Diarmuid Hegarty (Griffith College)
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- Note: Do not confuse with Diarmuid O'HegartyDiarmuid O'HegartyDiarmuid O'Hegarty was an Irish revolutionary and civil servant.Born in Cork, O'Hegarty was prominent in the re-organisation of the Irish Volunteers after the 1916 Easter Rising...
of similar name. There is no known relationship.
Diarmuid Hegarty is the President of Griffith College Dublin
Griffith College Dublin
Griffith College Dublin is a private third level college in the Republic of Ireland. It is based in and named after the former Griffith Barracks on the South Circular Road in Dublin. It offers courses accredited by a number of institutions and bodies in Ireland and Britain...
(GCD) as well as Chairman of the Higher Education Colleges Association (HECA), and Chairman of the Friends of the Vocal Arts.
Diarmuid Hegarty founded Griffith College as the Business and Accounting Training College in 1974 in operated from Milltown, St. Stephen's Green and Morehampton Road, Dublin, the name was changed when the college moved to the former Griffith Barracks in 1991.
The Griffith College President Diarmuid Hegarty is actively involved in promoting the Bologna Process
Bologna process
The purpose of the Bologna Process is the creation of the European Higher Education Area by making academic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe, in particular under the Lisbon Recognition Convention...
for a European wide Higher Education Network.
Aside from academics and education Hegarty is Chairman of the Las Adelfas Hotel partnership, in which he has extensive business interests. He is also the Vice-Chairman of the Ireland-Pakistan Business Council.
In 2002 he was appointed by the government of Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
as Honorary Consul.