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Profile: Úna Ní Raifeartaigh - the new judge of the European Court of Human Rights
Ní Raifeartaigh was part of the prosecution against Anglo Irish Bank directors following the crash
Ms Justice Úna Ní Raifeartaigh, the Court of Appeal judge and former barrister, will become a judge of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in July.
A former academic, who was called to the bar in 1993 and took silk in 2009, was Ireland’s top-paid senior counsel (SC) by the state before her appointment to the High Court in 2016.
Over the course of a 30-year legal career, Ní Raifeartaigh’s name has been ubiquitous, ...