Eoghan Fitzsimons

{{Short description|Irish barrister}}

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| name = Eoghan Fitzsimons

| honorific-suffix = SC

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| order = 24th

| office = Attorney General of Ireland

| taoiseach = Albert Reynolds

| term_start = 11 November 1994

| term_end = 15 December 1994

| predecessor = Harry Whelehan

| successor = Dermot Gleeson

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1943|6|13|df=y}}

| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland

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| nationality = Irish

| party = Fianna Fáil

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| alma_mater = {{Ubl|University College Dublin|Yale University|Sorbonne University}}

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Eoghan Fitzsimons SC (born 13 June 1943) is an Irish barrister who served as Attorney General of Ireland from November 1994 to December 1994.

He served as Attorney General of Ireland from 11 November to 15 December 1994.{{cite web|url=http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/ago/gallery2.html |title=Gallery of previous Attorneys General – 1981 to 1994 |publisher=Office of the Attorney General |accessdate=11 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709161525/http://www.attorneygeneral.ie/ago/gallery2.html |archivedate=9 July 2011 }} During his tenure as Attorney General, former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern described Fitzsimons's relationship with the government and then Taoiseach Albert Reynolds as "strained".{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UeDQJcJKXkUC&dq=eoghan+fitzsimons+bertie+ahern&pg=PA164|title=Bertie Ahern: The Autobiography|work=Page 164|isbn=9780099539254|accessdate=19 January 2015|last1=Ahern|first1=Bertie|year=2010|publisher=Arrow |archive-date=22 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210922235044/https://books.google.com/books?id=UeDQJcJKXkUC&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=eoghan+fitzsimons+bertie+ahern#q=eoghan%20fitzsimons%20bertie%20ahern|url-status=live}} He stood as a Fianna Fáil candidate for the Dublin Clontarf constituency at the 1977 general election but was not elected.{{cite web|url=http://electionsireland.org/candidate.cfm?ID=3129|title=Eoghan Fitzsimons|work=ElectionsIreland.org|accessdate=11 January 2012|archive-date=18 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111018163635/http://electionsireland.org//candidate.cfm?id=3129|url-status=live}}