Darby O'Gill and the Little People |publisher=[[Irish Film Institute]] |url=http://ifi.ie/film/darby-ogill-and-the-little-people |access-date=7 June 2017 |archive-date=15 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715220126/http://ifi.ie/film/darby-ogill-and-the-little-people/ |url-status=live }}</ref> However, there is no known contemporary reference to this having occurred.<ref>{{cite news |date=June 27, 2009 |first=Fintan |last=O'Toole |url=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/0627/1224249636182.html |title=How 'Darby O'Gill' captured an Ireland rapidly fading |newspaper=Irish Times |access-date=28 November 2016 |archive-date=20 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220124536/http://www.irishtimes.com/news/how-darby-o-gill-captured-an-ireland-rapidly-fading-1.793541 |url-status=live }}</ref>

He was an opponent of the US bombing of [[North Vietnam]].<ref>{{Cite journal |jstor = 30001965|title = Irish Perspectives on the Vietnam War|journal = Irish Studies in International Affairs|volume = 14|pages = 75–94|last1 = McNamara|first1 = Robert|year = 2003|doi = 10.3318/ISIA.2003.14.1.75| s2cid=153710978 }}</ref>

In 1972, Taoiseach [[Jack Lynch]] suggested to the opposition parties that they agree to nominate Ó{{nbsp}}Dálaigh to become [[President of Ireland]] when President de Valera's second term ended in June of the following year. [[Fine Gael]], confident that its prospective candidate [[Tom O'Higgins]] would win the [[1973 Irish presidential election|1973 presidential election]] (he had almost defeated de Valera in [[1966 Irish presidential election|1966]]), turned down the offer. Fianna Fáil's [[Erskine Hamilton Childers|Erskine H. Childers]] went on to win the election that followed.

When Ireland joined the [[European Economic Community]], Lynch nominated Ó{{nbsp}}Dálaigh as Ireland's judge on the [[European Court of Justice]].<ref name="rte-pres"/> 

When President Childers died suddenly in 1974, all parties agreed to nominate Ó{{nbsp}}Dálaigh to replace him as President of Ireland.<ref>''Western Europe 2003'' (2002, {{ISBN|1857431529}}), p. 330: "Childers died while in office; he was succeeded by Carroll O'Daly, an all-party nomination."</ref>