New Deputy Principal at Dundalk s Faughart Community National School
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Saoirse Mc Dermott has been appointed to the position of Deputy Principal at Faughart Community National School.
Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) said it is delighted to announce the appointment of Saoirse Mc Dermott as Deputy Principal at Faughart CNS.
Saoirse joins the other member of the Leadership and Management Team of the school, Ms. Jacqui Mc Cusker Principal.
Saoirse holds a Bachelor of Education Degree from Marino Institute of Education and has been teaching at Faughart CNS since it opened its door in August 2018.
LMFM By Caitriona Rooney Ms. Saoirse Mc Dermott appointed as Deputy Principal at Faughart Community National School (Faughart CNS) Louth and Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB) is delighted to announce the appointment of Ms. Saoirse Mc Dermott as Deputy Principal at Faughart CNS, Faughart, Co. Louth.
Saoirse joins the other member of the Leadership and Management Team of the school, Ms. Jacqui Mc Cusker Principal.
As a Deputy Principal within the LMETB Schools Directorate, Saoirse will also have the collegial support of the Senior Management teams in LMETB’s eighteen Post Primary schools, three other Community National Schools, two PLC colleges and the Centre for European Schooling in Dunshaughlin.
About this Event
Dr Colm Mac Gearailt currently lectures in Marino Institute of Education and for Hibernia College. His research focusses on history education, the Irish language, and state examinations as they pertain to Irish history. He holds a PhD from TCD (2019) and was awarded a Government of Ireland Irish Research Council Postgraduate scholarship in 2017 to complete his doctoral thesis. In 2019 he completed a postdoctoral research placement, as part of a forthcoming biography of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid, under Dr John Walsh. He previously conducted a major translation of the autobiographies of Ernest Blythe, from Irish to English, as a contribution towards the late Prof David Fitzpatrick’s Ernest Blyth: A Double Life (Cork 2018).
Professor Linda Hogan - at the top of Irish academia
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Callan woman Professor Linda Hogan has blazed a trail in academia and is a candidate to become the first ever female Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor Hogan is one of three final candidates, from whom the new Provost will be chosen, in April.
The daughter of the late Bea and Patsy Hogan of the Steppes Bar, Linda attended St Brigid’s College, Callan, and is currently a Professor of Ecumenics at the School of Religion in Trinity College.
Professor Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, social and political ethics, human rights and gender.