Darragh comes to Chambers as a pupil in 2018 having spent four years at the University of Cambridge where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in the area of human rights law. Prior to that, he served for six years as an Army Officer in the Irish Defence Forces. He will sit with different pupil supervisors  throughout the year to gain familiarity with different areas of Chambers work, starting with Richard Smith as his pupil supervisor.

He holds a first class honours undergraduate degree in law and a first class honours Master of Laws degree from University College Dublin.

While at Cambridge, Darragh was the executive chairperson of the Cambridge Pro Bono Project, Co-Convener of the Cambridge International and European Law Conference and taught small group sessions on the Human Rights and Civil Liberties module on the LLM course.

Awards

  • Travelling Studentship in Law, National University of Ireland (2014-2018)
  • Faculty of Law Ph.D. Bursary, University of Cambridge (2014-2017)
  • Francis and Buris Gahan Scholarship, Inner Temple (2016)
  • BPTC Exhibition Award, Inner Temple (2016)
  • BPTC Excellence Award, BPP Law School (2016)

Education

  • Bar Professional Training Course (Very Competent), BPP Law School (2016-2018, Part-time)
  •  LLM (First Class Honours), University College Dublin (2013)
  •  Dip. Management and Defence Studies, Irish Defence Forces Military College (2009)
  •  BCL (hons.) (First Class Honours), University College Dublin (2008)

Memberships

  • Inner Temple

Publications

‘Standards of Scrutiny in Judicial Review of Deportation Decisions Involving Article 3, ECHR –X.X. v Minister for Justice and Equality’ (2017) 57 The Irish Jurist 144

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