MacD. v MacD

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1980
• Date: 01 January 1980
• Court: Supreme Court

(S.C.)

MacD

and

MacD

Welfare of child - Different religion of father and mother - Marriage in Roman Catholic Church in England - Return to Ireland - Children brought up as Roman Catholics - Adultery of wife - Separation deed.

The plaintiff, who was the mother of the children, was aged thirty five. She was born and reared in Scotland and was, and remained, a member of Church of Ireland. The defendant who was the father was brought up as a Roman Catholic in the Republic of Ireland, but lived and worked for over twenty years in Scotland and England. The parties were married in a Roman Catholic Church in England and the two children of the marriage, a girl aged six and a half and a boy aged four and a half years were reared as Roman Catholics. The family returned to the Republic of Ireland early in 1973 and made the acquaintance of a man named D. The wife established an adulterous relationship with D which...