Richard Humphreys is the Labour Party Councillor for the Stillorgan Ward, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Group on the Council.

He has been elected as Vice-Chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee. He has also been elected as a member of the Memorials Committee, the Lord Edward Fitzgerald Memorial Fund, the Audit Committee, the Organisation, Procedure & Protocol Committee, the Transportation Strategic Policy Committee and the Waste and Water Services Strategic Policy Committee

Richard Humphreys is a Senior Counsel. He holds a BCL and LLM from the NUI (UCD) and a PhD from the University of Dublin. He was called to the Irish Bar in 1991 and the Inner Bar in 2009. He is also a member of the Northern Irish Bar and the English Bar by Middle Temple and is a Fellow of the RSA, RAS, ZSL and RGS.

He is the Legal Adviser to the Parliamentary Labour Party. He is Chairperson of the Architects Admissions Board of the Royal Institute of Architects in Ireland, and is a member of the Criminal Law Codification Advisory Committee. He is also an adjunct part-time lecturer in law in NUI Galway. He is also the Statute Law Revision Project Manager for the Office of the Attorney General.

He is the author of two books, Index to Irish Statutory Instruments (Dublin, 1988) and Countdown to Unity: Debating Irish Reunification (Irish Academic Press, 2008) and various articles in legal journals.

Previously he was a member of the Independent Appeals Tribunal under the Prisons Act 2007 (2008-10) and was Leas Cathaoirleach of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council for 2009-10 and Chairperson of the Dundrum Area Committee (2010-11). He was a member of the Balance in the Criminal Law Review Group (2006-07) and lectured in law at TCD (part-time, 2006-07) UCD (1991-93) and UCC (1990-91).

From 1993-97 he worked in Government as Special Adviser to the Minister for Equality and Law Reform.

He grew up in Mount Merrion and has lived in South Dublin all his life. He studied in St Michael's College, UCD (within the Stillorgan Ward), King's Inns and Trinity College. His mother Deirdre and late father Dick Humphreys were active in the Mount Merrion community for many decades.

Richard's political CV:

• 2 July 2011 - Elected as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Group on DLR County Council
• 6 September 2010 - Elected as Chairperson of the Dundrum Area Committee
• 19 June 2009 - Elected as Leas Cathoirleach of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
• 5 June 2009 - Elected to Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
• 25 September 2008 - Selected to contest the Stillorgan Ward for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council

• Great Grandfather, James O'Mara, MP and subsequently TD for Dublin South. Home Rule MP for Kilkenny South 1900-1907, Sinn Fein TD for Kilkenny South 1918-1921, first Irish Ambassador to the US 1922, TD for Dublin South 1924-1927
• Great Grandfather Alderman Michael Flanagan, Dublin Poor Law Guardian from 1885 onwards, Irish Parliamentary Party councillor and subsequently Alderman on Dublin Corporation 1884-1919
• Great Great Grandfather James Humphrys, Limerick Poor Law Guardian from 1882
• Great Great Grandfather Richard Rahilly (Richard was a family name going back to c. 1700), JP and member of the Board of Guardians of Listowel. He died in 1896 of pneumonia caught when returning from a meeting of the Board.
• Great Great Grandfather Alderman Stephen O'Mara MP, Town Councillor from at least 1884, Mayor of Limerick 1885 and 1886, Home Rule MP for Queen's County Ossory 1886, High Sheriff of Limerick City 1888, Alderman of Limerick from at least 1889, Limerick Poor Law Guardian, Sheriff of Limerick 1913 and 1914, Senator 1925-1926
• Great Great Great Grandfather Cllr James O'Mara, JP, member of Limerick Board of Guardians from at least 1887, High Sheriff of Limerick 1887, Town Councillor from at least 1892