Title: “Convergence versus divergence in a changing world” Senator Emer Currie was elected to Fingal County Council in 2019 for the Castleknock Local Electoral Area. She contested the 2020 General Election in Dublin West and was subsequently appointed as a Senator in June 2020, as a Taoiseach’s Nominee. She is Fine Gael Seanad Spokesperson for…
Title “Seeding a future: Hope, History and Human Intelligence” Writer and broadcaster Vincent Woods grew up in north Leitrim. His plays include ‘At the Black Pig’s Dyke’ and ‘A Cry from Heaven’, and he has published several collections of poetry. He has worked as a news and current affairs and arts broadcaster and is currently…
Presentation Title: ‘Lessons from the Ladies’ Land League: Managing a country in crisis during global upheaval’. Trish Groves is a communications professional and author of ‘Petticoat Rebellion: The Anna Parnell Story’, published by The Mercier Press. She holds a post-graduate qualification in scriptwriting and entrepreneurship and has been involved in the production of many short films….
Title “What Psychology has to offer in a frantic world – widening the aperture of our awareness” Dr Tony Bates is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at University College Dublin. He was Head of the Department of Psychology for 30 years at St James’s Hospital Dublin. Following psychotherapy training at the Universities…
Title: “Ireland in crisis – how can intelligent people be so stupid?” While working in the Inner City in Dublin, Fr. Peter McVerry SJ opened a hostel for young homeless people in 1979. The organisation, originally called the Arrupe Society, was subsequently renamed the Peter McVerry Trust. It now has 25 hostels, 5 drug and…
Title: “Ireland’s native flora – is it in crisis?” Botanist Dr Micheline Sheehy Skeffington is the current President of the Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland (BSBI). She took early retirement from the Botany Department, NUI Galway, where she taught plant ecology for over 30 years. Her primary interests are in habitat conservation and her…
