Irish FBI agent hails college lectures for career

A Kerry native from the town of Ardfert is making waves as a member of one of the world’s most famous law enforcement agencies, the FBI.

Deaglán Ryan, a 1995 UCC graduate in applied psychology, is based at the agency’s New York office where he says “small pieces of history are made every day”.

Having moved to California after college in the mid-1990s, where he first joined the organisation begun by the legendary J Edgar Hoover, he admits it is a career full of “interesting possibilities with no two days ever the same”.