In her day to day practice, Deirdre advises on all aspects of employment, equality and industrial relations law. Appearing regularly before the Workplace Relations Commission, the Courts and the Data Protection Commission on behalf of clients, Deirdre is an experienced, robust and practical advocate. In recent years, Deirdre developed a niche practice in the areas of employment and data protection with particular experience in dealing with contentious data subject access requests, employment related privacy data breaches, regulatory investigations by the Data Protection Commission and enforcement actions involving criminal sanctions in the data protection space.
Significant and important data retention issues arise in the Graham Dwyer case referred by the Supreme Court to the CJEU on 24 February 2020. Deirdre Crowley and Denise Moran, Matheson, address the potential implications of this referral on public and also on private sector employers.
On 24 February 2020, the seven judge Supreme Court delivered its highly anticipated judgment in the case of Graham Dwyer and the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána and others. Although this decision relates solely to the question of the validity of an Irish statute (the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 (2011 Act)) having regard to EU law, the focus on the retention of data, albeit in the context of a criminal
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