Noeleen Healy

The prestigious one-year fellowship programme was established by the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA) in 2015 and has been developed in partnership with The Bar of Ireland and with the support of the Family Lawyers’ Association of Ireland (FLAI).

The programme allows for newly-qualified barristers to work as part of the CRA’s legal and policy team on law and policy reform for children in the area of children’s rights and child law.

Ms Healy is a practising barrister working in the areas of immigration, asylum, family law and general civil law. She represents applicants in appeals at the International Protection Appeals Tribunals, in judicial reviews at the High Court and clients in family law matters at both the District and Circuit Court.

Prior to commencing practice at the Bar, Ms Healy worked as a caseworker with the Refugee Legal Service and, before that, as a judicial assistant, assigned to the asylum, immigration and citizenship list at the High Court. She has also worked as a legal researcher for a public body, as well as volunteering with FLAC and a number of migrant rights and civil society organisations.

Ms Healy was educated at NUI Galway, obtaining first a commerce degree followed by a postgraduate degree in law. She then obtained an LLM in Peace Operations, Humanitarian Law and Conflict from the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Ms Healy completed her barrister-at-law degree in 2018, obtaining an advanced diploma in data protection law at the same time.