Defence Forces Review 2008

Defence Forces Review 2008
8. Comdt Rory Finnegan joined the Defence Forces as a Cadet in 1983 and was
commissioned into the Artillery Corps. As a YO he served predominately with 1 Fd
Arty Regt, during which time he completed two tours in UNIFIL. Having graduated
from UCG with a BA in 1987, he was subsequently awarded an MA from UL in Intl
Studies in 1996. In 2000 having completed an MSc in Global Security at the Royal
Military College of Science, Shrivenham, he was posted to the Infantry School,
Military College, to establish a Strategic Studies Cell. He is currently serving as a
Military Observer on the Golan Heights with UNTSO, stationed in Tiberias.
9. Dr. Ray Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the Irish Centre for Human Rights,
National University of Galway, Ireland. He completed his B.A. in Political Science
and Legal Science in 1979, and then took a Bachelor in Law (LL.B.) degree in
1981. He studied at Kings Inns in Dublin where he completed a B.L. degree and was
called to the Irish bar in 1984. He completed a Masters degree in International Law
(M.Litt.) at Dublin University (Trinity College) in 1991. In 2001 he completed his
Ph.D. in International Law at the University of Nottingham in England. In addition to
his position at the Irish Centre for Human Rights, Dr. Murphy is on the faculty of the
Pearson Peacekeeping Center, the International Institute for Criminal Investigations
and the International Institute of Humanitarian Law at San Remo, Italy. He also
lectures on international humanitarian law for the International Committee of the
Red Cross. Dr Murphy was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in 2006 and worked with
Human Rights Watch in New York as a resident scholar. He is a former Captain in
the Irish Defence Forces and he served as an infantry officer with the Irish contingent
of UNIFIL in Lebanon in 1981/82 and again in 1989. He practiced as a barrister
for a short period before taking up his current appointment at Galway University.
He has field experience with the OSCE in Bosnia in 1996 and 1997. He has also
worked on short assignments in west and southern Africa and the Middle East for
Amnesty International, the European Union and the Irish Government. A specialist
in peace support operations, Dr Murphy founded and directs the master’s level
programme in the area of peacekeeping, which has been in place at the Centre since
September 2002. Dr Murphy lectures in International Peace Support Operations and
International Humanitarian Law. He has published widely in these fields. His latest
book, Peacekeeping in Lebanon, Somalia and Kosovo: Operational and Legal Issues
in Practice, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007.
10. Anthony Foley is a barrister and served in Bosnia and Herzegovina as Legal Adviser
and Head of Legal Affairs to the European Union in Mostar and subsequently served
as Human Rights Officer and Director of Return and Reconstruction with the United
Nations Office of the High Representative in Southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
He served with the Department of Defence for twenty seven years and is the author
of a number of books. He was co-author of “The Irish Constitution - an Annotated
Edition”, an examination principally of the referendum process in Ireland and has
recently finished a book on Herzegovina and its history and on the position of the
Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is also the author of many articles.
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