Martin Giblin SC, along with my good friend and instructing solicitor Paul McNally, Paul Callan SC who led a number of important cases on sovereignty and the independence of Ireland’s foreign policy, including Crotty and McKenna, and the leading EIA environmental case, Lancefort. In the round, Martin may have done more than any of his contemporaries to address miscarriages of justice in Ireland. An ordinary man with an exceptional IQ, Martin helped us take on the might of the Irish Free State. He had no faith in the ethics or competence of the Irish state or justice system, with a few rare exceptions of integrity—like himself. We were the underdogs, but we came out on top because we had Martin Giblin SC in our corner.