IPRT Board of Directors
Dr. Mary Rogan (Chair)
Mary is a lecturer at the School of Social Sciences and Law at Dublin Institute of Technology. She did her PhD on Irish prison policy and she has published on criminal law, criminal justice and penology.
Eddie D’Arcy (Vice-Chair)
Eddie is Youth Work Services Manager for Catholic Youth Care, an organisation committed to youth work responses that are caring and compassionate, offering support and a variety of training and recreational programmes.
Paddy Richardson (Treasurer)
Paddy manages the employment programmes at Business in the Community Ireland, working on programmes enabling ex-offenders, prisoners, homeless persons and non-EU nationals to secure and retain work. Paddy was previously an Independent Councillor and is currently on the board of PROTECT N&S, a collaboration between the probation organisations in Northern Ireland and Ireland.
Dr. Joe Barry
Joe is Chair of Population Health Medicine at the Department of Public Health & Primary Care, Trinity College, Dublin. He is co-author of 'Primary medical care in Irish prisons', BMC Health Services Research, 10 (2010)
Johnny Connolly
Johnny is a criminologist in the Alcohol and Drugs Research Unit of the Health Research Board. He has researched and written on community policing, drugs and crime and alternatives to imprisonment. At present he is conducting a major study on Ireland's illicit drug market for the National Advisory Committee on Drugs.
Kathleen Leader
Kathleen is a practising barrister, working in the area of criminal law and specialising in constitutional law. She has been junior counsel since 2002 and works in the Dublin and Eastern circuits. Prior to being called to the bar, she worked in the office of the Chief Prosecution Solicitor.
Christine Littlefield
Christine is Manager of the Tús Nua Apartments, with the Depaul Ireland, an organisation providing services to vulnerable groups of homeless people, including persons released from prison.
Claire O’Regan
Claire is a practising criminal defence solicitor with Mac Guill & Company and is a member of the Council of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association.
Niall Walsh
Niall is a graduate of the Trinity Access Programme at Trinity College Dublin and holds a degree in Social Science and a Postgraduate Diploma in Adult and Community Education from National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Niall is involved with prison education and the education and support of prisoners post-release.