People
Ireland’s Education Yearbook

Phyllis Mitchell
Founder and Publisher

Dr Brian Mooney
Managing Editor

Stan Carey
Copy Editor

Jeroen Bos
Web Development and Graphic Design
Editorial Board 2022

Director Peter Brown
Irish Research Council

Prof Anne Looney
Executive Dean, Institute of Education, Dublin City University

Dr Cornelia Connolly
Lecturer, School of Education, NUI Galway

Dr Majella Dempsey
Associate Professor and EdD Strand Leader for Curriculum Studies, Maynooth University

Dr Kevin Mitchell
Associate Professor of Genetics and Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin

Dr Joseph Ryan
Chief Executive Officer, Technological Higher Education Association (THEA)

Prof Diarmuid Hegarty
President, Griffith College

Andrew Brownlee
SOLAS CEO

Maria Walshe
Director – Branding, Communications and FET Strategy Implementation

Cecilia Munro
Principal, Ballyfermot College of Further Education

Jennifer McKenzie
Director, National Centre for Guidance in Education

Dr Rory O’Sullivan
Principal, Killester College of FET, and Chairperson of the NAPD FET Committee

Paddy Lavelle
General Secretary, Education & Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)

Joan Russell
Director, ETBI School Support Services

Dr Selina McCoy
Associate Research Professor at the ESRI and Adjunct Professor at TCD

Roisin O Donohue
Guidance Counsellor, Belvedere College Dublin

Moira Leydon
Assistant General Secretary, ASTI

Dr Declan Fahie
Lecturer/ Assistant Professor, School of Education, University College Dublin

Donal O'Reilly
Post Primary Deputy Director, Centre for School Leadership

Alan Mongey
Principal of Coláiste Bhaile Chláir, Co Galway, and Past-President of the National Association of Principals and Deputy Principals (NAPD)

Prof Eugene Wall
President, Mary Immaculate College Limerick

Elizabeth Sheridan
Divisional Inspector, Department of Education & Skills

Deirbhile Nic Craith
previous Director of Education & Research, INTO

Pairic Clerkin
CEO, Irish Primary Principals Network

Feargal Brougham
Principal, St Paul's Senior National School, Ayrfield, Dublin 13

Simon Lewis
Principal, Educate Together National School, Carlow

Dr Éadaoin McGovern
Director, Navan Education Support Centre

Prof Mathias Urban
Desmond Chair of Early Childhood Education, Dublin City University

Milica Atanackovic
Research and Professional Learning Manager, Early Childhood Ireland

Dr Margaret Rogers
National Manager, Better Start: National Early Years Quality Development

Nicola O'Reilly
Tutor at Dublin City University and Early Childhood Education & Care Professional

Dr Sinéad Matson
Founder of Montessori & Early Childhood Professionals Ireland (MECPI)

Anna Rose Codd
Technological University of the Shannon (TUS)