Eoin is currently employed in the School of Law as a Youth Justice Researcher. Eoin was previously a manager in one of Ireland's biggest youth service providers, Limerick Youth Service, and has coordinated and managed a number of youth initiatives and services for young offenders in Limerick over a ten-year period.

He holds an Honours Degree in Applied Social Studies, an MA in Criminology from DIT and his practice experience has resulted in various other certification: facilitation training, train the trainer and supervision theory and practice, all level 5 FETAC certs.

Eoin’s research expertise lies in the area of youth crime, youth crime prevention, youth offender programmes and youth justice. His MA thesis was a case study that focused on the area of 'desistance' or the cessation of offending, and how some young adults were able to stay away from crime despite being heavily involved in their younger years. This was titled, A Case Study of Youth Crime Desistance in a Disadvantaged Area and focused on complex ex-offenders striving to 'make good' in one of Ireland’s ‘disadvantaged’ communities. 

Eoin will undertake a process evaluation of the community efficacy strand of a new evidence informed Irish programme for young people caught up in adult criminal networks. Using a case study design and a mixed methods approach, this research will examine and evaluate the implementation process of the community efficacy strand of a new evidence-informed Irish programme for children and young people caught up in adult criminal networks.

The project will establish the normative standards in ideal models of community efficacy in youth crime interventions as disclosed by the literature and gauge the path to how the community efficacy strand was implemented in the case study location.