Law, politics, and government

• Rotimi Adebari
  Rotimi Adebari
  Rotimi Adebari is a Nigerian-born Irish politician. He was elected as the first black mayor in Ireland.A convert from Islam to Christianity, he fled Nigeria in 2000, and made a claim for asylum on the grounds of religious persecution...
  
   Ireland's first black mayor (Port Laoise
  Port Laoise
  Portlaoise or Port Laoise , historically spelled Port Laoighise or Portlaoighise, is the county town of County Laois in the midlands of Ireland. The population was 14,613.-History:...
  
  )
• Clare Daly
  Clare Daly
  Clare Daly is an Irish Socialist Party politician and trade union activist. She was elected as a Teachta Dála for the Dublin North constituency at the 2011 general election. She was previously a Socialist Party councillor for the Swords electoral area on Fingal County Council.-Early life:Daly was...
  
  
• Brendan Howlin
  Brendan Howlin
  Brendan Howlin is an Irish Labour Party politician who has served as a Teachta Dála for Wexford since 1987. Currently the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, he previously served as Leas-Cheann Comhairle, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Health.-Early life:Born into a highly...
  
   (SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  ) (Irish Labour Party Teachta Dála
  Teachta Dála
  A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...
  
  .)
• Enda Kenny
  Enda Kenny
  Enda Kenny is an Irish Fine Gael politician, and has been the Taoiseach since 2011. He has led Fine Gael since 2002. He served as Minister for Tourism and Trade from 1994 to 1997. He is also a two-term Vice President of the European People's Party.Kenny has been a Teachta Dála for Mayo since...
  
   (SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  ) (Teachta Dála
  Teachta Dála
  A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...
  
  , 10th leader of the Fine Gael
  Fine Gael
  Fine Gael is a centre-right to centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland. It is the single largest party in Ireland in the Oireachtas, in local government, and in terms of Members of the European Parliament. The party has a membership of over 35,000...
  
   party.)
• Conor Lenihan
  Conor Lenihan
  Conor Lenihan is a former Irish Fianna Fáil politician. He was a Teachta Dála for the Dublin South West constituency from 1997 to 2011, and served as a Minister of State from 2004 to 2011. He then moved to Moscow.-Biography:...
  
   (Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...
  
   Teachta Dála
  Teachta Dála
  A Teachta Dála , usually abbreviated as TD in English, is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas . It is the equivalent of terms such as "Member of Parliament" or "deputy" used in other states. The official translation of the term is "Deputy to the Dáil", though a more literal...
  
   (TD). Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs.)
• Mary Lou McDonald
  Mary Lou McDonald
  Mary Lou McDonald is an Irish politician, the current Vice President of Sinn Féin and a Teachta Dála for Dublin Central...
  
   MEP (Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin
  Sinn Féin is a left wing, Irish republican political party in Ireland. The name is Irish for "ourselves" or "we ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone". Originating in the Sinn Féin organisation founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith, it took its current form in 1970...
  
  , formerly of Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil
  Fianna Fáil – The Republican Party , more commonly known as Fianna Fáil is a centrist political party in the Republic of Ireland, founded on 23 March 1926. Fianna Fáil's name is traditionally translated into English as Soldiers of Destiny, although a more accurate rendition would be Warriors of Fál...
  
  )
• Senator
  Seanad Éireann
  Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas , which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann . It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its members Senators or Seanadóirí . Unlike Dáil Éireann, it is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members chosen by...
  
   Kathleen O'Meara
  Kathleen O'Meara
  Kathleen O'Meara is an Irish politician and member of the 21st and 22nd Seanads for the Labour Party in Ireland. On both occasions she was elected by the Agricultural Panel....
  
  
• Senator
  Seanad Éireann
  Seanad Éireann is the upper house of the Oireachtas , which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann . It is commonly called the Seanad or Senate and its members Senators or Seanadóirí . Unlike Dáil Éireann, it is not directly elected but consists of a mixture of members chosen by...
  
   Rónán Mullen
  Rónán Mullen
  Rónán Thomas Mullen is an independent Irish Senator and delegate to the Council of Europe. He was elected in the National University of Ireland Seanad constituency in July 2007 and re-elected for a second term in 2011. Mullen is a frequent media commentator on social and political topics...
  
  
• Brendan Ryan (Dublin North)
• Brody Sweeney
  Brody Sweeney
  Brody Sweeney is an Irish businessman, known for founding O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars which went into Liquidation in October 2009. The Irish business was subsequently bought from the liquidator by Abrakebabra Investments Ltd. Prior to that he was involved with the franchise Prontoprint before...
  
  
• Seán Dorgan
  Seán Dorgan
  Seán Dorgan is the current General Secretary of Fianna Fáil. He was also briefly a member of the 22nd Seanad Éireann, to which he was nominated by the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, on 23 June 2007 to fill one of the vacancies left by the election of four senators to Dáil Éireann at the 2007 general...
  
   General Secretary of Fianna Fáil

Arts & media

• Ian Barry
  Ian Barry
  Ian Barry is an award-winning industrial designer, and co-owner of Falcon Motorcycles, with Amaryllis Knight. He plays guitar in the progressive metal band Black Math Horseman.- Career :...
  
  
• Declan Buckley
  Declan Buckley
  Declan Buckley is an Irish television personality and the man behind Dublin drag queen character, Shirley Temple Bar.Since 1997, Buckley has hosted a weekly bingo and drag show in Dublin's largest gay bar, The George and, in 2001, he caused a stir when Shirley Temple Bar took over the National...
  
   (Irish television personality)
• Rory Carroll
  Rory Carroll
  Rory Carroll is an Irish journalist for The Guardian. Born in Dublin, Carroll is a graduate of Blackrock College, Trinity College and Dublin City University...
  
   (News correspondent, The Guardian
  The Guardian
  The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
  
   Newspaper)
• Finghin Collins
  Finghin Collins
  Finghin Collins is an Irish pianist. He won first prize at the Clara Haskil International Piano Competition in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1999, and has performed with many of the world's leading orchestras and conductors....
  
   (pianist)
• John Connolly (author)
  John Connolly (author)
  John Connolly is an Irish writer who is best known for his series of novels starring private detective Charlie Parker.-Life and works:...
  
  
• Matt Cooper
  Matt Cooper (Irish journalist)
  Matt Cooper is an Irish journalist and presenter of The Last Word on Today FM.Cooper was educated at the North Monastery school and University College Cork. He is a former editor of the Sunday Tribune, appointed in September 1996, as well as a former business editor of the Irish Independent...
  
   (Presenter of “The Last Word”, Today FM
  Today FM
  Radio Ireland Ltd, trading as 100-102 Today FM is an Irish commercial FM radio station which is available nationally. The station, which commenced broadcasting on Saint Patrick's Day in 1997, can be received nationally and carries a mix of music and talk...
  
   and Sunday Times
  The Sunday Times (UK)
  The Sunday Times is a Sunday broadsheet newspaper, distributed in the United Kingdom. The Sunday Times is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News International, which is in turn owned by News Corporation. Times Newspapers also owns The Times, but the two papers were founded...
  
   Columnist)
• Neil Delamere (comedian)
• Breandán de Gallaí
  Breandán de Gallaí
  Breandán de Gallaí is a professional Irish dancer, who is most famous for his lead role in Riverdance....
  
   (Brendan Galway), Riverdance dancer
• Mark Little (Presenter, RTÉ
  Raidió Teilifís Éireann
  Raidió Teilifís Éireann is a semi-state company and the public service broadcaster of Ireland. It both produces programmes and broadcasts them on television, radio and the Internet. The radio service began on January 1, 1926, while regular television broadcasts began on December 31, 1961, making...
  
  ’s “Prime Time
  Prime Time
  Prime Time is an Irish news analysis, current affairs and politics programme. It is broadcast on RTÉ One on Tuesday and Thursday nights between 21:30 and 22:10. It is currently presented by Miriam O'Callaghan, who has presented the programme since its commencement in 1996...
  
  ” )
• Stephen J. Martin
  Stephen J. Martin
  Stephen J Martin is an Irish writer of contemporary comic fiction.Martin grew up in Raheny, Dublin. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering from Dublin City University...
  
   (Writer of contemporary comic fiction)
• Patrick McCabe (novelist)(SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  )
• John McGahern
  John McGahern
  John McGahern was one of the most important Irish authors of the latter half of the twentieth century. Before his death in 2006 he was hailed as "the greatest living Irish novelist" by The Observer.-Life:...
  
  (SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  )
• Caroline Morahan
  Caroline Morahan
  Caroline Morahan is an Irish actress and television host. She presents TV fashion show Off the Rails on RTÉ One. She has hosted numerous television shows including The Fame Game, Chance to Dance, The Podge and Rodge Show and The IFTA's Red Carpet Show, and has been a celebrity judge on talent shows...
  
   (RTÉ’s “Off the Rails
  Off the Rails (television)
  Off the Rails is a fashion magazine show presented by Pamela Flood and Caroline Morahan shown on RTÉ One. The show was previously presented by Liz Bonnin and Flood, before Bonnin decided to leave...
  
  ”/ “Fair City
  Fair City
  Fair City is an award-winning Irish television soap opera on RTÉ One. Produced by Radio Telefís Éireann, it was first broadcast on Monday, September 18, 1989...
  
  ” )
• Barry Murphy (actor/comedian)
• Ardal O'Hanlon
  Ardal O'Hanlon
  Ardal O'Hanlon is an Irish comedian and actor, best known for his roles in television sitcoms as Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted and George Sunday in My Hero.-Early life:...
  
   (Comedian and well-known from Fr. Ted
  Father Ted
  Father Ted is a comedy series set in Ireland that was produced by Hat Trick Productions for British broadcaster Channel 4. Written jointly by Irish writers Arthur Mathews and Graham Linehan and starring a predominantly Irish cast, it originally aired over three series from 21 April 1995 until 1 May...
  
  )
• Don Wycherley
  Don Wycherley
  Don Wycherley is an Irish actor who is well known for the portrayal of Father Cyril McDuff in the comedy Father Ted. Don is the brother of Gordon Wycherley. Other roles include Raymond in Bachelors Walk and Fr...
  
  (SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  )
• Laura Whitmore
  Laura Whitmore
  -Early life:Laura was born in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland.She attended St Patricks Primary School and Loreto Bray Secondary School until she was 18 years old...
  
   (MTV UK Presenter)

Athletics

• Bernard Brogan (junior)
  Bernard Brogan (junior)
  Bernard Brogan is a Gaelic football player who plays inter-county football with Dublin and his club football for St Oliver Plunketts/Eoghan Ruadh. Bernard alongside most of his family hove all attended St. Declan's College on the Navan Road...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )
• Paul Casey (Gaelic footballer)
  Paul Casey (Gaelic footballer)
  For the article about the professional golfer, see Paul Casey.Paul Casey is an Irish Gaelic footballer who plays for Dublin. He plays his club football for Lucan Sarsfields. He is a wing-back. Casey's father was a Munster Minor Football Championship winner with Kerry in 1968. Paul has won four...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )
• Paddy Christie
  Paddy Christie
  Paddy Christie, born in Dublin in 1976, is an Irish Gaelic footballer who usually plays in the full-back position. He made his inter-county senior debut for the Dublin senior football team against Armagh in April 1995. At club level he plays for Ballymun Kickhams. He served as Dublin in 2005. He...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )(SPD
  St. Patrick's College of Education (Drumcondra)
  St Patrick's College of Education is a linked college of Dublin City University since 1993, located in Drumcondra, Dublin City, Ireland. The college is in existence since 1875 and has a Roman Catholic ethos. It is the largest primary teacher training college in Ireland...
  
  )
• Stephen Cluxton
  Stephen Cluxton
  Stephen "Clucko" Cluxton is a Gaelic football goalkeeper with Dublin. He plays his club football for Parnells. Cluxton is unusual for a goalkeeper as he often opts to take frees during games...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )
• Bryan Cullen
  Bryan Cullen
  Bryan Cullen is an Irish Gaelic footballer who currently plays as a left wing-forward for the Dublin senior team.Cullen made his first appearance for the team during the 2003 championship and has become a regular player over the last few seasons. During that time he has won one All-Ireland...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )
• Jamie Heaslip
  Jamie Heaslip
  James Peter Richard "Jamie" Heaslip is a Leinster & Irish rugby union player.- Early life :Heaslip was born in Tiberias, Israel, while his father, retired Brigadier General Richard Heaslip, was there on duty with UNIFIL. He attended Newbridge College before starring at the 2004 U-21 World Cup in...
  
   (Irish Rugby International
  Ireland national rugby union team
  The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...
  
  )
• Kevin Hunt (Bohemians
  Bohemian F.C.
  Bohemian F.C. , more commonly referred to as Bohemians, is a professional football club from Dublin, Ireland. Bohemians compete in the Premier Division of the League of Ireland and are the third most successful club in League of Ireland football history, having won the League of Ireland title 11...
  
   captain)
• Bernard Jackman
  Bernard Jackman
  Bernard Jackman is an Irish former rugby union player who played for Leinster. At international level, he has also played for Ireland.-Early career:...
  
   (Irish Rugby International
  Ireland national rugby union team
  The Ireland national rugby union team represents the island of Ireland in rugby union. The team competes annually in the Six Nations Championship and every four years in the Rugby World Cup, where they reached the quarter-final stage in all but two competitions The Ireland national rugby union...
  
  )
• Eoin Kennedy
  Eoin Kennedy
  Eoin Kennedy is an Irish handball player from County Dublin, in the Republic of Ireland.'Eoin Kennedy is currently an engineer and former lecturer at NUI Maynooth. He is the holder of 14 Senior handball titles. He also has won 3 Irish Nationals Open Singles and a Collegiate title representing DCU...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  ) (All Ireland Handball Champion 2005. 60 x 30 title: 3 times, Total Senior All-Ireland titles: 8.)
• Gerard McDonnell (He reached the summit of Everest in May 2003)
• Conor Mortimer
  Conor Mortimer
  Conor Mortimer is an Irish Gaelic football player for Mayo senior football team. He has also appeared for the Connacht provincial team in the Railway Cup and played his club football for Shrule-Glencorrib in Mayo and later with Dublin club Parnells. He has also played college football for DCU and...
  
   (Mayo GAA
  Mayo GAA
  The Mayo County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Mayo GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Mayo and the Mayo inter-county teams.-History:...
  
  )
• Ross Munnelly
  Ross Munnelly
  Ross Munnelly is a Gaelic football player from Laois in Ireland. He plays for the Arles/Kilcruise club. He usually plays at wing forward for Laois and in 2003 was part of the Laois team that won the Leinster Senior Football Championship title for the first time since 1946.-Club:In 2003 he starred...
  
   (Laois GAA
  Laois GAA
  The Laois County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association or Laois GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Laois and the Laois inter-county teams.-History:...
  
  )
• Seán Óg Ó hAilpín
  Seán Óg Ó hAilpín
  Seán Óg Ó hAilpín is an iconic Irish-Fijian sportsperson. A former dual player, he currently plays hurling with his local club Na Piarsaigh and is a member of the Cork senior inter-county team. Ó hAilpín captained Cork to the All-Ireland title in 2005...
  
   (Cork GAA) (Captained Cork senior hurling team to its 30th All Ireland title.)
• Shane Ryan
  Shane Ryan
  Shane Ryan is an Irish sportsperson who plays hurling for Dublin and a former Gaelic footballer and All Star with Dublin. Ryan plays his club hurling and football for Naomh Mearnóg and his preferred position is centre back, although he is known to have played many positions for Dublin. He made his...
  
   (Dublin GAA
  Dublin GAA
  Dublin County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association , or Dublin GAA, is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Dublin. The county board is also responsible for the Dublin inter-county teams...
  
  )
• Ian Doyle (WWE tag-team champion of the world)

Faculty

• Ferdinand von Prondzynski
  Ferdinand von Prondzynski
  Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski is the Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland. He is known as a lawyer, a legal academic, a high profile public commentator and a university leader in Ireland and Scotland...
  
  
• Patrick Brereton
  Patrick Brereton
  Patrick Brereton is an author and academic at Dublin City University.-Published works:Books by Patrick Brereton include:* Hollywood Utopia:Ecology in Contemporary American Cinema, Intellect Press, 2004....
  
  
• John Bruton
  John Bruton
  John Gerard Bruton is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach of Ireland from 1994 to 1997. A minister under two taoisigh, Liam Cosgrave and Garret FitzGerald, Bruton held a number of the top posts in Irish government, including Minister for Finance , and Minister for Industry, Trade,...
  
   (former Taoiseach
  Taoiseach
  The Taoiseach is the head of government or prime minister of Ireland. The Taoiseach is appointed by the President upon the nomination of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas , and must, in order to remain in office, retain the support of a majority in the Dáil.The current Taoiseach is...
  
  )
• Farrel Corcoran
  Farrel Corcoran
  Professor Farrel Corcoran is an author and academic at Dublin City University. He has served as Head of Communication and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the university...
  
  
• Michael Cronin
  Michael Cronin (academic)
  Michael Cronin is an author and academic at Dublin City University:-Published works:Books by Michael Cronin include:* Translation and Globalization, Routledge, 2003.* Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity, Channel View Publications, 2003....
  
  
• Edward De Bono
  Edward de Bono
  Edward de Bono is a physician, author, inventor, and consultant. He originated the term lateral thinking, wrote a best selling book Six Thinking Hats and is a proponent of the deliberate teaching of thinking as a subject in schools.- Biography :Edward Charles Francis Publius de Bono was born to...
  
  
• David Denby
• Diarmaid Ferriter
  Diarmaid Ferriter
  Diarmaid Ferriter is an Irish author, historian, and university lecturer. He has authored several books on the subject of Irish history. Diarmaid attended St. Benildus College in Kilmacud in Dublin.-Career:...
  
  
• Robert Elgie
  Robert Elgie (academic)
  Robert Elgie is a professor at Dublin City University . His work mainly relates to the study of Semi-presidential systems...
  
  
• Roderick Flynn
  Roderick Flynn
  Roderick Flynn is Fulltime Lecturer & Chair of MA in Film & Television – School of Communications, at Dublin City University:-Published works:Books by Roderick Flynn include:...
  
  
• Barbara Freitag
  Barbara Freitag
  Barbara Freitag is an author and academic at [Universidade de Brasília/Brazil]-Published works:Books by Barbara Freitag include:*Die brasilianische Bildungspolitik: Resultante oder Agens gesellschaftl...
  
  
• Pamela Gallagher
• Bill Harris
  Bill Harris
  - Sports :*Bill Harris , American MLB pitcher*Bill Harris , Canadian MLB pitcher*Bill Harris American basketball coach, head coach India national basketball team...
  
   (former Director General of SFI
  Science Foundation Ireland
  Science Foundation Ireland ), is the statutory body in the Republic of Ireland with responsibility for disbursing funds for basic science research with a strategic focus...
  
   and current Head of Science Foundation, Arizona)
• Marnie Holborow
  Marnie Holborow
  Marnie Holborow is an author and academic at Dublin City University. She is also on the steering committee of the Irish Anti War Movement as well as being a member of the Socialist Workers Party.-Published works:Books by Marnie Holborow include:...
  
  
• John Horgan
  John Horgan (academic)
  John S. Horgan is the Press Ombudsman in the Republic of Ireland. An author and former Labour Party politician who served from 1969 to 1981 as a senator and then as a Teachta Dála , he was Professor of Journalism at Dublin City University before taking up the ombudsman post in 2007.- Political...
  
  
• Brigitte Le Juez
  Brigitte Le Juez
  Brigitte Le Juez is an author and academic at Dublin City University:-Published works:Books by Brigitte Le Juez include:* Beckett avant la lettre, Grasset, 2007....
  
  
• Colm Kearney
  Colm Kearney
  Professor Colm Kearney is a professor of international business at Trinity College, Dublin.-Background:Born and raised in North County Dublin, Kearney attended University College Dublin , where he graduated with a BA in Economics and Politics. Kearney went on to complete Masters degrees in...
  
  
• Colum Kenny
  Colum Kenny
  Colum Kenny is an author and academic at Dublin City University .-Published works:Books by Colum Kenny include:* Moments that have changed us, Gill & Macmillan, 2005.* Fearing Sellafield, Gill & Macmillan, 2003....
  
  
• Peadar Kirby
  Peadar Kirby
  Peadar Kirby is an author and academic at the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Up to the academic year 2006/2007 he was a Senior Professor at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. He specialises in issues concerning Latin America....
  
  
• Agnes Maillot
  Agnes Maillot
  Agnes Maillot is an author and academic at Dublin City University:-Published works:Books by Agnes Maillot include:* New Sinn Féin: Irish Republicanism in the 21st Century, Routledge, 2004....
  
  
• Gerard McNamara
  Gerard McNamara
  Gerard McNamara is an author and academic at Dublin City University.-Published works:Books by Gerard McNamara include:* Straight Talk:Researching Gay and Lesbian Issues in the School Curriculum, The Gender Equality Unit of the Dept of Education and Science, 2006.* Vision in the Curriculum:An...
  
  
• Tony Moynihan
  Tony Moynihan
  Professor Tony Moynihan was an author and academic at Dublin City University. He retired in 2005.-Published works:Books by Tony Moynihan include:* Coping with IS/IT Risk Management, Springer, 2002....
  
  
• Barbara O'Connor
  Barbara O'Connor
  Barbara O'Connor is an author and Senior Lecturer in the School of Communications at Dublin City University: Her field is media studies and cultural studies, specializing on the represemtation of women in television, and of the development of tourism in Ireland...
  
  
• Donal O'Mathuna
  Donal O'Mathuna
  Donal O'Mathuna is an author and academic at Dublin City University.-Published works:Books by Donal O'Mathuna include:* Nanoethics: big ethical issues with small technology, Continuum, 2009....
  
  
• Derval O'Rourke
  Derval O'Rourke
  Derval O'Rourke is an Irish sprint hurdles athlete. She competes internationally in the 60 and 100 metres hurdles, and is the Irish national record holder in both events...
  
  
• Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín
  Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín
  Dr. Caoilfhionn Nic Pháidín is an author and academic at Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. She served on the government agency Coimisiún na Gaeltachta from 2000 to 2002. She is also a co-founder of the Irish language publishing firm Cois Life.Nic Pháidín has an M.A. and Ph.D. in Irish from...
  
  
• Paschal Preston
  Paschal Preston
  Professor Paschal Preston is an author and academic at Dublin City University:-Published works:Books by Paschal Preston include:* Strategies of Inclusion and Gender in the Information Society: Private and Voluntary Sector Initiatives, NTNU Press, 2003.* Reshaping Communications: Technology,...
  
  
• Helena Sheehan
  Helena Sheehan
  Professor Helena Sheehan is an academic philosopher, historian of science, and writer on communication studies, politics, and philosophical subjects...
  
  
• Alan Smeaton
  Alan Smeaton
  Professor Alan Smeaton is an author and academic at Dublin City University. Among his accomplishments are founding TRECVID, the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and being a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust...
  
  
• Malcom Smith
• Chris Stevenson
  Chris Stevenson (academic)
  Professor Chris Stevenson is an author and Professor of Mental Health Nursing at Dublin City University , where she is also head of the School of Nursing...
  
  
• David Tomkin
• Brian Trench
  Brian Trench
  Brian Trench is a writer and academic living in Dublin, who has been centrally involved in developing science communication and science-in-society studies in Ireland....
  
  
• Paul F. Whelan
  Paul F. Whelan
  Paul F. Whelan is Professor of Computer Vision at the Centre for Image Processing & Analysis, School of Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering & Computing Dublin City University.-Published works:...
  
  
• Jenny Williams
  Jenny Williams
  Professor Jenny Williams is an author and academic at Dublin City University. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in German from Queen's University Belfast in 1974 and a PhD in Medieval Historiography and Heroic Literature in 1979...
  
  
• Eugene O'Riordan
  Eugene O'Riordan
  Eugene O'Riordan is an author and professor at the Dublin City University School of Mathematical Sciences. His areas of research include singularly perturbed differential equations, numerical analysis and Shishkin meshes.-Published works:...
  
  

Notable members of DCU's Governing Authority or educational trust (Past and Present)

• Gay Byrne
  Gay Byrne
  Gabriel Mary "Gay" Byrne is a veteran Irish presenter of radio and television. His most notable role was first host of The Late Late Show over a 37-year period spanning 1962 until 1999...
  
   (current member of DCU's educational trust)
• Veronica Guerin
  Veronica Guerin
  Veronica Guerin was an Irish crime reporter who was murdered on 26 June 1996 by drug lords, an event which, alongside the murder of Detective Garda Jerry McCabe three weeks earlier, helped establish the Criminal Assets Bureau....
  
   (served as a member of the governing body of DCU from 1982 to 1992)
• Brody Sweeney
  Brody Sweeney
  Brody Sweeney is an Irish businessman, known for founding O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars which went into Liquidation in October 2009. The Irish business was subsequently bought from the liquidator by Abrakebabra Investments Ltd. Prior to that he was involved with the franchise Prontoprint before...
  
   (CEO and founder of O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars
  O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars
  O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars, also known as O'Briens, is an international franchise sandwich bar chain founded in Ireland in 1988 by Brody Sweeney. As of October 2009, O'Briens was operated by Irish fast food chain Abrakebabra.-Foundations:...
  
  and current member of DCU's educational trust)

External links

• List of Honorary Members and Doctors of the University (2001)