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Department of government and politics phd programme.

The Department of Government and Politics offers a three year PhD, involving in-depth research under the supervision of a member of academic staff. This may be taken full-time over three years or part-time over six years.

Our staff have a wide range of research interests, from political parties and elections, to the European Union and Northern Ireland, to political philosophy and deliberative democracy, to political economy and international conflict, and to gender politics and local government. More information is available on staff members’ individual webpages, available here .

Candidates for the PhD must usually have obtained at least Second Class Honours, Grade I, at a relevant primary degree examination.

The progress of PhD students is monitored by a Graduate Studies Committee, chaired by the PhD Director. Over the course of the academic year, PhD students attend the Department of Government and Politics seminar series, and are required to make at least one presentation of their research to this forum. Methodology seminars are also provided during the year to support the research process. PhD students are treated as members of the Department’s research community and are assigned to one of the Department’s two core research clusters (Irish Politics; International Relations/EU/Political Theory). These clusters meet regularly to discuss research, collaborative projects and funding applications.

From October 2013 all incoming PhD/PhD track students register for a structured PhD. The UCC model of structured PhD education comprises a programme of supportive and developmental elements, with a stated minimum level of 15 credits of coursework and training. In addition, all students are supervised by a supervisory team, or have a sole supervisor and a PhD advisor. In the Team Model there are two or more staff members with responsibility for the direction of the student’s research. In the Advisor Model there is a sole supervisor and an Advisor who provides non-academic support and pastoral care to the student.

For a 3 year PhD, the maximum number of credits that can be undertaken is 30 credits. For a 4 year PhD, the maximum number of credits that can be undertaken is 90 credits.

Applications

Applications are accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year, but there are four start dates: October, January, April and July.

If you are interested in applying to undertake a PhD in the Department of Government and Politics, you need to submit an application, a central processing point for all applications to read for higher degrees at Irish universities. This application will include a research proposal of approximately 1,500-2,000 words. This document should indicate an area of research interest and a research question/issue to be addressed. In terms of identifying a research interest, applicants are encouraged to consult the web pages of Departmental academic staff and should feel free to contact individual members of the Department for assistance/advice. Applicants are also invited to contact the PhD Programme Director Dr Clodagh Harris ( [email protected] ) who will likewise be happy to advise on the drafting of research proposals. Please note that the proposal is a starting point and is likely to evolve and change during the course of the PhD programme.

Applicants should consider the following framework or structure when drafting the proposal:

▪   Title

▪   Research question/issue/hypothesis

▪   Research context/background

▪   Previous relevant research and/or literatures

▪   Proposed methodology e.g. desk-based research / interviews / participant-observation / focus groups / surveys, etc

▪   Research plan and timelines

▪   Draft bibliography

Steps in the Application Process:

(1) Contact PhD Director and potential supervisors to discuss draft research proposal/prospective application and inquire about any scholarship opportunities.

(2) Once a member of staff has agreed in principle to supervise your research, apply online through UCC's application system . Applications should be submitted at least three months before the desired start date (October, January, April, or July).

(3) Await decision. Decisions may take up to two months. Once a decision has been reached you will receive an email alert from the Postgraduate Application Centre to check your application status on the ‘My Account’ section of the online application system. It is important that you check your email regularly.

Application for our postgraduate programmes is online at www.ucc.ie/apply . Please check out the closing dates and entry requirements at Courses | University College Cork (ucc.ie) before making your application. The application fee is €50 (for up to two postgraduate programmes). You will be asked to upload documents to support your application as part of the application process. You can upload documents to the application portal once you have submitted your application. If you have any questions on the application process, please contact the Graduate Studies Office/ International Education Office through their  web enquiry form .

Further information about the application process can be found at  www.ucc.ie/apply ,   Study Research | University College Cork (ucc.ie)  and https://www.ucc.ie/en/cacsss/grads/future_postgrads/research_courses/phds/ .

Funding, Fees & Scholarships

Fees for the academic year as a full-time student are €5,770 (Home/EU) or €11,540 (International). PhD students are liable for the full fee for four years. Students registering for a fourth year of study, whose fees are not supported by external funding (e.g. through a government or research grant, or industry contract), may apply for a partial fee waiver.

There are a number of postgraduate scholarships available through UCC. Details of these are provided in the College Calendar: www.ucc.ie/calendar/scholarship/sch004. html

PhD Scholarship: Fee Waiver for Non-EU Nationals

This scholarship consists of a waiver of a portion of the normal fee. Non-EU students can apply for a scholarship on the same application form as for their PhD programme. This can be downloaded from the International Education Office webpage: www.ucc.ie/en/international

Irish Research Council

The Irish Research Council ( www.research.ie ) operates a suite of interlinked Research Schemes, such as the IRC Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarships and Government of Ireland Post-Doctoral Fellowships which fund research at pre- and post-doctoral levels.

A considerable number of students and staff have been successful in their applications to the IRC. The Graduate Studies Office provides grant preparation sessions on ‘Writing an IRC Postgraduate Scholarship Application’. Drop-in sessions are also provided for students prior to the submission date of the application where they can receive expert advice from academics. Attendance at these workshops and the one-on-one drop-in sessions is highly recommended.

NUI Travelling Studentships

These grants are available to NUI graduates in the Humanities and Social Sciences. For further information see  NUI Awards - Travelling Doctoral Studentships | National University of Ireland

Local Authority Grants

Applying to your local authority for a grant is another means of acquiring funding for your postgraduate study, although recent changes in the scheme have meant a reduction in the number of eligible applicants. Please visit the website of your local authority for more information or the Citizens Information Board which provides advice in terms of eligibility for these grants:  http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/

Further information about fees and funding is available here: Fees and Funding | University College Cork (ucc.ie) .

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Admission Requirements

We seek outstanding and motivated graduates from different disciplinary, cultural and educational backgrounds for entry to our doctoral programme. The research interests of staff cover a wide range of subject areas from transitions to democracy through political philosophy to the politics of electoral systems and the Department has gained international renown for its work in all of these areas.

Applications are particularly welcome from students who wish to conduct research in areas in which the Department has particular research strengths : comparative European politics, European Union politics and policies, European Law, Irish politics, public policies, electoral systems, political parties including extreme right parties, public opinion and electoral behaviour, the politics of international law, international organisations, and political theory. The Department also invites applications from students whose research develops innovative quantitative methods, such as the quantitative analysis of political texts, as this is another strong area of research among staff.

Application procedure and contacts

In your application you are required to indicate your proposed field of research.  You should, therefore look at the research page and the research profiles of staff members to see if one of the faculty members is a potential supervisor. Although we encourage preliminary contacts in advance of working up a research project, staff members are best able to respond to emails containing both a CV and a short research project proposal, including some discussion of the relevant scholarly literature. Much as we would like to take on every good student who applies, there are some topics that we simply do not have the expertise to supervise, and this can be cleared up by informal contact in advance of any formal application.

• All applicants must fulfil the College entry requirements
• International applicants must fulfil the international student entry requirements
• Applicants who have not been educated through the medium of English must fulfill the College Postgraduate English language requirements

Application Documentation:

Applicants must upload the following documentation via the online application portal (all documents must be supplied in English, or the original document plus official translation submitted):

• Copy of full and official academic transcript(s)
• Copy of degree certificate(s)
• Research Proposal
• Detailed CV
• Two academic references
• Valid English language test result (if applicable - see above)

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Many of the questions you might have prior to application should be answered on our Frequently Asked Questions page. If you have questions not dealt with there, these may be directed to the Course Administrator or Course Director of the PhD programme, Dr Alexander Held . Queries regarding application portal functionality and fees should be directed to Academic Registry .

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The Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences is an excellent choice for postgraduate students whose talents and interests lie in subjects such as history; sociology; politics; law; music and languages (English, Irish, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, TESOL). The Faculty offers particular research strengths in the following areas: Criminal Justice; Applied Language Studies; European Studies; Irish German Studies; Peace and Development Studies; International and Commercial Law; International Politics; Social Policy; Gender Studies; Utopian Studies; and Literary or Cultural Studies. Students can choose to do a research degree at Master of Arts/LLM or PhD level in any of these subjects or areas.

• If you enjoyed researching and writing your final year project / graduate thesis or your MA dissertation, then you might enjoy carrying out a more in-depth piece of research at MA (by research) or PhD level.
• FAHSS research students are part of a lively community; every student has his/her own research space with individual PC and desk;
• Funding is available to research students annually to take part in international conferences and carry out fieldwork/archival visits in Ireland and overseas;
• Research degrees develop a wide range of skills which are valued by employers (for example, excellent communication skills (written and oral), and critical/analytical skills);
• Our PhD and MA graduates are employed in a wide range of sectors: education, media and publishing, research and consultancy, civil and public service, business, non-governmental sector, creative arts and media, and politics and local government.

In addition to carrying out research, students enrolled on an MA by Research/PhD take part in generic/transferrable skills training, including, for example, research methodologies and statistics, interview skills and career planning, bibliographical management, academic writing and research networking.

MA by Research:

• A Master’s degree by thesis involves in-depth research on a topic leading to a thesis of 60,000 words over the course of one to two years.

MA by Research/PhD:

• Students may start an MA research thesis, but then apply to transfer to a PhD after their first year if research is expanding; or students may register for a PhD thesis directly.
• This involves in-depth research on a topic and an original contribution to knowledge, leading to a thesis of 100,000 words, examined by a viva voce exam. The PhD thesis generally takes 4 years to complete.
• Applicants will normally be expected to hold an Honours degree (minimum 2.1) or equivalent in a discipline appropriate to their area of proposed research.
• Entry points may differ for applicants with postgraduate qualifications. Please contact the Course Director for further information.

Fees for all postgraduate programmes are revised on an annual basis.  Detailed information on fee schedules and fee regulations is available on the Fees Office website.  

Payment by instalment is facilitated by the Fees Office. 

Please contact the Fees Office directly at [email protected] for details.

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The School of Law and Government at Dublin City University invites applications for its four-year fully funded PhD programme. Outstanding PhD candidates will be offered  fee waiver and a tax-free scholarship of €16,500 per annum  for four years. All applicants (including international applicants) will be automatically considered for funded studentships.

The School of Law and Government is a research active school with world-class faculty willing to supervise PhD students on topics in their areas of research. DCU regularly ranks among the top "100 under 50" universities as per Times Higher Education and hosts various research centres. The School is committed to embedding a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion, and to that end welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.   We invite applicants for PhD research in any area of law, European law, political science, international relations, and public policy. Applications are particularly welcome from applicants whose research interests are in areas in which scholars in the School of Law and Government conduct their research:  www.dcu.ie/lawandgovernment/people-law-and-government .

The School operates a full-time structured four-year PhD programme with a range of taught courses in the first year and further professional training offered in other years. The programme combines the rigour and professionalism of the largely taught US approach with the independence and imagination of the traditional European supervisory programme, and it is designed to prepare its students to conduct cutting-edge research and pursue successful academic careers. As well as a tax-free stipend, we may support our students with limited funding for conference and research travel. The School also gives its PhD students opportunities to contribute to teaching.

Prospective applicants should consult the webpages of members of staff to check if staff research interests match their proposed projects:  www.dcu.ie/lawandgovernment/people-law-and-government . Prospective applicants should make informal contact with the member of staff whose research area covers their proposed doctoral work in advance of an application. You can find additional information about doing a PhD in DCU at the faculty page:  www.dcu.ie/humanities-and-social-sciences/doctoral-studies-hub

The deadline for application for entry in September 2022 is 31 March. Following informal consultation with the relevant staff member, applicants should send 1) a full  CV with contact details for 2 referees , 2) the  grades  achieved in Masters degree with copies of transcripts, 3) and a  research proposal  (c. 2,000-3,000 words), also indicating their prospective supervisor, to:  [email protected]  by 17:00 GMT Thursday 31 st  March. Applications will be acknowledged by email. Candidates are not required to apply formally through the university system at this stage; they first will be first assessed internally by the school panel.

We intend to shortlist and interview selected candidates either in person or online over April and May at the latest. Successful candidates then will be required to apply formally to be admitted as PhD students and may also need to show proficiency in the English language. Successful candidates will begin their studies in September 2022 and are expected to be normally resident in Dublin for the duration of the programme.

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Below is a list of best universities in Ireland ranked based on their research performance in Political Science. A graph of 1.35M citations received by 82K academic papers made by 19 universities in Ireland was used to calculate publications' ratings, which then were adjusted for release dates and added to final scores.

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2. Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin

3. University College Cork

4. National University of Ireland, Galway

5. University of Limerick

6. Dublin City University

7. Maynooth University

8. Dublin Institute of Technology

9. Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

10. National University of Ireland, System

11. Waterford Institute of Technology

12. National College of Ireland

13. Dundalk Institute of Technology

14. Athlone Institute of Technology

15. Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology

16. Institute of Technology Sligo

17. Letterkenny Institute of Technology

18. Institute of Technology Carlow

19. Limerick Institute of Technology

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Now, as Kamala Harris is on the verge of making history as the presumptive Democratic nominee for president , her family is back in the spotlight. Here, her family tree—featuring the Harris, Gopalan, and Emhoff families, all the extended family of Vice President Harris:

Below, meet all the members of Kamala Harris's family.

Kamala's mom: Shyamala Gopalan

Kamala's husband: douglas "doug" emhoff, kamala's stepson: cole emhoff, kamala's stepdaughter: ella emhoff, kamala's sister: maya harris, kamala's niece: meena harris, kamala's dad: donald j. harris.

Donald J. Harris (b. August 23, 1938) was born in Brown's Town, Jamaica, to Oscar Joseph Harris and Beryl Christie Finegan , Afro-Jamaicans. Oscar's parents were, Joseph Alexander Harris and Christiana Brown . Christiana, who went by Chrisy, was reportedly the descendant of Hamilton Brown , a plantation and slave owner and founder of Brown's Town, Jamaica.

"As a child growing up in Jamaica, I often heard it said, by my parents and family friends: 'memba whe yu cum fram,'" Donald wrote in a 2019 essay in Jamaica Global . " To this day, I continue to retain the deep social awareness and strong sense of identity which that grassroots Jamaican philosophy fed in me. As a father, I naturally sought to develop the same sensibility in my two daughters."

"He was a brilliant student," Kamala writes in her memoir, The Truths We Hold , of her father. He studied at the University College of the West Indies, before earning his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of London in 1960. In 1960, he immigrated to the U.S. after being admitted to University of California at Berkeley, and he received his PhD from UC Berkley in 1966. At Berkeley, he met Shyamala Gopalan ( see below ). As Post-Keynesian economist and development theorist, he taught at University of Illinois, Northwestern, and University of Wisconsin, but he spent the majority of his career at Stanford University .

In 2021, he received the Order of Merit, a Jamaica National Award. "I think of myself as ‘a likkle country boy’ from Brown’s Town in St Ann who got started in life with a level of social awareness and sense of belonging and love of country that were given to me by my early upbringing in that little community," Donald told the Jamaica Observer in response to the honor. "It made me commit to a lifetime of study and learning and analysis to understand what accounts for the inequality that I continued to keenly observe in the conditions of economic life for people around me and in the world at large, and to search for public policies to improve those conditions. In that process I also sought to give back in terms of service to the country and community that brought me up. That remains today as a core value in my thinking and my work."

Shyamala Gopalan (b. December 7, 1938, d. February 11, 2009), was born in what was then Madras, British India (now Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India). Her father, P. V. Gopalan (b. 1911, d. 1998), was an Indian civil servant, and her mom Rajam Gopalan , was a community organizer. Shyamala has three younger siblings: G. Balachandran ("Balu"), an economist and computer scientist in New Dehli; Sarala, an obstetrician in Chennai; and Chinni, an information scientist in Ontario.

Kamala is close with her chitthis (aunts) Sarala and Chinni and her uncle Balu, shouting them out in her DNC address in 2020. "I was actually very touched," Chinni Subash said at the time. "I mean, with everything that she has to take care of these days ... I was very touched and very honored that she acknowledged us."

The Truths We Hold: An American Journey

Kamala often cites her mom, and her maternal grandparents as a major inspiration. "My mother had been raised in a household where political activism and civic leadership came naturally," she wrote in her memoir. "Her mother, my grandmother, Rajam Gopalan, had never attended high school, but she was a skilled community organizer. She would take in women who were being abused by their husbands, and then she’d call the husbands and tell them they’d better shape up or she would take care of them. She used to gather village women together, educating them about contraception. My grandfather P. V. Gopalan had been part of the movement to win India’s independence. Eventually, as a senior diplomat in the Indian government, he and my grandmother had spent time living in Zambia after it gained independence, helping to settle refugees. He used to joke that my grandmother’s activism would get him in trouble one day. But he knew that was never going to stop her. From them, my mother learned that it was service to others that gave life purpose and meaning. And from my mother, Maya and I learned the same."

Shyamala graduated from the University of Delhi when she was 19 years old in 1958, and immigrated to America to pursue a doctorate in endocrinology at University of California Berkeley, where she met Donald J. Harris. "She and my father met and fell in love at Berkeley while participating in the civil rights movement," Kamala writes in her memoir. "Her marriage—and her decision to stay in the United States—were the ultimate acts of self-determination and love." Shyamala and Donald divorced in the early 70s.

She earned her PhD in nutrition and endocrinology in 1965, and worked as a breast cancer researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, McGill University Faculty of Medicine, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She died in 2009 of colon cancer; Shyamala was 70 years old.

Douglas Emhoff (b. October 13, 1964) is the son of Jewish parents Barbara Kanzer and Michael Emhoff . He was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the New Jersey suburbs. He has two siblings, Jamie Emhoff and Andy Emhoff . At age 17, his family moved to Southern California, and he graduated from Agoura High School. He attended California State University, Northridge, graduation with a Bachelor of Arts degree in communication in 1987, then received his Juris Doctor from USC Gould School of Law in 1990.

In 1992, Doug married Kerstin Mackin (b. 1967); they divorced in 2008. They have two children, Cole Emhoff (b. 1994) and Ella Emhoff (b. 1999) ( see below ), named for John Coltrane and Ella Fitzgerald. In 2013, he was set up with Kamala on a date by her best friend, Chrisette. Kerstin and Kamala are friends, with Kamala writing in her memoir, "we sometimes joke that our modern family is almost a little two functional." Kamala and Doug married in August 2014, in a ceremony officiated by Kamala's sister Maya. "In keeping with our respective Indian and Jewish heritage, I put a flower garland around Doug's neck, and he stomped on a glass."

Doug is the first Jewish spouse of an American president or vice president, and the first ever Second Gentleman. He currently teaches at Georgetown Law.

Cole Emhoff (b. September 15, 1994) is the only son of Doug and Kerstin Emhoff. He graduated from Colorado College in 2017, and currently works as an executive assistant at Plan B Entertainment.

On October 14 2023, he married Greenley Littlejohn , who works as a global product development manager at Brand I.D. in Los Angeles. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Bachelor of Science in retail merchandising in 2017. Greenely's dad, Jeffrey Littlejohn , is a Professor of History at Sam Houston State University (SHSU).

Kamala officiated Greenley and Cole's wedding. "It meant so much for so many reasons," Harris said . "It was so wonderful that the kids asked me to do it. For us, we think of marriage as being not just between these two people, but the coming together of families. So it was very much with that spirit that we all participated."

She added, "I love my husband. I love our marriage. I want for those two [Cole and Greenley] to have a loving marriage where they are best friends and they know that it’s not just them against the world, that our family supports them. That the community of people that came together at the wedding supports [them]."

Ella Emhoff (b. May 29, 1999), the only daughter of Doug and Kerstin, is a model and fashion designer. Ella attended Parsons School of Design, where she majored in fine arts, and graduated in 2017. In 2021, she signed with IMG Models. IMG's president, Ivan Bart, said, "It’s not really about shape, size or gender any more. Ella communicates this moment in time. There’s a cheekiness and a joy she exudes."

"Growing up, I never saw myself as someone stylish, at all," she told Elle in 2021. "Obviously, I loved fashion and cared a lot about it. But I was really into doing my own thing and being really comfortable in my own body, you know? I never saw myself as a 'fashion person.' And I don’t know if my classmates did either! So now… [it feels] strange. But it also makes me feel really good, because I was able to stick with my true instincts when it came to style, and it actually I paid off!" She added, "It’s not the actual clothes you’re wearing. It’s the confidence you have, and the ability to live your life, in those clothes. In April 2022, she launched her own knitwear line , and in October 2023, she launched a knitting club .

Though her father is Jewish, Ella doesn't identify as Jewish. "Ella truly has no qualms with the faith, but she does not want to speak on behalf of Judaism, as she does not celebrate herself," a spokesperson said in 2021.

Maya Harris (b. January 30, 1967), is the younger daughter of Shyamala Gopalan and Donald Harris . She welcomed daughter, Meena Harris ( see below ), in 1984.

Maya received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley, in 1989, and then attended Stanford Law School, receiving her Juris Doctorate with distinction in 1992. After graduating, she clerked for District Court Judge James Ware, then worked in civil and criminal litigation. She became a law professor, teaching at University of San Francisco School of Law, U.C. Hatings College of the Law, and New College of California School of Law.

Maya also worked at PolicyLink, the Ford Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Center for American Progress. In 2016, she was a senior policy advisor on Hilary Clinton's presidential campaign, helping to draft the platform, and in 2020, she was chairwoman of her sister's campaign for president.

In July 1998, she married Tony West (b. 1965), her Stanford Law classmate, though they didn't begin dating until after graduating. West, the son of Margaret "Peggy" Reddick and Franklin "Frank" Delano West , is from San Francisco. He graduated from Harvard in 1987 before attending Stanford Law, and after graduating, he started working in Democratic politics. He started working for the Justice Department in 1993, and in 1994, was appointed as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the Northern District of California.

From 2001 to 2009, he was a partner at Morrison & Foerster LLP. In 2009, President Obama appointed West to serve as Assistant Attorney General of the Department of Justice Civil Division, and in 2013, he became Associate Attorney General. After leaving the Obama administration, he became a vice president at PepsiCo, and starting in 2017, he became General Counsel at Uber. He Instagrams as @meenasdad .

Kamala and Maya’s Big Idea

Meena Harris (b. October 20, 1984) is Maya Harris's only daughter; Maya had her when she was just 17 years old. Growing up in Oakland, Meena attended Bishop O'Dowd High School. She graduated from Stanford in 2006. In 2012, she received her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

In 2017, Meena founded Phenomenal , a consumer and media company that "elevates the stories of women and underrepresented communities through entertainment, digital content, brand partnerships, book clubs, and more." She also authored children's books, including Kamala and Maya's Big Idea , about her mom and aunt, and is a Tony-award winning producer for A Strange Loop . She also produced Suffs.

In 2014, Meena married Nikolas "Nik" Ajagu , who worked as the Global Head of Partnerships at Facebook until 2019. Nik and Meena met back in 2007 while they both worked at Facebook. They have two daughters: Amara Ajagu (b. 2016) and Leela Ajagu (b. 2018).

In the acknowledgements in her memoir, Kamala writes, "Meena, I remember you at two years old, walking around the house, literally in my shoes. Now you're a leader in your own right who has forged an important path and whose advice I cherish. Thank you for everything, especially for my baby nieces, Amara and Leela, and their amazing dad, Nik."

Emily Burack (she/her) is the Senior News Editor for Town & Country, where she covers entertainment, culture, the royals, and a range of other subjects. Before joining T&C, she was the deputy managing editor at Hey Alma , a Jewish culture site. Follow her @emburack on Twitter and Instagram .

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Hawaii man killed self after police took DNA sample in Virginia woman’s 1991 killing

FILE - A court officer removes Albert “Ian” Schweitzer’s handcuffs following the judge’s decision to release him from prison immediately, after spending more than 20 years in prison, Jan. 24, 2023, in Hilo, Hawaii. A man who was identified as a new suspect in the murder and sexual assault of a woman visiting Hawaii more than three decades ago committed suicide after police took a DNA swab from him, but before he could be arrested, attorneys said in court filings late Sunday, July 28, 2024.. The DNA work represented a major development in a case that was in the headlines last year when Schweitzer, ,a man who’d been incarcerated for more than 20 years for the murder, was released based on fresh evidence. (Marco Garcia/The Innocence Project via AP Images, File)

FILE - Hawaii Innocence Project co-director Kenneth Lawson, back center, and law students go over files related to the 1991 murder of Dana Ireland in Honolulu, Jan. 17, 2023. A new suspect was identified in connection with the 1991 murder but because police didn’t arrest the man, he killed himself last week, Innocence Project attorneys said in court documents filed Sunday, July 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, File)

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HONOLULU (AP) — A man who was identified as a new possible suspect in the killing and sexual assault of a Virginia woman who was visiting Hawaii more than three decades ago killed himself recently after police took a DNA swab from him, officials said.

The Hawaii Police Department on Monday said they matched DNA taken from Dana Ireland’s body to that of 57-year-old Albert Lauro Jr. of Hawaiian Paradise Park on the Big Island. Police Chief Ben Moszkowicz said Lauro died by suicide and was found at home.

Authorities zeroed in on Lauro in recent months and got a DNA sample from him off of a discarded fork after they watched him eat lunch. He killed himself last week after police went to his home to test the sample against a swab taken from him in person.

Attempts by the AP to reach Lauro’s relatives were unsuccessful.

The DNA work represented a major development in a case that made headlines last year when Albert “Ian” Schweitzer, who had been incarcerated for more than 20 years for the killing, was released based on new evidence. Ireland’s body was found on Christmas Eve in 1991 on Hawaii’s Big Island.

Schweitzer was one of three men who spent time behind bars over her killing, but he always maintained his innocence. A judge is expected to rule Tuesday on a motion to officially exonerate him.

Police said the DNA evidence gave them probable cause to bring rape charges against Lauro but the statute of limitations on such charges expired years ago. Murder is still within the statute of limitations for Ireland’s death but police said they didn’t have enough evidence to charge Lauro with murder.

“The presence of Lauro’s DNA at the crime scene was, in and of itself, not sufficient evidence to prove that Lauro intentionally or knowingly caused her death,” Moskowicz said at a news conference livestreamed from Hilo.

Police hope Lauro’s cellphone will provide some answers and that family and friends who knew him in 1991 and now will help police determine what happened, Moskowicz said.

Schweitzer’s attorneys took the police to task, alleging that they intentionally botched the investigation into Lauro by not taking steps to ensure that he didn’t flee or kill himself after they obtained his DNA. They suggested that because of the man’s death, the truth about what happened to Ireland will never come to light. They also demanded a federal investigation, as well as all communications related to the DNA work.

“We knew that he had a family. He had a good life,” Innocence Project co-founder Barry Scheck, who is assisting the Hawaii Innocence Project in Schweitzer’s case, said of Lauro. “It’s well known in law enforcement circles … if you have DNA on a guy and you know he committed the crime, that if you do not bring him into custody, there is a serious chance that the person will flee, destroy evidence or kill themself.”

Moskowicz said if police arrested Lauro without probable cause, a court wouldn’t have accepted evidence they gathered afterward.

He denied police sabotaged the case.

“That is abjectly false, 100% not true,” he said, adding the police would follow the evidence wherever it goes.

Mayor Mitch Roth, who was the Big Island’s top prosecutor when Schweitzer’s attorneys and prosecutors entered into a “conviction integrity agreement” to reinvestigate the case, said Monday that he stands behind the police and noted that the results from the swab they collected didn’t come in until after Lauro died.

Lauro hadn’t been on law enforcement’s radar when Roth was prosecutor: “I don’t recall ever seeing this person in any of the police reports when I went over the case.”

Moskowicz said Lauro was arrested once in 1987 for shoplifting when he was about 20 years old.

The push to find out who killed Ireland gained renewed traction after the January 2023 release of Schweitzer, who was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to 130 years in prison. Innocence Project lawyers who took up his case argued that he didn’t match the DNA on a T-shirt found near Ireland. The shirt didn’t belong to Ireland but was soaked with her blood and contained DNA from an unknown man.

Even though Schweitzer was released, his legal team and prosecutors have continued to quibble over whether he’s actually innocent and deserves compensation for his years behind bars.

Schweitzer’s Innocence Project attorneys tracked down a DNA match with help from Steven Kramer, a retired FBI attorney and federal prosecutor who led the genetic genealogy team that solved the Golden State Killer case in 2018. Kramer found a match, based on genetics, ancestry, age, and address history, among other factors.

Lauro, according to Innocence Project court filings filed Sunday, lived less than 2 miles (3.2 kilometers) from where Ireland’s body was found along a fishing trail in a remote part of the Big Island. He would have been in his mid-20s at the time and owned or had access to a pickup truck that would have left the tire marks found at the scene, the filings said.

Innocence Project attorneys looked up his Facebook page and saw that he was still an avid fisherman and would have been familiar with the trail where Ireland was found.

On Monday, the attorneys called for a federal investigation into why police didn’t arrest Lauro, saying they had probable cause to do so. In their filing, they ask for police and prosecutors turn over all communications about the decision not to seek an arrest warrant after the DNA from Lauro’s fork was tested. They also want to know why he wasn’t arrested before or after police took the DNA swab.

A 2023 petition filed in the quest to release Schweitzer, the last of the three Native Hawaiian men who remained imprisoned in the killing, outlined the case, which was one of Hawaii’s most notorious.

Ireland, who was 23 years old and visiting from Virginia, was found barely alive in the bushes along a fishing trail in Puna, a remote section of the island. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten, and later died at Hilo Medical Center. The mangled bicycle she had been riding was found several miles (kilometers) away and appeared to have been run into by a vehicle.

The killing remained unsolved for years.

A man named Frank Pauline Jr., who claimed to have witnessed the attack, told police that Schweitzer and his brother, Shawn Schweitzer, attacked and killed Ireland. But he was interviewed at least seven times and gave inconsistent accounts each time, eventually incriminating himself, leading prosecutors to indict Pauline as well as the Schweitzers.

Pauline and Ian Schweitzer were convicted in 2000. Shawn Schweitzer took a deal to plead guilty to manslaughter and kidnapping — and receive credit for about a year served and five years of probation — after seeing juries convict Pauline and his brother in 2000. Pauline died in prison.

The Schweitzer brothers “are happy that this person was finally caught,” said Kenneth Lawson, co-director of the Hawaii Innocence Project. “They’re disappointed in the way it happened.”

Associated Press journalist Audrey McAvoy contributed to this report.