2021 Event Speakers

Mick Mulvaney

Mick Mulvaney is a proud Irish American and a graduate of Georgetown University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he received

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Bryan Dobson

Bryan David Dobson is an Irish journalist, newscaster and presenter with RTÉ in Ireland. He currently presents the RTÉ: News at One. He previously presented

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Bertie Ahern

Bertie Ahern retired as Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) in May 2008 having enjoyed the unique distinction in modern Irish politics of being the first person

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Paul Kelly

Paul Kelly has been the Chief Executive of Fáilte Ireland since 2017. Paul is leading Fáilte  Ireland, the National Tourism Development Authority, through the deepest crisis ever for

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Ken Murphy

When Ken Murphy announced his retirement with effect from March 2021, after 26 years in office, the Atticus column in the Sunday Times described him

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Frank Greaney

Frank Greaney is an award-winning journalist and broadcaster. As Courts Correspondent for Newstalk and Today FM, he has covered some of the most shocking cases

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Brendan Boyle

Congressman Brendan F. Boyle was born and raised in the city of Philadelphia. The son of an immigrant, Congressman Boyle’s father was a janitor for

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Donie O’Sullivan

Based in New York City, O’Sullivan is a top expert in his field whose work primarily focuses on the real-world effects of online misinformation and

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Dr. Donnacha Ó Beacháin

Donnacha Ó Beacháin is Professor of Politics at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University where he lectures on the post-Soviet region, unrecognised

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Prof. Luke O’Neill

Luke A.J. O’Neill Title: Professor (Chair of Biochemistry) Affiliations: School of Biochemistry and Immunology Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Email: laoneill@tcd.ie EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 1985: Awarded

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Mary Regan

Mary Regan is an Irish journalist. She is currently a political reporter for RTÉ News. She formerly held the role of political editor with UTV

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Brian O’Donovan

Brian O’Donovan Brian O’Donovan is RTÉ’s Washington Correspondent, a position he has held since January 2018. During his time in the US, Brian has covered

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Dr. Mary C. Murphy

Dr Mary C. Murphy holds a Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and is a lecturer in politics with the Department of Government and Politics,

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Neasa Hourigan

Neasa Hourigan is the Green Party TD for Dublin Central (formally councillor for Cabra-Glasnevin). Neasa is the Green Party Finance & Health Spokesperson. She has

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Conor Gallagher

Conor Gallagher is the Irish Times’ Crime Correspondent. He was previously a reporter with CCC.Nuacht, the news agency covering the criminal courts in Dublin. He

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Orla O’Donnell

Órla O’Donnell has been RTÉ’s legal affairs correspondent since 2006 and has reported on almost every high profile court case since then. She has reported

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Sinead McSweeney

A native of Midleton, Co. Cork, Sinéad studied law at University College Cork and qualified as a barrister in 1993. She began her working life

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Eamonn Hore

Eamonn Hore studied Civil Engineering at University College Dublin graduating with a B.E. in 1979. He then studied Computers for Engineers at Trinity College Dublin

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Jenifer Whitmore

“Jennifer Whitmore was elected TD for Wicklow in 2020 and is the Social Democrats Spokesperson for Climate and Biodiversity, Children and Communications. Jennifer qualified with

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Eileen Dunne

Dubliner Eileen Dunne has been involved with the Kennedy Summer School for a number of years now. A recent retiree, she spent 42 years working

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Suzanne Lynch

POLITICO Europe today announced that Suzanne Lynch and Jakob Hanke Vela will helm the Brussels Playbook newsletter as of September 2021. Suzanne was the Europe

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Dr. Bill Kissane

Bill Kissane was born in the Republic of Ireland and was educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA MA) and the LSE (MSc PhD). He has

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William Keilthy

William Keilthy, a native of New Ross, is a retired business executive who held senior management roles in Glanbia Foods  before setting up his own

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Tommie Gorman

During his 41 years with RTE Tommie Gorman developed a reputation for telling complex stories in an accessible, sensitive way. He covered national and international

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Vivienne Traynor

Vivienne Traynor is an Irish journalist and presenter with Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), where she has been a relief presenter for the One O’Clock News

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Mairead Farrell

Mairéad Farrell is a Sinn Féin TD since the 2020 General Election representing the Galway West and South Mayo. She is also the party’s spokesperson

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