Ireland XO HQ Team
Current Vacancies
The programme is headquartered in Loughrea, Co Galway. Below is the HQ Team!
Mary Shaughnessy
- Financial coordinator
- Partnership relationship manager
- IT coordinator
Paula Kennedy
- National PR Officer
- Volunteer Co-ordinator abroad
- HQ Volunteer Co-ordinator
- Team: Josephine Harrison, Stephen Keane and Sharon O'Neill
Henry Healy
- Community Activation Leader; dealing with local authorities and community organisations
- Running community engagement sessions - supporting local people in starting IrelandXO groups and providing a structure and guide from which to proceed.
Cynthia O' Connor
- Genealogy Development Officer
- Guidance & Advice for training groups and researching genealogy queries
- Contact person for all Parish Liaisons
- Volunteer Co-Ordinator for Ireland
- Team: Emma Carty, Genealogy Development Assistant
John Joe Conwell
- Parish Liaison Officer
- Presenting, empowering and teaching the local communities
Advisory Board
Ireland Reaching Out is a registered company limited by guarantee, with charitable status, registered under the Companies Acts and is managed by a voluntary Board of Directors. The programme is based in Loughrea, Co. Galway. Ireland Reaching Out is sponsored by the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, The Heritage Council, Galway County Council and Failte Ireland with the support of the GAA and private donations.
Advisory Board Members
- Mike Feerick
- David McWilliams
- John Joe Conwell
- Marie Mannion, Heritage Office, Galway County Council
- Gerard McInerney, businessman and local historian
- Willie Golden, NUIG Dean of Studies
- Michael Fahy, retired teacher and local historian
- Bill Liao, founder and co-owner of Xing
- Paul Michels, US businessman
- Fiona Ross, Director of National Library
- Joe McDonagh, former GAA President
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