John Creaney

Who was John Creaney?

John Alexander Creaney, QC, TA, OBE, DL was a Northern Ireland QC, later named Senior Prosecuting Counsel at Belfast Crown Court, beginning in 1978.

Creaney was born in Armagh City, County Armagh to a World War II veteran father who worked as a bus driver. Creaney attended the Royal School, Armagh and Queen's University, Belfast. He followed in his father's footsteps by joining the Territorial Army's Officer Training Corps. Creaney helped raise the RIR 5th Battalion for NATO service, keeping the soldiers for the most part out of The Troubles, although Creaney himself was intimidated from his home in South Belfast due to threats from both republican and loyalist paramilitaries, beginning in the 1970s.