2016 Event Speakers

Frances Fitzgerald

Frances Fitzgerald was re-elected as TD for Dublin Mid-West in February 2016. She was appointed as Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality on the 6th May 2016.

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Kevin O’Malley

Kevin F. O’Malley was sworn in as U.S. Ambassador to Ireland on September 30, 2014 and presented his credentials to President Michael D. Higgins on October 8, 2014.

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David Woolner

David B. Woolner is Senior Fellow and Hyde Park Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute, Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College, and Associate Professor of History at Marist College.

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Nóirín O’Sullivan

Commissioner O’Sullivan has more than 30 years of professional policing experience across a wide range of operational and administrative function areas and in a broad range of police disciplines at both national and international level.

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Charlie Bird

Charlie Bird is one of Ireland’s most well known Journalists and has had a long and distinguished career in Irish Public Service Broadcasting.

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Kevin Cullen

Kevin Cullen is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has written for The Boston Globe since 1985. At the Globe, he served on the Spotlight team, as well as a local, national and foreign correspondent before becoming a columnist.

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Edward Hayden

Edward Hayden is a well-known chef and food writer/blogger and is very familiar to radio and television audiences from his weekly cookery slots on TV3′s Ireland AM and regular appearances on KCLR 96FM.

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Colm O’Gorman

A native of County Wexford, Colm O’Gorman is the Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. He has held this position since February 2008.

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Stacy Hilliard

Stacy Hilliard currently serves as the Chairman of American Voices International and is the former Vice Chairman of the Republicans Abroad UK.

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Paddy Cullivan

Paddy Cullivan of Callan’s Kicks, The Late Late Show, Leviathan and Kilkenomics brings you an audiovisual spectacular on the 100th Anniversary of the Easter Rising.

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Tony Bates

Dr Tony Bates is the Founding Director and CEO of Jigsaw-Ireland’s National Centre for Youth Mental Health.

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Tad Devine

Tad Devine writes directs and produces advertising for leading Democratic and Independent candidates in the U.S. He also provides strategic advice for national campaigns in Europe, the Middle East and Latin America.

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John McGuinness

John McGuiness is currently chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach. He is TD for the Carlow- Killenny constituency.

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Tom Mooney

Tom Mooney is editor of The Wexford Echo Group of Newspapers in Ireland, and author of ‘All The Bishops’ Men’.

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Ronan King

Ronan King is a Chartered Accountant, Management Consultant, Past-President of both Dublin and Bray Chambers of Commerce and a long-time student of the Kennedy ‘phenomenon’.

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Sorcha O’Neill

Sorcha O’Neill is currently working with See Change, an organisation that aims to reduce the stigma surrounding Mental Health in Ireland.

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