Laoise de Brún BL

In 2025 I ran as an Independent Candidate for the Trinity Panel in the Seanad Elections. You can watch me discuss my work in the hustings here

I am a practising barrister in crime, civil and family and based in the CCJ and throughout Leinster.

I having written for the Law Society Gazette on Hate Crime legislation here

I have produced a campaign video These Words Belong to Us

which forced a climbdown by Government on their proposed retroractive amendment of primary legislation to remove the word ‘woman’ from Maternity Protection legislation.

You can watch my speech on hate crime legislation in particular the chasm between the European Council Framework which gave rise to it and the proposed bill here

You can watch my presentation on the law and gender self-ID at the Genspect conference here

You can listen to me debate the conflict of rights between trans ideology and the rights of women and children in light of the Trump Executive Order on Newstalk here

You can hear my analysis of the UK Supreme Court ruling on Newstalk Hard Shoulder here

I am the CEO and Founder of an organisation called The Countess  which I founded in 202o to protect the legal rights of women to their own services and spaces and to promote child safeguarding as well as the rights of parents and the LGB community. I never intended to become an activist but I felt compelled to act when a dangerous sexual predator was sent to the womens’ wing of Limerick prison on foot of a piece of paper, a gender recognition certificate, declaring him to be a female. He has since admitted in open Court to threatening to rape and torture a female inmate and a female guard. I have drafted legislation The Gender Recognition ( Amendment) (Prisons) Bill 2023 to unlatch the effect of the scope of the gender recognition certificate Gender Recognition Act s.18 from the Prison rules thereby ending the practise of placing men who say there are women in female prison in line with the recent apex decision of our neighbouring jurisdiction which ruled that a gender recognition certificate does not change one’s sex in respect of equality legislation and the protective rights that reside in the gender ground exemptions.

In 2025 I ran as an Independent Candidate for the Trinity Panel in the Seanad Elections. You can watch me discuss my work in the hustings here