Arlene is a graduate of Law and French at Trinity College Dublin, and has been a practising barrister in Ireland since 2020. She entered the Bar as a 2019 recipient of the Denham Fellowship, which aims to support aspiring barristers from socio-economically disadvantaged backgrounds to build their practice at the Bar.
Arlene has a particular interest in immigration and asylum law. She has recently completed an Advanced Diploma in Immigration and Asylum Law at Kings’ Inns as a recipient of the Immigration, Asylum and Citizenship Bar Association’s annual bursary, and is currently serving as a legal panel member at the International Protection Office (Department of Justice).