Natalie McDonnell (Co-Chair)

Natalie McDonnell is a practicing barrister. She teaches Family Law at the School of Social Work, Trinity College, Dublin and Media Law at the National University of Ireland,  Maynooth. Prior to being called to the bar, she worked in a variety of posts in the non-governmental sector and has researched and advocated extensively in the areas of equality, women’s rights and the rights of migrant communities.

  John Kennedy

John Kennedy is a practicing Dublin-based Barrister-at-Law. He has a general legal practice and has represented clients in discrimination cases, equality cases, Traveller’s rights cases and immigration law matters. John is a graduate of UCD and Vrije Universiteit Brussels. John has a particular interest in criminal law and teaches criminal practice in The Law Society of Ireland's Law School. John is a longstanding member of the ICCL.

Mary McIvor

Mary McIvor joined the Executive Board in May 2006 and is currently employed as an Operations Manager in the IT industry. Mary has extensive Operations Management experience and has also held a number of Sales & Marketing roles

 Niall Mulligan (Co-Chair)

Niall Mulligan has worked within the Community & Voluntary sector in both Ireland and the UK since 1990, primarily within the areas of addiction, homelessness and justice. He is currently CEO with Dundalk Simon Community and is deeply involved in developing a Human Rights Based Approach to the work of the organisation.

 Siobhán Cummiskey   

Siobhán Cummiskey is the managing solicitor of the Irish Traveller Movement Independent Law Centre. She is also a course contributor to the Certificate in Human Rights Law at the Law Society of Ireland and sits on the Human Rights Committee of the Law Society. Siobhán holds a LL.B from the University of Dublin, Trinity College and a first class honours LL.M. in Human Rights Law from the University of Nottingham and is a qualified US attorney. Siobhán has worked with the European Human Rights Advocacy Centre in London, Vigil India Movement in Bangalore, the Legal Aid Department of Malawi, the Irish Human Rights Commission and the International Human Rights Network. 

Alan DP Brady 

Alan DP Brady   is a practicing barrister and an adjunct lecturer in the Law School at Trinity College Dublin.  At TCD, he teaches an undergraduate course on penology and a postgraduate course on judicial review and human rights. He also teaches administrative law at the King's Inns. He has previously worked at Front Line and at the Law Reform Commission. He has a PhD in human rights law from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Claire Hamilton

Cliare Hamilton practised as a barrister in criminal law until 2004 when she became a full time lecturer in criminology in Dublin Institute of Technology. In DIT she teaches social care law, criminological theory, sentencing and criminal justice. Her first book Whittling the Golden Thread: The Presumption of Innocence and Irish Criminal Law was published by Irish Academic Press in 2007 and she is currently working on her second book, Social Work and Social Care Law due for publication in March 2012 (Gill and MacMillan). She has previously served on the board of the Irish Penal Reform Trust and acted as Chair of the Trust from 2005 to 2007. She holds a PhD in Law (Criminology) from UCD.