PILA welcomes its new Manager, Larry Donnelly!
PILA welcomes its new Manager, Larry Donnelly. Larry is a Boston born and educated attorney who holds American and Irish passports. Before taking on his new role with PILA, he was Lecturer & Director of Clinical Legal Education in the School of Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. At NUI Galway, Larry taught practical legal skills to undergraduate and postgraduate law students and established the School of Law's Clinical Legal Education programme, the largest of its kind in Ireland and a 2009 finalist for the MacJannet Prize for Global Citizenship, which recognises exceptional student civic engagement activities in universities around the world. He has published law review articles on legal education and comparative law. In addition to practising law, Larry was active in government and politics in his native Massachusetts before relocating to Ireland and now comments regularly on politics and current affairs in the Irish print and broadcast media. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA and a Juris Doctor degree from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA.