Eugene Regan

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Eugene Regan SC was elected for the first time to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland on 11 June 2004. Regan, along with former politicians Seán Barrett and John Bailey, has been selected as a Fine Gael candidate to stand in the next next Irish general election in Dún Laoghaire (Dáil Éireann constituency). Notably, he received the support of former Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald who intervened in a general election for the first time since leaving the Dáil in 1992. Regan became Cathaoirleach, or Mayor, of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council on 12 June 2006.

During a career which began as a stagiaire (an unpaid volunteer) to Commissioner Patrick Hillery in 1973, Regan worked with Alan Dukes in the mid-1970s as an economist for the IFA in Dublin and Brussels.

Regan served in the cabinet of Peter Sutherland when the latter was EU Commissioner for Social Affairs and Competition. Following his return to Ireland from Brussels, he spent eight years as general manager of Agra Trading, a Dublin based company that trades agricultural produce internationally.

Regan qualified as a barrister in 1985, commenced practice in 1995 and became a senior counsel in 2005. He specialises in European law cases, many with a competition, state aid or agricultural dimension.

An ardent pro-European, he is Chairman of the Lawyers Group and Project Leader of the Justice and Home Affairs Group in the Irish Institute of European Affairs (IIEA), and has contributed to many publications on European law matters, both legal and media. He was also an advocate and campaigner in the Amsterdam Treaty and Nice Treaty referenda campaigns.

Eugene Regan lives in Monkstown, Co Dublin with his Danish-born wife, Kista and two daughters, Naja and Caroline.