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Úna Ní Raifeartaigh

Biography

Una Ní Raifeartaigh, BCL, BL, has been a Court of Appeal judge since 2019. She was previously a High Court judge from 2016 to 2019. She was formerly a research assistant at the Law Reform Commission (1988–1991) and Reid Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Trinity College Dublin (1991–1996). She commenced practice as a Junior Counsel in 1993 and became a Senior Counsel in 2009. Una Ní Raifeartaigh has twenty years’ experience as a criminal law practitioner. A former academic, she publishes articles on criminal evidence (and more broadly within the field of criminal justice) and speaks regularly at conferences.