Maurice Manning (born 14 June 1943) is an Irish academic and former Fine Gael politician.

[1] On 12 March 2009 he was elected Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, while remaining president of the Human Rights Commission.

Manning was born in Bagenalstown, County Carlow, and educated at Presentation De La Salle College there.

It was reported that this may have been related to a dispute with the Fine Gael Chairman, Senator Pádraic McCormack, whom Manning had threatened to challenge for the chairmanship.

[9] The IHRC has also represented the European Group within the Bureau of the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions,[10] the global network of NHRIs closely associated with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.