Ciaran is Irish-born but has spent much of his life living in Germany and working as a  German lawyer.  From 2007 to 2009 Ciaran was a senior visiting member of faculty at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, lecturing on International Business, Globalization, EU Government & Politics.  He returned to Ireland in the summer of 2009 to practise law and started teaching for Champlain College Dublin in the Fall of 2009.