• The King’s Inns, Dublin, Advanced Diploma in Irish Planning and Environmental Law (2022)
• The Inns of Court College of Advocacy, London, Bar Course (2021)
• City, University of London, GDL (2020) (Distinction)
• European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation, Venice, MA in Human Rights and Democratisation (2015)
• Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, B.A. European Studies (2014) (First) 
   

• The Honourable Society of the Inner Temple GDL Exhibition Award (2019) 
• City, University of London, Law School GDL Scholarship Award (2019)
• Awarded funding by European Inter-University Centre in Venice to undertake a six-month traineeship at the EU Delegation to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg for graduating amongst the top fifteen students with a Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation (2015)
• Winners’ Category of International Undergraduate Awards Competition in Social Sciences category for paper, “To what extent do Michel Foucault’s views on power and panopticism inform our understanding of modern-day control and surveillance?” (Finishing in the top 10% of 5,500 entries) (2015).
• Dean of Students’ Roll of Honour for Contribution to Student Life as President of the Trinity College Dublin French Society (2011)
• Entrance Exhibition Award from Trinity College Dublin for outstanding Leaving Certificate (Irish equivalent of A-Levels) results (2011)
   

Before coming to the Bar, Claire gained valuable experience of the intersection between environmental and human rights law in her previous career working for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights defenders in Geneva, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights and the international, Dublin-based NGO, Front Line Defenders. She also worked for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs as Deputy to the Permanent Representative of Ireland to the Council of Europe, Strasbourg. Alongside her pupillage, Claire supervises LLM students at the University of Essex Law Clinic and Human Rights Centre Clinic on a project focusing on the implementation of the right to a healthy environment in the UK.

• UK Environmental Law Association
• The Constitutional and Administrative Law Bar Association (ALBA)
   

• Co-drafter of the Environmental Justice Network Ireland, Queen’s University Belfast School of Law and Lawyers for Nature’s submission to the Irish Citizens’ Assembly entitled, “Rights of Nature in Ireland: Towards a Living Island of Rights-Bearing Communities”, September 2022.
• “Nature Rights are Human Rights: The UN Human Rights Council Resolution on the Right to a Safe, Clean, Healthy and Sustainable Environment”, Lawyers for Nature Blog, 25 March 2022.
• “Bridging the Gap between Law and Reality: The Endurance of Oppressive Cultural Norms and the Silencing of Survivors of Domestic Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina” in the 2016 edition of the International Journal on Rule of Law, Transitional Justice and Human Rights Vol. 6. 
   

• French (fluent)
• Irish (very good)
• Italian (very good)
• Spanish (very good)
   

Outside of work, Claire is a marathon and half marathon runner, Lindy Hop and solo jazz dancer. She also enjoys open-mic storytelling. In 2018, she was a National Finalist in the Dublin Story Slam in The Abbey Theatre, Dublin.