
The latter is the story of controversies that occurred in the period immediately preceding his resignation from government in May 2014, and the reports into these events. The former is a biography of the years prior to his election as a member of the Irish parliament and their relationship to later events. In 2017, his Life is a Funny Business was published by Poolbeg Press and in 2019 Frenzy and Betrayal: The Anatomy of a Political Assassination was published by Merrion Press. He is also the author of the satirical book Family Planning Irish Style (1979), and the novel Laura (1989).
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Among his professional affiliations, he is a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

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He is a former chairperson of FLAC (the Free Legal Advice Centres), a former chairperson of CARE, an organisation that campaigned for child care and children's legislation reform in the 1970s and a former President of the Irish Council Against Blood Sports. As a politician he played a lead role in effecting much of the constitutional and legislative change he advocated. He is the author of one of the major academic works on Irish family law (1977, 1981, 19) which advocated substantial constitutional and family law reform. As a solicitor he acted as advocate in many seminal and leading cases determined both by the High Court and Supreme Court. Shatter was a partner in the Dublin law firm Gallagher Shatter (1977-2011).

With interests in fifteen properties, Shatter had the largest property portfolio of any member of Ireland's cabinet while a cabinet minister (2011-2014). Shatter has lived most of his life in Dublin he grew up in Rathgar and Rathfarnham and lives now in Ballinteer with his wife, Carol Ann (Danker) Shatter. In his late teens he worked for two months in Israel on a kibbutz. He was educated at The High School, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin and the Europa Institute of the University of Amsterdam.

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