Carol Sinnott

Ms Sinnott is the principal of Sinnott Solicitors, a firm specialising in asylum and immigration law based in Dublin and Cork.

The IILA was founded in 2021 by solicitors specialising in immigration law to promote and improve advice and representation in immigration, citizenship, asylum and EU free movement of persons law through CPD events and information-sharing.

Recently the IILA established working groups to represent its membership in negotiating and liaising with the Department of Justice and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment with a particular focus on improving access for lawyers representing their clients through the recently-introduced application portal systems.

Ms Sinnott is joined on the new committee for 2025/26 by:

• Eimear Nugent of Berkeley Solicitors;
• Louise Corrigan of Louise M. Corrigan Solicitors;
• Eoghan McMahon of McGrath Mullan LLP Solicitors;
• Albert Llussa of Daly Lynch Crowe & Morris Solicitors LLP;
• Helen Moakley of Gibson & Associates;
• Hiro Ino of Hiro Ino Solicitors;
• Eoin Joyce of Joyce & Co Solicitors;
• Reza Nezam of RNL Solicitors;
• Kelly Coyle of Thomas Coughlan & Co Solicitors;
• Kim Bowen of Mason Hayes & Curran LLP;
• Ángel Bello-Cortés, in-house solicitor at Fragomen Ireland Limited;
• Shehzad Bajwa of Bajwa Solicitors;
• Cristina Stametescu of CSHR Solicitors;
• Hugh McCabe of Hugh McCabe Solicitors;
• Tom Coughlan of Thomas Coughlan & Co Solicitors (ex officio); and
• Jesie Caudwell Kenny of Berkeley Solicitors (ex officio);

Membership of the IILA is open to fully-qualified immigration solicitors who hold practising certificates issued by the Law Society of Ireland, working for both applicants and the State.

Associate membership is open to trainee solicitors, legal executives and staff working under the supervision of a solicitor member of the association.

Applications for membership can be made by applying through the IILA website or by email to info@iila.ie.

The association is holding its annual in-person conference at the Law Society of Ireland on Friday 5 December 2025 from 2pm to 6pm.