M. J. Nolan
Question:161 Mr. Nolan asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs the names of all board appointments made by him for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8718/06]
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Questions (161, 162)
Written answers
Since my appointment as Minister for Foreign Affairs on 29 September 2004, I made the following board appointments. The advisory board of Ireland Aid was established in August 2002. The name of the board was subsequently changed to the Advisory Board for Development Co-operation Ireland in September 2003. In November 2005, the board was reconstituted and the following people were appointed.
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Chris Flood |
Former Dáil Deputy and Minister of State. Irish representative to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. |
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Mr. David Andrews |
Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Irish Red Cross Society. Former Government Minister. |
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Mr. David Begg |
General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Former Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide. |
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Mr. Denis Cahalane |
Director of Social Inclusion, Health Service Executive, HSE, County Louth. Chairperson of Dundalk Employment Partnership. |
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Dr. Abdullahi El-Tom |
Lecturer, Department of Anthropology at NUI Maynooth. |
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Ms Detta Fanning |
Partner in Detta Communications and expert in business development and marketing. |
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Ms Fumi Anike Guiwa-Byrne |
Managing Director of Anike Ireland. Involved with the UK telethon fundraising event from 1987 to 1995. |
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Mr. Eamonn Meehan |
Deputy Director and Head of Communications and Education Department of Trócaire. |
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Fr. Gerard O’Connor |
Redemptorist priest. Previously worked with GOAL in Africa. |
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Mr. Larry O’Loughlin |
Head of Public Relations with Teagasc. Board member of Self Help Development International. |
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Ms Anne O’Mahony |
Regional Director with Concern Worldwide, based in Dublin. Serves on the board of EuronAid, a European NGO food security network. |
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Ms Maura Quinn |
Executive Director, UNICEF Ireland. |
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Ms Lorraine Sweeney |
Businessperson. Former chairperson of the Small Firms Association. |
I appointed two new members to the advisory board in February 2006.
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Name |
Background |
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Ms Marie Brady |
Former Religious Education teacher. Assistant Chief Inspector for Religious Education in the Department of Education of Northern Ireland |
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Ms Geraldine Wall |
Senior executive officer with Catholic Youth Care |
The development education advisory committee, DEAC, was set up in 2003 to offer policy advice to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Development Co-operation Ireland on development education and on ways to increase knowledge and understanding of development issues in Ireland. The following members were appointed to the committee in 2005.
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Name |
Background |
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Dr. Peadar Ó Croimín |
President Mary Immaculate College, Limerick |
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Mr. Peter Johnson |
Education Officer for Educational Disadvantage, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment |
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Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick |
Senior Inspector, Department of Education and Science |
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Mr. Conor Sludds |
Manager, Community Training Centre, Finglas |
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Mr. Brendan Hester |
Deputy Principal, Inchicore College of Further Education |
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Dr. David Irwin |
Head of Department of Humanities Institute of Technology Tallaght |
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Ms Moira Leydon |
Assistant General Secretary, Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland, ASTI |
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Ms Mercy Ebun Peters * |
Co-ordinator, Association of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Ireland |
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Mr. Liam Kilbride |
Education Development Officer, Presentation Education Office |
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Mr. David Joyce |
Development Education Officer, Irish Congress of Trade Unions |
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Ms Mary McGillicuddy |
Co-ordinator, Kerry Action for Development Education, KADE |
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Dr. Colm Regan |
Co-ordinator 80:20, Educating and Acting for a Better World |
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Mr. John Daly |
Communications and Fundraising Manager, Actionaid Ireland |
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Ms June Barry |
Education Officer Ógra Chorcaí— Youth Organisation based in Cork |
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Professor Sheelagh Drudy |
Head of Education Department, University College Dublin |
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Mr. Michael Doorly |
Development Education Manager, Concern and Chairperson, Development Education Working Group, Dóchas |
* Mercy Ebun Peters resigned on 10 January 2006 and was replaced on 23 February by Ms Angela McCormack, public relations and events management consultant.
In September 2005, I appointed Ambassador Anne Anderson, Ambassador of Ireland to France, to the Conseil d'Administration — Administration Council — of the Fondation Irlandaise, which formally administers the Irish College in Paris, in place of Ambassador MacKernan, who has since retired. In October 2004, I appointed Ms Maggie Doyle, a Paris based literary agent, to the college's board of management in place of Professor Prionsias Mac Cana, since deceased.
The Ireland — United States Commission for Educational Exchange, the Fulbright Commission, finances study, research, teaching and other educational activities between Ireland and the United States of America. I appointed the following members to the commission for the 2004-06 period.
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Name |
Background |
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Dr. Donal Thornhill |
Former Chairperson, Higher Education Authority |
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Prof. Joyce O’Connor |
President, National College of Ireland |
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Ms Una Halligan |
Government and Public Affairs Director, Hewlett Packard |
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Dr. Tom Collins |
Director, Dundalk Institute of Technology, DKIT |
In the period January 2001 to September 2004, when my predecessor, Deputy Cowen, was Minister for Foreign Affairs, the following appointments were made to the following boards.
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Desmond O’Malley |
Former Government Minister and former Chair of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs. |
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Mr. Chris Flood |
Former Dáil Deputy and Minister of State. Irish representative to the European Commission Against Racism and Intolerance. |
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Mr. David Andrews |
Chairperson of the Executive Committee of the Irish Red Cross Society. Former Government Minister. |
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Mr. David Begg |
General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. Former Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide. |
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Ms Sally O’Neill |
Trócaire’s Regional Director for Central America, based in Honduras. |
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Ms Lorraine Sweeney |
Businessperson. Former Chairperson of the Small Firms Association. |
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Mr. Larry O’ Loughlin |
Head of Public Relations, Teagasc. Board member of Self Help Development International. |
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Mr. Howard Dalzell |
Concern Worldwide, Director of Policy Development and Evaluation Unit. |
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Fr. Gerard O’Connor |
Redemptorist priest. Previously worked with GOAL in Africa. |
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Mr. Jerry Liston |
Executive Chairman, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. |
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Ms Morina O’Neill |
Development Education Officer with Comhlámh. Previously worked as a development worker in Belize. |
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Mr. Pádraig McManus |
Chief Executive, Electricity Supply Board of Ireland. Worked in West Africa for a number of years. |
The advisory board was chaired by Mr. Desmond O'Malley from August 2002 until July 2003. Mr. Chris Flood was appointed chairperson in September 2003.
The following were appointed to the development education advisory committee, DEAC, on its inception in 2003.
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Name |
Background |
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Dr. Peadar Ó Croimín |
President, Mary Immaculate College |
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Mr. Michael Doorly |
Development Education Manager, Concern and Chair of Development Education Working Group, Dóchas |
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Ms Morina O’Neill |
Education Officer, Comhlámh |
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Ms June Barry |
Education Officer, Ogra Chorcai — Youth Organisation based in Cork |
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Fr. PJ Gormley |
Superior, SMA Fathers |
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Mr. Robert Kirkpatrick |
Senior Inspector, Department of Education and Science |
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Mr. Peter Johnson |
Education Officer for Educational Disadvantage, National Council for Curriculum and Assessment, NCCA |
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Rev. Sahr Yambasu |
Methodist Minister in Galway. Part-time chaplain in UCG and works with various refugee groups. |
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Ms Jacqui Harrison |
Director of Social Policy, IBEC |
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Ms Alisa Keane |
Originally employed by ICTU, now with NGO sector |
On 20 March 2001, the following were appointed to the Conseil d'Administration — Administration Council — of the Fondation Irlandaise in Paris.
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Jean Bijasson |
Director of an asset management and a property management company in Paris |
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Ms Jennifer Campbell |
Secretary and incoming Chairperson of the Friends of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast |
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Very Rev. Hugh Connolly, STD |
Vice President of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth |
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Mr. Seamus Crimmins |
Head of Lyric FM |
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Mr. William J. Glynn |
Retired banker |
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Mr. Patrick Mac Entee |
Senior Counsel |
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Mr. Patrick O’Connor |
then Ambassador of Ireland to France |
In May 2003, Minister Cowen appointed the following to the Conseil d' Administration and the board of management of the Fondation Irlandaise.
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Jean Bijasson (Secretary) |
Director of an asset management and a property management company in Paris |
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Ms Jennifer Campbell (Treasurer) |
Secretary and Chairperson of the Friends of the Linen Hall Library, Belfast |
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Very Rev. Hugh Connolly STD |
Vice President of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth |
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Very Rev. Thomas O’Connor |
Representative of St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth |
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Mr. Fiach Mac Conghail, |
Director, Abbey Theatre |
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Mr. Patrick Mc Entee |
Senior Counsel |
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Ambassador Pádraic Mac Kernan |
then Ambassador of Ireland to France |
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Name |
Background |
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Ms Áine Ades |
Tourism Ireland |
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Ms Doireann Ní Bhriain |
Imaginaire Irlandais and Cultural Consultant, Culture Ireland |
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Very Rev Brendan Devlin |
Recteur, College des Irlandais, Paris |
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Mr. Eugene Downes |
Cultural Consultant |
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Mr. Pierre Joannon |
Honorary Consul, Antibes |
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Professor Prionsias Mac Cana |
School of Cetic Studies, Institute for Advanced Studies |
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Mr. Patrick Thomas |
Counsellor, French Embassy, Dublin |
In February 2003, the budgetary allocation for the DION committee on emigrant support in Britain was transferred to the Department of Foreign Affairs from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. The DION committee has come under the aegis of my Department since then. The following were appointed or reappointed to the DION committee on 1 September 2004.
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Séamus McGarry |
Former Chair of the Federation of Irish Societies |
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Dr. Breda Gray |
Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Limerick |
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Mr. Jim O’ Hara |
Chairman, Irish Youth Foundation, UK |
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Mr. Michael Forde |
Managing Director, Ceiling Grids Group, Manchester and Chairman, Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester |
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Dr. Theresa Joyce |
South London and Maudsley NHS Trust |
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Ms Catherine Quinn |
Member of the then Eastern Health Board and Dublin Vocational Education Committee, VEC |
The chair and secretary of the committee are serving officials in the Embassy of Ireland in London.
The Irish Refugee Agency was created in 1991. Board members were appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs for two year periods and boards were composed of an independent chairperson and representatives of relevant Departments connected with the admission of refugees to Ireland. Observers also attended on behalf of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, UNHCR, a number of voluntary agencies and individuals active in the field of refugee welfare. The Refugee Agency ceased operation and was integrated in April 2001 into the Reception and Integration Agency, which operates under the aegis of the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The following were appointed to the board of the Irish Refugee Agency in the 2000-01 period.
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Name |
Background |
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Ms Anne Colley (Chairperson) |
Solicitor |
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Sr. Phil Sinnott |
Sacred Heart Sister working with Vietnamese communities |
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Col. Jim Croke |
Irish Red Cross |
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Rev. Dermot Clifford |
Irish Episcopal Commission for Emigrants |
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Ms Mary Aylward |
Department of Health |
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Ms Hope Hanlon |
Observer, UNHCR |
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Mr. Peter O’Mahoney |
Observer, Irish Refugee Council |
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Ms Denise Barry |
Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform |
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Ms Mary Walshe |
Department of the Environment |
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Mr. Denis Hayes |
Department of Foreign Affairs |
The Agency for Personal Service Overseas, APSO, was established in 1973 as a semi-State body operating under the aegis of the Department of Foreign Affairs, with a board of directors appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs. APSO was integrated into the Department of Foreign Affairs on 1 January 2004. The following is a list of the board of directors of APSO as at 31 December for each of the years 2001 to 2003.
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Name |
Background |
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Ms Mairéad Hayes |
Human Resources, Aer Lingus |
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Mr. Aidan Eames |
Solicitor |
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Mr. Brendan Rogers |
Department of Foreign Affairs |
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Mr. Dónal MacDonald |
Staff Nominee |
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Mr. Robin Hanan |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Ms Mary Sweeney |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Mick Kiely |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Seán Burke |
Accountant |
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Sr. Teresa Walsh |
Missionary — Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary |
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Sr. Margaret Quinn |
Missionary — Medical Missionaries of Mary |
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Ms Maeve Healy |
Financial Sector |
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Aidan Eames |
Solicitor |
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Mr. Brendan Rogers |
Department of Foreign Affairs |
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Mr. Dónal MacDonald |
Staff Nominee |
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Ms Mary Sweeney |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Mick Kiely |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Séan Burke |
Accountant |
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Sr. Teresa Walsh |
Missionary — Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary |
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Sr. Margaret Quinn |
Missionary — Medical Missionaries of Mary |
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Mr. Joseph O’Hara |
Lecturer |
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Mr. John Murphy |
Financial Consultant |
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Name |
Background |
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Mr. Aidan Eames |
Solicitor |
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Mr. Pat Bourne |
Department of Foreign Affairs |
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Ms Catherine Boylan |
Staff Nominee |
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Ms Mary Sweeney |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Mick Kiely |
Development Non-Governmental Organisation |
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Mr. Séan Burke |
Accountant |
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Sr. Teresa Walsh |
Missionary — Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary |
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Sr. Margaret Quinn |
Missionary — Medical Missionaries of Mary |
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Mr. Joseph O’Hara |
Lecturer |
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Mr. John Murphy |
Financial Consultant |
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Mr. Aidan O’Connor |
Engineer |
The former Minister, Deputy Cowen, appointed the following to the Ireland-United States Commission for Educational Exchange — the Fulbright Commission — for the 2002-04 period.
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Name |
Background |
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Dr. Donal Thornhill |
Former Chairperson, Higher Education Authority |
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Prof. Patrick Fottrell |
Former President, NUI Galway |
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Prof. Joyce O’Connor |
President, National College of Ireland |
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Prof. Brian Hillery |
Emeritus Professor, Graduate School of Business, UCD |
M. J. Nolan
Question:162 Mr. Nolan asked the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism the names of all board appointments made by him for the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8719/06]
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Since the establishment of my Department in June 2002 I have made the following appointments to the State bodies under the aegis of my Department.
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Name of Body / State Board |
Appointments since June 2002 |
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Arts Council |
Ms Olive Braiden |
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Mr. Jerome Hynes |
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Ms Mary Nunan |
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Ms Rosaleen Linehan |
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Ms Noelle Campbell Sharp |
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Ms Orlaith McBride |
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Mr. Theo Dorgan |
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Mr. John McGahern |
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Mr. Philip King |
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Ms Una Ó Murchú |
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Mr. Patrick Sutton |
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Ms Emer O’Kelly |
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Mr. Willie Doherty |
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Mr. Alan Stanford |
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Ms Aibhlín McCrann |
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Mr. Maurice Foley |
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Mr. John Crumlish |
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Ms Jaki Irvine |
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Abbey Theatre |
Dr. John O’ Mahony |
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Ms Eithne Healy |
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His Honour Judge Bryan McMahon |
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Mr. Tom Hickey |
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Ms Suzanne Kelly |
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Bord Scannán na hÉireann |
Mr. James Morris |
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Mr. Alan Gilsenan |
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Ms Margaret McCarthy-MacIntyre |
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Mr. Tristan Orpen Lynch |
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Ms Lesley McKimm |
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Mr. Kevin Moriarty |
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Ms Kirsten Sheridan |
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National Museum of Ireland |
Dr. John O’ Mahony |
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Mr. Peter Barry |
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Mr. Gerard Collins |
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Mr. Brian Coyle |
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Dr. Dervilla Donnelly |
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Ms Niamh Fitzpatrick |
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Ms Susan McGrath |
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Mr. David Hanna |
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Ms Bernardine Hurley |
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Mr. Eamon Lankford |
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Mr. Proinnsías Ó’Cillín |
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Ms Nessa O’Connor |
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Mr. Fergus McKenna O’Hagan |
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Mr. Nollaig Ó’Muraíle |
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Mr. John Sheehan |
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Dr. Ruth Whelan |
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Irish Museum of Modern Art |
Mr. Gerard Mannix Flynn |
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Mr. Eoin McGonigal |
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Mr. Frank X. Buckley |
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Ms Valerie Connor |
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Mr. Michael Dwyer |
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Mr. Brendan Flynn |
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Ms Áine O’Driscoll |
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Mr. Brian Ranalow |
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Ms Patricia Tsouros |
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National Library of Ireland |
Mr. Gerard Danaher |
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Mr. Patrick F. Clyne |
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Mr. Bob Collins |
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Ms Ida Delamer |
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Ms Breda Kelly |
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Ms Máire MacConghail |
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Ms Susan McGrath |
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Mr. Niall McMonagle |
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Mr. Brendan O’Donoghue |
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Mr. Jim O’Shea |
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Ms Margaret Toomey |
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Ms Noreen Whelan |
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National Library of Ireland Board of Trustees |
Mr. John Gray |
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Mr. Jim O’Shea |
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Governors and Guardians of Marsh’s Library |
Mr. Patrick Kilroy |
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Ms Marilyn Taylor |
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Chester Beatty Library |
Ms Madeline O’Sullivan |
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Ms Louise O’Mahony |
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National Archives Advisory Council |
His Honour Judge Bryan McMahon |
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Dr. John Bowman |
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Mrs. Kathleen Browne |
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Dr. Maurice Bric |
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Mr. Christopher O’Connell |
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Ms Máire MacConghail |
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Prof. Eunan O’Halpin |
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Ms Carol Quinn |
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Dr. Raymond Refaussé |
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Ms Joan Johnson |
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Prof. Mary E Daly |
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Mr. John Wilson |
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Ms Mairead Dunlevy |
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National Gallery of Ireland Board of Governors and Guardians |
Mr. Lochlann Quinn |
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Mr. Bruce Arnold |
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Mr. Anthony Cronin |
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The Duke of Abercorn K.G. |
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Ms Pauline Bewick |
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Mr. Bernard McNamara |
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Dr. Abdul Bulbulia |
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Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin |
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Irish Manuscripts Commission |
Prof. JFM Lydon |
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Prof. DW Harkness |
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Dr. Mary Daly |
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Dr. Anngret Simms |
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Dr. Mary O’Dowd |
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Prof. Nicholas Canny |
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Mr. James McGuire |
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Irish Sports Council |
Mr. Ossie Kilkenny |
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Mr. Niall Quinn |
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Mr. Maurice Ahern |
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Mr. Ronnie McBrien |
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Ms Mary Davis |
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Mr. Brian Mullins |
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Mr. Peter McLoone |
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Mr. Mick O’Dwyer |
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Ms Marian McGennis |
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Mr. Tony McCarthy |
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Ms Tracy Piggott |
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Ms Sheila Dickson |
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Mr. Pat O’Neill |
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Horse Racing Ireland |
Mr. John Kidd |
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Mr. Jerry L Desmond |
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Mr. William Flood |
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Ms Jessica Harrington |
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Mr. Cahir O’Sullivan |
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Mr. Frank Clarke |
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Mr. John G Moloney |
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Mr. John Power |
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Mr. Dan Kirwan |
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Mr. Noel Cloake |
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Mr. Pierce G Moloney |
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Mr. Nicholas Wachman |
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Mr. Francis Hyland |
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Mr. Dermot Cantillon |
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Bord na gCon |
Mr. Cathal Curley |
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Mr. John Hegarty |
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Ms Helen Nugent |
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Mr. Tony McKenna |
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Mr. Padraic Feeney |
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Mr. Paschal Taggart |
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Mr. Daniel Reilly |
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Mr. Frank O’Connell |
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Fáilte Ireland (National Tourism Development Authority) |
Ms Mary McKeon |
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Mr. Patrick O’Donoghue |
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Ms Gillian Bowler |
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Mr. Dominic Dillane |
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Mr. John McDonnell |
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Ms Catherine Reilly |
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Mr. Noel McGinley |
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Mr. Padraig Ó Céidigh |
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Ms Maureen Cairnduff |
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Ms Eithne Scott — Lennon |
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Mr. Noel O’Callaghan |
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Mr. PáidíÓ Sé |
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Mr. Brian Dowling |
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Bord Fáilte |
Mr. Noel McGinley |
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Mr. Patrick O’Donoghue |
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Mr. PáidíÓ Sé |
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Mr. Sean Dunne |
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Culture Ireland |
Prof. Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin |
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Mr. John O’Shea |
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Ms Mary McCarthy |
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Mr. Mark Mulqueen |
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Ms Doireann Ní Bhriain |
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Mr. Patrick Sutton |
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Ms Eve Molony |
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Mr. Peter Sirr |
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Ms Dearbhla Collins |
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Mr. Davey Arthur |
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Ms Mary Cloake |
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Mr. Michael Grant |
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Mr. Gearóid Ó Broin |
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Mr. Niall Ó Donnchú |
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Ms Philomena Murnaghan |