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IN BUSINESS irishpost.co.uk November 2017

IRELAND’S GLOBAL AMBITION An inspiring nation with big plans

PEOPLE POWER

The Irish innovators you should know

KARREN BRADY

Football’s first lady on the search for her Irish grandfather and what it REALLY takes to succeed

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Nothing is impossible IN BUSINESS irishpost.co.uk November 2017

IRELAND’S GLOBAL AMBITION An inspiring nation with big plans

PEOPLE POWER

The Irish innovators you should know

KARREN BRADY

Football’s first lady on the search for her Irish grandfather and what it REALLY takes to succeed

SUCCESS STORY: West Ham United FC Vice-Chairman and star of The Apprentice Baroness Karren Brady is this year’s In Business cover star. Read our exclusive Irish Post interview on pages 31-35 Page 1.indd 2

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EDITOR’S MESSAGE A number of years ago at the 2013 Irish Post Business Awards in London to launch the very first edition of In Business, I spoke about how The Irish Post was entering a new phase.

Having recently come under the stewardship of a new (and current) publisher Elgin Loane, it was going from strength to strength following the relaunch of its website and a focus on building a digital future for a newspaper that had been the voice of the Irish in Britain for over 40 years.

Among those gathered in the room that evening were many of the community leaders and Irish Post supporters who had helped champion the paper in more difficult years.

That night, our Lifetime Achievement Award was presented to dance legend and

entrepreneur Michael Flatley, whose motto ‘believe nothing is impossible’ became the theme of my speech.

It’s a sentiment we have carried with us over the last four years.

That fledgling idea to build a truly global website and share the Irish story not just in Britain, but back home in Ireland and around the world, has in 2017 grown to a point where we now share our news, ideas and opinions to millions of people a month in all corners of the globe.

What began life as a community newspaper founded in London in support of the Irish, is now an ever-growing global platform that more people than ever can be part of.

The pages of this magazine are filled with those people who embody that success and show an affinity to Ireland through their respective industries.

They were the inspiration for

our first publication in 2013 and continue to be so - now more than ever. This is our tribute to those outstanding Irish individuals and a way to celebrate the achievements of all those who contribute to the Irish story. We hope you enjoy our special edition and join us on the next part of the journey.

Siobhán Breatnach Editor-in-Chief The Irish Post

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GLOBAL IRISH Trailblazers and trendsetters – introducing the Irish people changing the way we live, work and think

CONTENTS CONNECTORS........................................... 6 CREATORS.................................................6-8 EDUCATORS ......................................... 8-10 ENTERTAINERS ............................... 10-12 GROUNDBREAKERS................... 10-17 HEALERS ..................................................... 17 LAWMAKERS..................................... 18-19 MOTIVATORS .................................... 20-25 MUSIC MAKERS............... 26-28 / 36-37 FOOTBALL’S FIRST LADY ...... 31-35 NETWORKERS.................................. 38-40 NUMBER CRUNCHERS ............. 41-43 PIONEERS ................................................... 44

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HIS year’s In Business marks a unique time for The Irish Post, our readers, commercial partners and supporters.

As we look ahead to our 50th anniversary year in 2020, we recognise all those who have contributed to the Irish story in Britain and around the world.

As The Irish Post continues to grow online, spreading its digital wings to the four corners of the globe, this year’s special issue – in addition to the hundreds of innovators and trailblazers featured in the following pages - also gives a nod to some of those who are making an impact in the rest of the world.

SO, WHO IS INCLUDED IN THE IRISH IN BRITAIN? Well, obviously there are some grey areas – or perhaps that should be green. Generally speaking the categories are as found in the pages that follow, though this year we have also included...

POWER BROKERS ......................... 45-46 SCREENPLAYERS........................... 34-35 SPIRITUAL LEADERS ....................... 54 STARMAKERS........................................ 55 STORYTELLERS ............................... 55-56 TASTEMAKERS ................................ 57-59 TRAILBLAZERS ..................................... 60 TRENDSETTERS.............................. 60-61 WORDSMITHS ....................................... 61 GLOBAL IRISH 2018 ......................... 62

■ Anyone with Irish ancestry who has focused on some part of their Irish identity in their later life or work, for example Hilary Mantel.

■ Irish people who may not be 100 per cent based in Britain, but whose main sphere of endeavour is in Britain. For example Stephen Nolan, a regular on BBC, and the many actors who have residences in both Britain and Ireland.

■ People born in the Irish-in-Britain community, but may have returned to Ireland, or decamped elsewhere, for example Dana, or the artist Noel Murphy. There are of course, those who were born in Ireland and now live in Britain. This only has a few exceptions – those born in Ireland through happenstance and who have never expressed any Irish identity.

■ Those with one or both parents born in Ireland, though there are exceptions here - those who have never identified with Irish nationality or are totally identified with another national identity.

■ Those with grandparents or more distant Irish roots, but who identify with an Irish background. Thus, although three of the Beatles have Irish ancestry, they are so completely identified with Liverpool we haven’t included them. Sean Connery and Billy Connolly are similarly omitted because of their very distant Irish roots, and also – with the latter two – they identify very strongly with Scotland.

■ The honorary Irish - Those with no Irish connection but who identify (or are identified with) Ireland, or have worked on behalf of the Irish community. This category includes the likes of solicitor Gareth Pierce and Jem Finer, co-writer of A Fairytale of New York.

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CONNECTORS Communications, technology & IT TIM COLLINS OBE CEO & cofounder, New Century, former soldier Founded in 2006, New Century provides specialist training in security sector reform. Headed by former British Army colonel Tim Collins OBE, the company is headquartered in Guernsey.

SINEAD CONLON Client Solutions Manager, Facebook Sinead Conlon has been a Client Solutions Manager at Facebook since August 2014, firstly in Dublin and subsequently moved to the London.

She joined the board of the London Irish Business Society in 2016.

Educated at University College Cork, he moved to Britain in 1998.

JONATHAN GREY Founder & CEO, Ovation Incentives Grey, from Cork, is the founder and CEO of Ovation Incentives, a software company specialising in HR and channel sales environments. He is also a founding director and former Chair of the Irish International Business Network.

BLÁTHNAID HEALY Journalist, Editor Bláthnaid Healy is Senior Editor, News at CNN Digital International, based in London. Before CNN, she was UK Editor at Mashable, establishing the brand and opening its first office in London.

BERNARD DOHERTY CEO & co-founder of LD Communications Born in Chelmsford, Doherty is a PR executive in the music industry. The son of Irish dance instructors, Doherty has worked in the highest echelons of the music industry. Doherty took charge of media for Bob Geldof’s Live Aid concert in 1985.

TOMMY HUTCHINSON Founder & CEO i-genius; co-founder Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces Derry native Tommy Hutchinson established i-genius in 2008. The company is a network of social entrepreneurs. Global Centre for Healthy Workplaces brings together leaders in global health and well-being.

KARL DUFFY Client Partner & Director, BT - Global Services Educated at UCD, Karl Duffy works and lives in London.

GERRY KEANY Founder Cara Stationery Gerry Keany was educated at the Institute of Technology in Sligo and at UCD. Based in Harrow, Cara supplies office materials throughout Britain.

DECLAN GANLEY Chairman and CEO of Rivada Networks Born in Watford, Ganley is a telecommunications entrepreneur based in Galway but with interests across Europe and America. He is the founder of the Libertas political party.

ALAN GLEESON Head of Sales & Marketing at Keelvar.com London-based Alan Gleeson is a digital and online marketing specialist.

IAN KEARNEY ITV Senior Producer Kearney is a graduate of Dublin Institute of Technology. He has recently been involved in the launch of ITV’s new breakfast format Good Morning Britain.

He is currently board member and press lead at the London Irish Business Society.

TIM KELLY Founder & Managing Director, Kelly Group

Donegal man Tim Kelly set up Kelly Communications to set up the emerging British cable television market.

HOWARD KINGSTON Co-founder @ Adludio and Startup Remarkable From Co. Wicklow, Howard Kingston is CEO of advertising technology company @Adludio (formerly Future Ad Labs). Startup Remarkable is an entrepreneurial blog and resource. He is also a lecturer in marketing at General Assembly London.

JOHN LEAHY Construction IT John Leahy led Zutec Technologies to deliver IT linked to the construction, engineering and facilities management industries on projects including London’s The Shard. He is originally from Waterford.

MICHAEL LYNCH Co-founder, Autonomy Corporation Mike Lynch, born in Essex to a family with Co. Tipperary roots, co-founded the Cambridge-based Autonomy Corporation software operation. It was sold to Hewlett-Packard for £7.1billion.

MARY McKENNA MBE Technology entrepreneur & angel investor McKenna co-founded successful online learning company Learning Pool in 2006. She was Chair of Northern Ireland’s Digital Circle 2010-2015.

SIR DAVID McMURTRY Co-founder of Renishaw plc Sir David McMurtry, from Dublin, owns Swinhay House in Gloucestershire, featured in Sherlock on BBC TV. McMurtry and John Deer founded Renishaw, a high-tech measuring group in 1973. He was a 2014 Irish Post Award-winner for Technology.

CONOR McNICHOLAS Co-founder, CEO, AllTogetherNow Journalist and editor Conor McNicholas formerly edited Top Gear and the IPC New Musical Express (NME) and was CEO of the full service digital engagement agency AllTogetherNow. He is now a freelance consultant. McNicholas’s father was from Co. Mayo where Conor has property interests.

JOHN McVEIGH Managing Director, Instalcom Ltd Instal.com is a worldwide mobile monetisation platform focused on apps and games. He has been with the company since 2002 MICHAEL QUIGLEY General Manager UK ESB Lonodn-based Michael Quigley has over 37 years in the electricity business in Europe, Middle East, Africa, Western and South East Asia. For 25 years, ESB has operated as a leading independent generator in the UK and in recent years, invested £1.8bn in developments here.

It has diversified and invested significantly in the UK wind energy landscape with plants in West Durham, Fullabrook and Mynydd y Betws. With Michael as General Manager the focus continues to be the development of a low carbon pipeline and renewable technologies. Carrington Power Station, which opened in 2016, is the latest addition to the company’s generation portfolio and marked a £820m investment in its UK operations. ESB is currently constructing a new £190m renewable power facility at the Port of Tilbury, Essex – the first investment in the UK’s biomass sector with the plant generating green electricity from waste wood.

CREATORS Artists, photographers, curators & gardeners JOHN ANDERSON Keeper of the Gardens, Windsor Estate John Anderson, appointed by The Crown Estate, has responsibility for gardens across the Windsor Estate, including The Savill Garden and The Valley Gardens, as well as the private garden at Frogmore House. He was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin, and the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin.

DUNCAN CAMPBELL Artist, filmmaker Dubliner Duncan Campbell is based in Glasgow and has represented Scotland internationally. He won the Turner Prize in

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2014 with a 54-minute Marxist meditation.

Born to a wealthy family, he is heir to a substantial fortune, valued at being worth more than €60million.

control of her son when he was young. She did, though, encourage his passion for drawing.

CONOR CLINCH Photographer From Dublin, Conor Clinch is based in London. He was mentored on Sky One’s The One’s To Watch in 2014, and today has a long list of clients across Britain and Ireland.

MICHAEL LANDY Artist Michael Landy, one of Britain’s most respected contemporary artists, comes from a Catholic Irish family in the East End of London.

DAMIAN HIRST Artist Hirst was born Damien Steven Brennan in Bristol. His mother, from an Irish Catholic background, has stated that she lost

JOHN MINIHAN Photographer Born in Dublin but raised in Kildare, John Minihan is best

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FINE ART: A Damian Hirst sculpture

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known today for his studies of Samuel Beckett. Minihan’s home town of Athy, which he has photographed since he was 16, also makes up a large part of his portfolio. His other work has ranged from a candid picture of Princess Diana to album cover shots for folk band Irish Mist.

University of Ulster in Belfast. One of his more famous works is The Northern Ireland Assembly in Session. Meanwhile, a portrait of Michael Collins was unveiled in the Glasnevin Cemetery Museum Gallery for the annual Collins-Griffith commemoration in 2015.

NOEL MURPHY Artist Noel Murphy, born in London, studied first at NCAD (National College of Art and Design) in Dublin and then at the

ALAN POWER Gardener Alan Power from Cork is Garden & Estate Manager at the National Trust’s Stourhead Gardens in Wiltshire. He

regularly gives progress reports about the gardens on BBC Radio 4. He became Estate Manager in 2004 after working at the National Trust Gardens of Mount Stewart in Co. Down.

NICHOLAS TRENCH Artist, translator Born in Uxbridge, Nicholas Le Poer Trench is the 9th Earl of Clancarty an Irish Peer. Trench (65) works as a freelance artist, writer and translator — there is no family estate — and is Secretary of

Dysart Press Ltd, a media company specialising in journalism. He sits in the House of Lords as a crossbencher. He is also a member of the Dutch nobility.

BRIAN WHELAN Artist Celebrated painter Brian Whelan is a second- generation Irishman – his father was from Dublin, his mother from Kilkenny. He now lives between East Anglia and the US. Seamus Heaney called his work “bold and commanding”.

EDUCATORS Teachers, professors, academics & charity BRIAN ARNOLD Teacher & Co-founder of HegartyMaths From Dublin, Brian Arnold is a qualified teacher who trained in London. Along with Colin Hegarty, he devised the concept of YouTube tutorials for maths.

DR LAUREN ARRINGTON Senior Lecturer Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Dr Lauren Arrington has prviously been awarded prestigious residential research fellowships at Trinity College Dublin’s Long Room Hub, the Harry Ransom Center (sic) at the University of Texas at Austin, and Cambridge University’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

She is currently Burns Distinguished Visiting Scholar in Irish Studies, and will be Associate Director of the W.B. Yeats International Summer School in 2018 and 2019.

PROFESSOR JIM BENNETT Retired Jim Bennett from Belfast was Director of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University, retiring in 2012. He has appeared in a number of television and radio documentaries and discussions.

JOHN BEW Academic, writer John Bew, from Belfast, is Professor in History and Foreign Policy at the War Studies Department at King’s College London, is currently leading a major new project called the Grand Strategy Programme. Its core aim is knowledge transfer: to bring more historical and strategic expertise to statecraft, diplomacy and foreign policy. Professor Bew also covers the release of state papers for the Irish Times. He is the son of Paul Bew, Professor of Irish Politics at Queen’s University Belfast, and Greta Jones, a history professor at the University of Ulster.

SAM BOWMAN Executive Director of the Adam Smith Institute A graduate of the University College Cork, Sam Bowman is a political theorist an economist at the Adam Smith Institute, one of the world’s leading policy think-tanks. He is also an occasional media contributor including restaurant reviewing at Straight Up London.

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HUGH REDMOND BRADY Academic Hugh Brady (58), from Dublin, is Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Bristol and a Professor of Medicine. He is an international authority on diabetic kidney disease.

He is also President Emeritus of University College Dublin (UCD) having served as UCD’s eighth President from 2004-13.

RIONACH CASEY Academic A Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University, one of Rionach Casey’s research programmes — co-written with Dr Angela Maye-Banbury in 2016 — shone a new light on the Irish immigrant experience in Britain. The research was entitled ‘The sensuous secrets of shelter: how recollections of food stimulate Irish men’s reconstructions of their early formative residential experiences in Leicester, Sheffield and Manchester’.

DAME SUSAN JOCELYN BELL BURNELL Visiting Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford; Fellow of Mansfield College From Lurgan, Co. Armagh, Bell is an astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars. The fact that Bell did not receive recognition in the 1974 Nobel Prize in Physics has been a point of controversy ever since.

ROSE CALDWELL Executive Director, Concern Worldwide UK Rose Caldwell is a qualified chartered accountant. She became Executive Director of Concern Worldwide UK in 2008.

DR CLARE DOWNHAM, Senior Lecturer in Irish Studies Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Clare Downham worked as a research scholar in Dublin and as a lecturer in Celtic and History in Aberdeen before starting at Liverpool in 2010. Her publications to date have focused on Viking Age history and contact across the Irish Sea in the Middle Ages. Her new book Medieval Ireland AD 400-1500 has recently been published by Cambridge University Press.

PROFESSOR EAMON DUFFY Emeritus Professor of the History of Christianity Emeritus Professor Eamon Duffy, originally from Dundalk, Co. Louth, is a Fellow and former President of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He is a regular broadcaster/ writer about religious matters on British media.

PROFESSOR MONICA GRADY Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University Professor Monica Mary Grady is a high profile figure in scientific circles, at NASA and the European Space Agency. She was born in 1958 in Leeds as the eldest of eight children.

COLIN HEGARTY Teacher & Co-founder HegartyMaths With family roots in Clare and Mayo, Colin Hegarty is a qualified maths teacher with a first class degree from Oxford. In 2011 he teamed up with Brian Arnold to produce YouTube maths tutorials, now available globally.

PROFESSOR MARY HICKMAN Professorial Research Fellow at St. Mary’s University Twickenham Liverpool-born Mary Hickman established the Irish Studies Centre at the former University of North London in 1986. Now based in St Mary’s University, she is also Professor Emeritus in Irish Studies and Sociology at London and a Trustee of the London Irish Centre.

HEATHER JONES Associate Professor in the Department of International History at LSE Dr Heather Jones is Associate Professor in the Department of International History at the London School of Economics with wide media experience.

An expert on the First World War, her other main research areas include Irish politics, conflict and culture, 1913-1923.

In early 2013, Dr Jones won one of LSE’s Major Review Teaching Prizes. Irish-born, she studied at Trinity College Dublin.

PROFESSOR FRANK KELLY Director of the Analytical & Environmental Sciences Division Professor Frank Kelly holds the chair in Environmental Health at King’s College London, where he is Director of the

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Analytical & Environmental Sciences Division. He is from Belfast.

PROFESSOR JOHN KELLY Emeritus Research Fellow in English St John’s College, Oxford Educated at Trinity College Dublin — where he was a Foundation Scholar — and at Cambridge University, John Kelly has written extensively on 19th and 20th century literature and is General Editor of The Collected Letters of WB Yeats.

PROFESSOR RALPH KENNA Professor of Theoretical Physics, School of Computing, Electronics and Maths, University of Coventry From Athlone, Professor Ralph Kenna has lived in England since 2002. His research areas include critical phenomena, sociophysics and the ancient sagas of Ireland.

SIR ANTHONY JOHN PATRICK KENNY Philosopher Sir Anthony Kenny has made a significant contribution to Analytical Thomism, a movement whose aim is to present the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas in the style of modern philosophy. He is a founder-member of The British-Irish Association.

RUTH KELLY Pro Vice-Chancellor Research and Enterprise, St Mary’s College, Twickenham From Limavady, Co. Derry, Ruth Kelly was MP for Bolton West 1997-2010, and held various ministerial positions under Tony Blair. She is a member of Opus Dei. PROFESSOR FRANCIS XAVIER McDONOUGH, Professor of International History, Liverpool John Moores University McDonough is a respected historian.

His key area is international history, particularly Anglo-German relations in the 20th century.

PROFESSOR JOHN MITCHELL Former Chief Scientist, Met Office John Mitchell, from Downpatrick, Co. Down, is a leading world expert on climate change, serving as Chief Scientist at the Met Office, and on its Executive, for seven years. He now advises the current Chief Scientist.

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JOE MORAN Writer, journalist, Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University Joe Moran is a social and cultural historian who writes about everyday life. He has two Irish grandparents, a grandmother from Clare and a grandfather from Dublin, and his father was brought on Scattery Island, until the age of 13, when the family moved to Britain. Moran is also Professor of English and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.

DR ANGELA MAYE-BANBURY Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University Co. Tyrone woman Dr Angela Maye-Banbury MSc, Dip HE, PhD, is Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University (Housing and Oral History) specialising in people, place and social history. In 2016 one of her research programmes, co-written with Rionach Casey, and entitled ‘The sensuous secrets of shelter: how recollections of food stimulate Irish men’s reconstructions of their early formative residential experiences in Leicester, Sheffield and Manchester’ uncovered new angles on the Irish immigrant experience in Britain. A great lover of Irish traditional music, Dr Maye-Banbury plays tin whistle, guitar, bodhrán and mandolin.

JAMES MURPHY-O’CONNOR Headteacher James Murphy-O’Connor is headteacher at Prior Park College, Bath.

He was born in Windsor, the son of Irish rugby international James MurphyO’Connor and Anne O’Neill, sister of the Irish rugby international William ‘Boldie’ O’Neill. He is the nephew of the late Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.

TONY MURRAY Director of the Irish Studies Centre, London Metropolitan University

Tony is responsible for the Archive of the Irish in Britain, a unique collection of material cataloguing the history of the Irish in Britain.

NIAMH NIC DAÉID Academic Dr Niamh Nic Daéid, Professor of Forensic Science and Director of Research, Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification at the University of Dundee, graduated from the Dublin Institute of Technology and Trinity College Dublin. She is one of Britain’s leading researchers in forensic science — her team were involved in studying the infamous Philpott case in Derby when six children tragically died in a fire set by their parents, Mick and Mairead.

She is also an expert witness at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.

PROFESSOR JOHN O’KEEFE Research scientist, University College London Professor John O’Keefe, with roots in Cork and Mayo, is a researcher in the field of neuroscience. He won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

PÓL Ó MÓRÁIN Member of the Advisory Board, School of Management University of Bradford As well as his work at the University of Bradford, Pól Ó Móráin is a member of Irish Government’s Export Trade Council and a board member of the Irish International Business Network (IIBN).

PROFESSOR LANCE PETITT Professor and Director of the Centre for Irish Studies St Mary’s University, Twickenham Lance Petitt is an Englishman but with long- established connections to Ireland, having studied in Dublin during the 1980s at University College Dublin.

PROFESSOR LOUISE RICHARDSON Principal & Vice Chancellor of the

TOP DUO: Ant and Dec University of Oxford From Tramore, Co. Waterford, Professor Louise Richardson has written extensively on international politics and terrorism.

DR SEAN RYAN Lecturer in Biblical Studies Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Heythrop College, University of London.

As well as his university duties, Ryan is a prolific writer on religious matters.

PROFESSOR PHIL SCRATON Academic, criminologist, author, social researcher Once a bus conductor, Phil Scraton, Professor Emeritus School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast, is Director of the Childhood, Transition and Social Justice Initiative. His research includes the investigation into controversial deaths. Most notably he led the research team investigating the Hillsborough disaster — his book Hillsborough: The Truth was first published in 1999. His Master’s thesis Images of Deviance and Politics of Assimilation examined institutional racism against the Irish

Travelling community in Liverpool. Born in the Wirral, his family located to Liverpool after the Great Famine. Scraton was brought up a Catholic and considered becoming a priest — living in a seminary from the age of 12 until 16.

PROFESSOR PETER SHIRLOW Director and Blair Chair, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool Professor Peter Shirlow from Belfast, took up his position in 2015. He has published more than 80 dissertations on the politics of conflict.

PROFESSOR FRANK SHOVLIN Head of Department, Institute of Irish Studies University of Liverpool Frank Shovlin, originally from Donegal, has been at the Institute of Irish Studies since 2000.

MICHAEL WALSH Fellow at Heythrop College, University of London, writer Michael Walsh has family roots in Co. Cork. He writes extensively on religious matters.

ENTERTAINERS Comedy, TV & Entertainment AISLING BEA Actor, comedian, actor, writer Award-winning Aisling Bea was born Aisling O’Sullivan in Co. Kildare, the granddaughter of Irish language novelist and poet Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin. In 2016 she starred in both The Fall and Damned.

FRANKIE BOYLE Comedian Francis Martin Patrick Boyle was born and raised in Glasgow to Irish parents from the Crolly area of Co. Donegal. His humour – and controversial remarks – have earned him a huge following, as well as a degree of criticism.

KATHY BURKE Actor, comedian, writer, theatre director Kathy Burke has regularly appeared in

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French & Saunders, Harry Enfield’s Television Programme and Absolutely Fabulous. For her role as Valerie in the film Nil by Mouth, she won Best Actress at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival. Latterly she has turned to writing and directing.

ED BYRNE Comedian Edward Cathal Byrne was born in Swords, Dublin. Before embarking on a career as a comedian he read horticulture at the University of Strathclyde. Byrne, who lives in Essex, is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4 arts programmes and panel shows, and is a patron of the British Humanist Association.

JIMMY CARR Comedian James Anthony Patrick Carr was born in

Hounslow, Middlesex to Limerick parents. As well as being a stand-up, Carr is a presenter on radio and television.

ROISIN CONATY Comedian Roisin Conaty was born in London to Irish parents. Conaty won the Best Newcomer Award (Comedy) at the Edinburgh Festival in 2010 for her show Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar. She has since become a regular on the comedy circuit and BBC Radio.

JIMMY CRICKET Comedian Born James Mulgrew in Cookstown, Co. Tyrone, Jimmy Cricket has starred in his own shows on both British television and radio. An enthusiastic and successful charity worker, in 2015 he

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was awarded a Papal knighthood by Pope Francis. Mulgrew lives in Rochdale.

DECLAN DONNELLY OBE Television presenter One half of Ant and Dec, Donnelly, born in Newcastle upon Tyne, is the youngest of seven children born to Irish parents Alphonsus and Anne Donnelly.

He lives in west London.

SHARON HORGAN Actor, writer and producer Sharon Horgan co-wrote and starred in Catastrophe, and is creative director of independent production company Merman. The brother of Ireland rugby star Shane Horgan, she was born in London but grew up in Co. Meath.

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his career path badly interrupted. He slowly returned to the circuit, and retired in 2005. He lives in Cornwall.

TV TALENT: Graham Norton

TONY SLATTERY Comedian, actor Anthony Declan Slattery was born in Stonebridge, London, the fifth child of Irish immigrants. He has appeared on British television regularly since the mid-1980s. His film career has included roles in The Crying Game, Peter’s Friends, and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.

MARIA SCHWEPPE Founder London Irish Comedy Festival Maria Schweppe, educated at the University of Ulster, moved to London in 2010. She is the founder of the London Irish Comedy Festival.

DERMOT O’LEARY Presenter Raised in Essex, Sean Dermot Fintan O’Leary has become one of Britain’s most successful television presenters.

He hosts ITV’s X Factor and a BBC Radio 2 show.

JARLETH REGAN Comedian, podcaster Jarlath Regan is a comedian, writer and illustrator. Now living in London he has created the award-winning Irishman Abroad podcast series.

ROY WALKER Comedian, presenter, actor Belfast-born Walker worked as a riveter in the Harland and Wolff shipyard before turning to light entertainment. He came to fame through New Faces, after which a successful television career followed. He lives in Lytham St Annes.

GRAHAM NORTON Presenter, actor, broadcaster Born Graham William Walker in Clondalkin, Dublin, Graham Norton grew up in Bandon, Co. Cork. He began his broadcasting career in Britain with BBC Radio 4’s Loose Ends.

GRAHAM LINEHAN Scriptwriter Dublin-born Graham Linehan co-wrote Father Ted, The IT Crowd and Black Books, and has also worked on Big Train, Count Arthur Strong, Brass Eye and The Fast Show.

in west London. McPartlin and Donnelly are patrons of the charity Sunshine Fund.

ARTHUR MATHEWS Scriptwriter Arthur Mathews from Co. Meath is co-writer of Father Ted and contributor to sketch shows including Harry Enfield and Chums and the Ted & Ralph segments of The Fast Show.

GRÁINNE MAGUIRE Stand-up comedian, comedy writer and actor Gráinne Maguire, comedian and scriptwriter, has worked extensively on British media, including BBC1’s Question Time. She has produced the video An Irish Immigrant’s Guide to Britain: Gráinne Maguire’s Life Lessons.

ANDREW MAXWELL Comedian Andrew Maxwell, born in Kilbarrack, Dublin and now resident in London, is known internationally as narrator of MTV reality television series Ex on the Beach. Locally, he is regarded as one of the sharpest wits on BBC Radio 4’s News Quiz.

DYLAN MORAN Comedian, actor, writer From Navan, Co. Meath. Dylan Moran co-wrote and starred in the British television sitcom Black Books. His work with Simon Pegg includes Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run. He lives in Edinburgh.

PAULINE McLYNN Comedian, actor, novelist Pauline McLynn, from Co. Sligo, came to prominence as Mrs Doyle in Father Ted. Latterly she has appeared in Eastenders.

McLynn, the author of 10 novels, lives near Birmingham. She is a patron of Birmingham Greyhound Protection.

PHILIP MORROW Managing Director, Wild Rover Productions Belfast-born Philip Morrow founded Wild Rover Productions in 1999. Productions include Just For Laughs, Would You Pass The 11+ and Secret Fortune.

PAUL MERTON Comedian, broadcaster, writer Paul Merton was born in London to an English father, Albert Martin and an Irish Catholic mother, Mary Ann Power. He attended Catholic schools and in his autobiography has spoken of his staunch Catholic upbringing.

ANTHONY MCPARTLIN OBE Television presenter One half of Ant and Dec, McPartlin lives

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NOEL MURPHY Folk musician, actor, comedian and entertainer From Killarney, Co. Kerry, Noel Murphy was a seminal performer on the folk circuit, and seemed well poised to follow in the wake of Billy Connolly, Max Boyce and Jasper Carrot. Murphy appeared on over 300 television programmes and broadcast on radio over 2,000 times. Sadly, after a concert in the Isle of Man he almost died — he drained a pint of Guinness in which the broken remains of a brandy glass had fallen. Murphy didn’t work for five years,

DARA Ó BRIAIN Comedian, broadcaster From Bray, Co. Wicklow, Dara Ó Briain is a graduate of University College Dublin.

However, he eschewed the academic life to become a comedian and television presenter. He lives in west London.

CHRIS O’DOWD Comedian, actorter Born in Sligo, O’Dowd is best known for his role as Roy Trenneman in the Channel 4 comedy The IT Crowd. He is on record as saying: “I’ve always been conscious of the fact that there aren’t enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.”

ARDAL O’HANLON Comedian, actor Ardal O’Hanlon, born in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, is most famous for playing Father Dougal McGuire in Father Ted. Latterly he has played George Sunday in My Hero. He lives in north London.

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GROUNDBREAKERS Construction, waste management, energy & engineering BRIAN ACHESON CEO Dornan Engineering Ltd Educated at Dublin City University, Brian Acheson has overseen some of Dornan’s high profile projects which has seen turnover to increase to well over £200million.

After graduating from NUIG in 1980, Gerry worked in Dublin for seven years.

In 1987, he moved to London and alongside Dan O’Neill set up the O’Neill & Brennan Group in 1990. He has been involved in the construction industry for over three decades.

MATTHEW BEHAN CEO Barhale plc Behan joined Barhale in 2016. He was previously CFO at PJ Hegarty & Son.

PAUL BRUTON Joint Managing Director, Bennett Construction Bennett Construction is an international family-owned construction services company with offices and projects in London, Dublin and Germany. Founded in 1917 in Mullingar, Bennett first entered the British, and particularly the London, market in the mid 1980s.

STEPHEN BOWCOTT Executive Director Ireland & UK, John Sisk & Son Stephen Bowcott has more than 40 years of experience in the construction industry. He was educated at City University, London.

ANGELA BRADY OBE Architect, Director, Brady Mallalieu Dublin-born Angela Brady founded her London-based firm over 30 years ago.

She is a former President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

GERRY BRENNAN Co-Founder O’Neill & Brennan Group

JEREMY BROWNE Executive Chairman, J Browne Construction Ltd Trinity College Dublin graduate, Jeremy Browne leads civil engineering and utility company J Browne Construction.

JEREMY BROWNLEE Founder & Managing Director, Pump Technology Ltd Pump Technology Ltd was set up in

1992 and is still led today by Jeremy Brownlee. The Berkshire-based company is also a leading supporter of Irish community groups, among them London Irish Rugby.

MICHAEL BYRNE CEO Byrne Group Michael Byrne is CEO of the Byrne Group. The Teddington-based construction and engineering firm was founded by brothers Patsy and Johnny Byrne in 1969. Company projects include The Shard, Canary Wharf and the O2 Arena.

CAREY BROTHERS Carey Group plc Brothers John, Tom and Pat Carey, from Ballyporeen in Co. Tipperary, established the Carey Group in 1969.

With its head office in Wembley the construction and demolition company have operations across Britain and Ireland.

TONI BYRNE-PRICE Managing Director Berkeley Homes (Central London) Ltd Sustainability, community and regeneration are paramount for Toni

Byrne-Price who is part of the leadership team at The Berkeley Group - six luxury property developers in London and the South of England. The brands comprise of Berkeley, St George, St James, St Edward, St William and St Joseph and all are devoted to creating new homes, mixed use and commercial developments in the UK’s most desirable locations.

JOHN CAREY JR Executive Director, Seneca & Careys New Homes John Carey Jr joined the Carey Group in 1980. He is the founder of resource recovery company, Seneca.

DERMOT CLANCY Joint Chairman, The Clancy Group plc, trading as Clancy Dowcra The Clancy Group plc was founded by Michael Clancy as M.J. Clancy & Sons Ltd in 1958. Almost 60 years later the business is one of the most successful family-owned construction firms in Britain.

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TIM CLIFFORD Managing Director, Clifford Devlin Tim Clifford has been with demolition business Clifford Devlin since 1978.

JAMES COFFEY Managing Director J Coffey Group Westmeath man James Coffey is the founder and Managing Director of J Coffey Construction - a London-based successful family-run business which has evolved to provide concrete, groundworks, structural alterations and builder’s works services.

BRIAN COMER Chair of UK Operations, The Comer Group From Glenamaddy in Co. Galway, Brian Comer set up one of Europe’s most successful property companies with his brother Brian. They moved to London in 1984 and Brian now lives in Hertfordshire.

LUKE COMER Chair of European Operations The Comer Group From Glenamaddy, Co. Galway, Luke Comer set up a plastering firm with his brother Brian, which turned into a £2billion enterprise. He lives in Monaco, but spends much of his time in London.

EAMON CONNEELY Chairman & CEO Conneely Construction Eamon Conneely, from Galway, founded the Conneely Group in Dublin in 1985 as a plastering and partitioning subcontractor. The London offices were opened in 2006.

MICHAEL CONWAY Chief Executive Officer, FM Conway Michael was appointed as Managing Director in 1981, on his father, Frank Conway’s retirement, and has developed the business from its origins of a highway maintenance contractor into the business it is today.

Renowned for his vision, innovation and determination, over the last 30 years Michael has gained a reputation for his progressive approach to construction industry recycling and sustainability.

SEAMUS COPPINGER Commercial Director, GMP UK Ltd As Commercial Director of GMP UK Ltd, Seamus Coppinger leads this dynamic and innovative construction solutions specialist, which has grown rapidly into one of London and the surrounding counties’ most highly-regarded delivery partners. A focus on finding optimum solutions for clients has made GMP UK Ltd a go-to for all groundwork and RC frame requirements.

GARY COUCH Founder & CEO Islandbridge Properties Islandbridge Properties was founded in 2009 by Gary Couch, who has over 30 years of experience in the construction industry, having built the Apollo Group into a £450million business. Gary is a qualified quantity surveyor having completed his BSc as part of the graduate training programme at Sir Robert McAlpine. In 1986 he joined his family’s business Apollo London Ltd, steering its rise

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over the next 25 years into one of the UK’s largest social housing contractors.

As CEO, Gary led the successive sales of the Apollo Group to Lloyds Development Capital and Halifax Bank of Scotland with a combined enterprise value of £560million. In 2012, the Apollo Group merged with the Keepmoat Group to form one of the leading support services companies in the UK, with an annual turnover in excess of £1billion. Gary is a member of the Investment Advisory Board at Islandbridge Capital and is also Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the charity Teens Unite.

STEPHEN CREANER Chief Operating Officer and Deputy Group Managing Director, Grosvenor Cleaning Services Ltd Stephen Creaner has 30 years’ experience in the sector. The company operates across Britain, Ireland and the US. DENNIS CURRAN Chairman, Barhale plc Dennis Curran founded Barhale in 1980 as a specialist tunnelling contractor. Today Barhale provides civil engineering services to a wide range of construction and infrastructure sectors.

PHILIP CUSACK Managing Director, PF Cusack (Tool Supplies) Ltd PF Cusack is one of Britain’s leading suppliers of contractors’ tools, personal protective equipment, signage and traffic management products.

DENIS DEACY Group CEO, Carey Group plc Denis Deacy was appointed as Group Managing Director of the Carey Group in 2010 and is now CEO. TREVOR DIVINEY Co-Founder, Ground Construction Ltd With roots in Donegal and Wexford, Diviney co-founded Ground Construction in 1997 with Tipperary man Paddy Shanahan.

BARRY DODD Regional Director UK PJ Hegarty & Sons Barry Dodd joined PJ Hegarty & Sons in 1998 having qualified in Civil Engineering from University College Cork. Barry began his career as a Site Engineer before progressing to Project Manager, Contracts Manager and Associate Director. Apart from a brief year working with a GIS Management Consultancy, Barry has spent all of his working life with PJ Hegarty and has been involved with some of the company’s most prestigious projects including the Clarion Hotel & Lapps Quay Development, Pfizer Kilo Plant, Elysian Development and MSD Carlow. Barry was appointed Regional Director in 2015 and is currently overseeing a number of civil projects in the UK and Northern Ireland.

CLARE DUFFY Asset Investment Manager, ESB Networks Clare Duffy has extensive experience in power systems engineering industry in both Britain and the US. She was appointed manager in 2011.

TOM FERNCOMBE Founder and Chairman of Cappagh Group Tom Ferncombe founded Cappagh Contactors Construction in 1973. The company has a huge portfolio of blue chip customers from Thames Water to Southern Gas. SEAN FITZPATRICK Executive Chairman, VGC Group Cavan native Sean Fitzpatrick has guided VGC into a major provider of services. Previously a teacher at The Cardinal Wiseman in Greenford he is Chairman of the Board at Botwell School, and Trustee and Treasurer for the AP Taylor Trust and Harlington Hospice.

LYNDSEY GALLAGHER, Director, Gallagher Group One of the next generation of Irish stars in British construction, Lyndsey stays true to the company’s ethos of getting things done while still caring about the local community and environment. She also supports various charity organisations such as The Lighthouse Club. The Gallagher Group has grown over the last four decades to have an unrivalled reputation in civil engineering, property development, design and build contracting and quarrying.

PAT GALLAGHER Chairman, Gallagher Group After 44 years in business the Gallagher Group has established itself as Kent’s premier building, civil engineering, quarrying and property business.

Privately-owned and family-run, the company began as a civil engineering and groundworks contractor, founded

by Leitrim native Pat Gallagher in 1973.

DONAL GALLAGHER Managing Director, The Galldris Group Donal Gallagher co-founded Galldris Construction with his business partner Sean O’Driscoll in 1998. It now boasts a total workforce of more than 500.

AARON GAUGHAN Managing Director, Gaughan Services Aaron Gaughan left his native Mayo aged 11 when his parents moved to London. He founded Gaughan Services age 21.

THOMAS HALLIGAN Director, Total Plant Hire Ltd Based in Manchester, Total Plant Hire operates a fleet of excavators to a variety of private and public works contractors.

AIDAN HEAVEY Non-executive Chairman, Tullow Oil plc Roscommon-born CEO Aidan Heavey has played a key role in Tullow’s development as a leading independent oil and gas exploration and production group.

PAUL KAVANAGH CEO Imtech “As a management team we support, encourage and constantly challenge each other to be as innovative and ambitious as we can be. We all live and breathe the values we expect our people to embrace.” This is Paul Kavanagh’s mantra in his leadership role

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as Imtech CEO. Since being established in the UK in 2003 Imtech has, through acquisition and organic growth, evolved to become one of the largest technical services providers in the UK and Ireland.

JIM KELLY Managing Director Corbally Group Jim Kelly is Managing Director of the Corbally Group based in Henley-inArden. M r Kelly’s roots in business can be traced back to his father Patrick Kelly from Kildare who set up P J Murray Haulage in the 1960s. The Birminghambased business evolved into DSM Demolition, which was managed day-to-day by sons Jim, Des and John Kelly to provide complex demolition, remediation and decommissioning solutions. It later included SFG who acquired brownfield sites and performed demolition, remediation and planning enhancement to sell site ‘clean’ to developers.

SHANE KELLY Manager of Operational Readiness, Vattenfall Kelly, who is a graduate from the National University of Ireland, Galway, has been with Vattenfall, one of Europe’s largest energy producers, since September2016. He is also a board member of the London Irish Business Society.

SEAMUS KEOGH CEO, The Clancy Group plc, trading as Clancy Dowcra From Callan in Co. Kilkenny, Seamus Keogh was appointed to the Board of M.J. Clancy Ltd and R.E. Docwra Ltd in 1999. He lives in Enfield.

MICHAEL KILCOYNE Director Kilhan Construction Based in Middlesex, operating across London and the Home Counties and led by Director Michael Kilcoyne, Kilhan Construction Ltd specialises in groundworks, paving, RC frames and labour hire. Strong client relationships and high standards are this company’s promise after more than15 years’ experience in the market.

DAN LEAHY Managing Director Roskerry Building Services Having previously worked in Cork before making the move to London over a decade ago, Limerick Institute of Technology Batchelor of Applied Science graduate Dan Leahy leads Roskerry Building Services Limited to provide integrated solutions on construction projects from structural alterations, groundworks and concrete works as well as specialist diamond cutting and drilling.

JIM LEONARD, Director, Eugene Harrington Marketing Irishman Jim Leonard is a Director of EHM, a privately-owned London-based distributor of Contractor Tools, Road Safety and Traffic Products, PPE, Workwear, First Aid, Spill Control, Janitorial, Washroom and Canteen equipment.

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CORMAC McCRANN Executive Director of Canary Wharf Contractors Ltd Born and raised in Dublin, after college, in 1982 as a young quantity surveyor, MacCrann left Ireland bound for a Dutch construction site in Iran. Today, after 27 years, he is the company’s Executive Director of with responsibility for project management and construction of Canary Wharf’s projects both on and off the Canary Wharf estate.

JOEL McINERN Managing Director AJE Facades As the innovator behind AJE Facades Joel McInern has two decades’ experience in contracting. AJE provides specialised cladding and facade solutions – fully-designed, integrated and completed to the highest standards.

NIALL McLAUGHLIN Founder, Niall McLaughlin Architects Born in 1962 in Geneva, Switzerland, Niall McLaughlin grew up in Ireland and studied architecture at University College Dublin before heading to London in the late 1980s. He won Young British Architect of the Year in 1998 and this year’s RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

GERARD McMORROW Founder G3M Construction Company founder and director Gerard McMorrow leads award-winning London company G3M Construction. In 2016 G3M went limited, having operated in a self-employed capacity for the previous eight years, with a view of taking on a bigger workforce and expanding into larger projects across the UK. TOM MITCHELL Founder, T Mitchell & Co Plant Hire Tom Mitchell was born in Maugherow, Co. Sligo in 1944. He moved to London in 1963, starting out on his own in 1973.

His company now offers a full range of modern plant operated or self-drive throughout the south-east of England.

BRENDAN MORAHAN Director, Invennt Brendan Morahan is a highlyexperienced construction project and business leader. He is a firm believer in construction being a force for good because it creates economic, environmental and social value. As MD of Taylor Woodrow/Vinci Infrastructure, he led teams turning over £400m a year. As Executive Board Director, he has also integrated a number of acquisitions and led the successful pursuit of BAA’s 10-year £6.9bn capital framework. Brendan is a Fellow of the CIOB, an occasional lecturer at King’s College London and a Foundation Governor of Salvatorian College.

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MICHAEL MORAN Founder, MP Moran & Sons Ltd In 1976, having spotted a gap in the market, Michael opened a hardware store on Kilburn’s busy High Road that flourished and set up the foundation for a group that would eventually employ over 180 people. Today his stores provide everything from materials for major building projects to equipment for garden landscaping.

Sullivan Group, he has helped grow the Group’s turnover to in excess of £80million and leads a workforce of over 1,500 employees, working on projects the length and breadth of the UK within the Air, Civils, Highways, Nuclear, Rail, Security, Tunnelling and Utilities sectors.

SEAN MULRYAN Chairman, Ballymore Group As 2014’s Irish Post Outstanding Contribution to Business in Britain. He founded Ballymore Group in 1982 at the age of 26.

PHIL MUNNELLY, Managing Director, The Munnelly Group Qualifying as a Quantity Surveyor with Bovis Construction Limited in 1977, Phil excelled in construction and used the experience he had gained to put together a business plan to set up his own company; thus Munnelly Support Services Ltd was born. After experiencing 20 years of growth, Phil began to look into other areas of the construction sector in an effort to encompass more into the company. For the last 18 years, whilst managing The Munnelly Group, Phil has also enjoyed successful roles as a football agent, a night club owner and also a property developer. Over the years, Phil’s entrepreneurial spirit has driven The Munnelly Group across a variety of services and sectors; constantly striving for new business.

TOM O’BRIEN Founder and owner O’Halloran O’Brien Ltd Since its incorporation in 1972, O’Halloran O’Brien has expanded from a small groundworks subcontractor to a major multi-disciplined contractor. The company’s clients include Berkeley Homes and Taylor Wimpey.

RONAN O’BRIEN Quantitative Analyst, Lacima Group Lacima is a leading company in the energy trading and risk management.

O’Brien, who gained his degree at the University of Warwick, is also a board member of the London Irish Business Society.

PAUL O’DONNELL Managing Director, Pod-Trak Ltd Pod-Trak is a privately owned company established in 2007 and since then has grown steadily to provide in-house design, management labour and OTP capabilities, having started as a specialist labour supplier to carry out conductor rail renewals on the Docklands Light Railway.

JACQUELINE O’DONOVAN Managing Director O’Donovan Waste Disposal Ltd O’Donovan (Waste Disposal) Ltd was founded by Joe O’Donovan from west Cork in the 1950s. Joe died suddenly in 1985, and his family took over the business. Industry award-winner Jacqueline O’Donovan is now Managing Director of the company, which is now one of London’s largest and leading

independent waste management firms.

Ms O’Donovan was awarded Ireland’s Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad in 2017. This year she was also appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Irish Youth Foundation and is now the Chair of the annual London St Patrick’s Day Ball.

SEAN O’DRISCOLL Managing Director The Galldris Group Sean O’Driscoll co-founded Galldris Construction with his business partner Dónal Gallagher in 1998. The pair originally operated from an office within their homes but with a can-do attitude they have gone on to build a hugely successful firm with longstanding client relationships.

DERMOT O’GRADY Chief Executive, Ardent Tide Contracting Solutions Company Ardent Tide is one of the largest CIS payroll companies in Britain. Dermot O’Grady has also been honoured with the Freedom of the City of London.

TOM O’MAHONY Managing Director Maylim With over two decades of experience across civil engineering and infrastructure, Tom O’Mahony specialises in highway projects and urban regeneration. After spending a large part of his career at Skanska holding responsibility for the delivery of all infrastructure projects, he moved on to take role of MD at Maylim in 2009.

Beyond leading the management and growth of the business, Tom remains active in participation across all client projects and is instrumental in managing Maylim’s commercial partnerships.

DAN O’NEILL, Co-Founder O’Neill & Brennan Group Dan O’Neill, from Galway, graduated from NUIG in 1981 and moved to London to study at St Mary’s in Twickenham. Whilst there, he was introduced to construction and has been involved in the industry ever since. Dan, alongside Gerry Brennan, set up the O’Neill & Brennan Group in 1990.

TIMOTHY O’SULLIVAN Managing Director Danny Sullivan Group Timothy O’Sullivan is a rising star of the construction industry in Britain. As Managing Director of the Danny

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DEREK PLATT Owner & Founder Platt & Reilly Donegal native Derek Platt, along with the other owners of Platt & Reilly, has founded and brought the company to a £36million annual turnover in the UK and €25million annual turnover in Ireland. The company is currently completing the drylining for residential projects including: Carillion’s Battersea Power Station, Sisk’s Wembley and McAlpine’s at Fitzroy Place.

It is also completing projects for the Berkeley Group and Barrett London.

Established in 2001 Platt & Reilly are one of the UK and Ireland’s largest and most competent partition and ceiling contractors. The company has delivered some of the most prestigious projects both in Ireland and the UK, including London’s The Shard and Olympic Park and Dublin Airport T2.

MICHAEL QUINN Owner & Director Kylemore Ltd With over 30 years’ experience in the construction industry Michael Quinn is the owner and director of Kylemore Services Ltd with Eamon Lynam, who is also the founder of sister company, Quants Surveying Services LLP. ANTHONY REDMOND UK Mainland Branch Manager PHL Hydraulics With over two decades experience, Anthony Redmond is a driving force at PHL Hydraulics - a London company that manufactures, hires and supplies post tensioning equipment including jacks, grout pumps, strand dispensers, anchor chair boxes, and hydraulic torque tools.

DAVID REILLY Financial Director, John Reilly Civil Engineering Ltd Established by three brothers in 1986 as a civil engineering and groundworks company, over the years John Reilly Civil Engineering has grown and developed from its Hampshire and Dorset base to much of the south of England.

JOHN REILLY Chairman, John Reilly Civil Engineering Ltd Established by three brothers in 1986 as a civil engineering and groundworks company, over the years John Reilly Civil Engineering has grown and developed from its Hampshire and Dorset base to much of the south of England.

MICHAEL REILLY Managing Director, John Reilly Civil Engineering Ltd See above.

GERRY ROCHFORD Director, Rochford Construction Ltd Founded in 1986, Gerry Rochford is one of the directors at Rochford who has helped steer the family-owned company to success. Founded in 1986

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the firm has grown from a traditional paving contractor into a wellrespected Groundworks RC Frames and Paving Contractor.

PAUL TIMLIN, Managing Director, Coinford Group As a key player in the construction industry and at the helm of leading groundworks and concrete frames specialist, Coinford’s Paul Timlin is part of an innovative team working across surveying, planning, estimating and engineering from tender stage, through construction and onto completion. The former Operations Director tok on the role of MD in 2014.

STEPHEN WALSH Chairman, The Walsh Group Headquartered in London and with a reputation for excellence, the group estimates 85 per cent of its work is from repeat business. One of its latest residential projects, Cobalt Lane in Battersea, has been shortlisted in the Community or Residential Structures category of the 2016 Structural Engineering Awards.

MIKE WRIGHT Managing Director PHD Modular Access Services Ltd PHD Scaffolding was founded by Bernard Dwyer in 1984 in Middlesex.

Iconic projects have included The Houses of Parliament; Terminal 2: Dublin Airport; London Olympics 2012 and the recent QEOP Stadium Transformation for West Ham United.

HEALERS Healthcare, medicine, veterinary & pharmaceuticals PROFESSOR NOEL FITZPATRICK Founder, Fitzpatrick Referrals Professor Noel Fitzpatrick, originally from Laois, opened Britain’s largest dedicated small animal orthopaedic and neuro-surgical veterinary practice in Surrey in 1997. He has featured in two episodes of ITV’s Heartbeat, both as a vet and a sheep rustler.

DR CATHERINE HALLAHAN Founder Platform Medicals Led by Mayo native and University College Cork Dentistry graduate Dr Catherine Hallahan, London-based Platform Medicals is an expert team of medical professionals dedicated to working to promote physical and mental health well-being within organisations by providing a comprehensive medical service to companies so that they can properly assess the health and well-being of their staff.

ANT HANLON Founder & CEO, Leeds Irish Health and Homes Ant Hanlon set up Leeds Irish Health and Homes, a charitable organisation to

offer a variety of services and support to the community.

MARY HAUGHEY Deputy Chair of Norbrook Laboratories Mary Haughey, Baroness Ballyedmond, along with other family members, own Norbrook Laboratories, the world’s leading veterinary pharmaceutical company.

It was founded by the late Lord Ballyedmond who died in a helicopter accident in 2014.

LIAM LEHANE Assistant Director of Operations, Resilience, London Ambulance Service Educated at Bishop Ward Catholic School, London Liam Lehane has been Assistant Director for 22 years.

MAURICE MALONE CEO Birmingham Irish Association Born in Birmingham to Irish parents, Malone has been with Birmingham Irish Association, formerly Irish in Birmingham, since 2004. He previously worked in Adult Social Care & Health for Birmingham City Council.

NORMAN McKINLEY Executive Director of UK Operations British Red Cross Norman McKinley, a graduate from Queens University Belfast also holds an MBA from the Ulster Business School at the University of Ulster. He now lives in Gloucestershire.

JOE MULLIGAN OBE Head of First Aid Education British Red Cross Joe Mulligan, originally from Callow, Co. Mayo, has been with the Red Cross for over 20 years. He lives in Bedfordshire.

EOIN O’NEILL Director of Sales and Customer Care, Aviva Healthcare A senior member of the Aviva Health Executive team, Eoin O’Neill is also President of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce. He is a graduate of UCD. DES SHIELDS Chief Executive, Aspen Healthcare Originally from Donegal, Des Shields is the chief executive of Aspen Healthcare, offering patients a range of private healthcare and clinical services.

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LAWMAKERS Lawyers, barristers, solicitors, security & legal minds Tribunals Service Formerly the Chief Information Officer at Channel 4, Kevin Gallagher joined Her Majesty’s Courts and Tribunals Service in 2015. The body is responsible for the administration of criminal, civil and family courts and tribunals throughout England and Wales.

IAN ACHESON Legal system observer From the North of Ireland, Ian Acheson served at command levels at a number of British prisons. He is now Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. He is an EU-recognised expert on Youth Justice and has lectured and written about radicalisation in prison custody.

GRACE AYLWARD Solicitor, Herbert Smith Freehills Grace Aylward is a Senior Associate at Herbert Smith Freehills, and serves on the Executive Committee of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

DANIEL BRENNAN Barrister at Matrix Chambers Daniel Joseph Brennan (75) KCSG, QC is a Labour life peer — he sits as Baron Brennan — and remains a senior associate at Matrix Chambers. He is also a member of the bars of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He was educated at St. Bede’s Grammar School, Bradford, and graduated with a Bachelor of Law degree from Manchester University.

ALAN BURKE Partner, White & Case Alan Burke is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of global law firm White & Case, where he leads teams on complex cross-border deals from the Firm’s London office. His experience advising clients spans a range of business sectors including energy, infrastructure, healthcare and financial institutions.

DERMOT CASEY Barrister, Coram Chambers London From Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Dermot Casey was called to the bar in 1994. Prior to that he worked as a mental health and child protection social worker.

JUDGE SHEELAGH MARY CANAVAN Judge Sheelagh Mary Canavan is a circuit judge on the South-eastern Circuit based at Snaresbrook Crown Court.

MAIRIN CASEY Coroner, Nottingham From Co. Kerry, Mairin Casey began work at the Crown Prosecution Service in 1987. She has been coroner in Nottingham since 2011, the first woman to fill that that role.

MICK CREEDON Former Chief Constable, Derbyshire Constabulary Mick Creedon was Chief Constable in Derbyshire until his retirement in June 2017. His grandfather left Co. Cork in 1914 to fight in the First World War.

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GLOBAL VIEW: Alan Burke Eventually hospitalised (after four years of gas, and suffering from trench foot) in England, he never went home – one Creedon line had arrived in England.

KERRY ANNE CURRIE Barrister, Thomas More Chambers Kerry Anne Currie, who studied law at Queen’s University Belfast, is a barrister at the Thomas More Chambers where she specialises in crime, family, immigration, public and human rights.

She is Vice-Chair of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

ALAN DAVIS Partner, Pinsent Masons With a Law degree and Diploma in European Law from University College Dublin, Alan Davis is Partner, Head of Competition, EU & Trade, Pinsent Masons LLp. SIMON EDENS Chief Constable, Northamptonshire Simon Edens, from the North of Ireland, became Chief Constable of Northamptonshire in 2015. He transferred from the RUC transferred to Cambridgeshire Constabulary in 1991 where he first worked as a patrol officer in Peterborough.

DAVID ENGLISH Customer Contact Advisor, Independent Police Complaints Commission David English, from Ravensdale in Co. Louth, studied at Lancaster University.

His role at the IPCC involves evaluating the validity of appeals and advising on the complaints process.

KATHLEEN GARRETT Partner, Arthur Cox, London London-based finance lawyer Kathleen Garrett trained in Dublin with Arthur Cox and has been a partner in the firm since 1998. She specialises in domestic and cross border finance, corporate transactions, aviation and loan portfolios.

KEVIN GALLAGHER Digital Change Director, Her Majesty’s Courts and

PROFESSOR CONOR GEARTY Professor of Human Rights Law, London School of Economics From Abbeylara, Co. Longford, Conor Gearty graduated in law from University College Dublin before embarking on an academic career. He is also a barrister and a founder member of Matrix chambers, from where he continues to practise.

CATHERINE GILFEDDER Solicitor Catherine Gilfedder is Cambridgeeducated lawyer and Senior Associate at law firm Dentons, specialising in the International Arbitration Group. She is a member of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

PATRICK HARTE Barrister, Temple Gardens London-based barrister Patrick Harte joined chambers in 2008. He is a founding committee member of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

CAROLINE HAUGHEY Barrister, Furnival Chambers Caroline Haughey prosecutes and defends across a wide range of the most serious and high profile criminal cases. She is a daughter of Mary Haughey, Baroness Ballyedmond.

BRIAN HUTTON former Appeal Lord, retired QC Brian Hutton, born in Belfast, was Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland and British Lord of Appeal. One of his most high profile appointments was as chair of the inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of scientist David Kelly, a weapons inspector with the United Nations Special Commission in Iraq.

BARONESS HELENA KENNEDY Barrister, broadcaster Helena Kennedy is renowned for her work on human rights. She was born in Glasgow to Joshua Patrick and Mary Kennedy, both committed Labour activists. Kennedy still regularly attends Mass and professes that her Catholicism “remains very much part of who I am”, even though she eschews its more traditional values.

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SINEAD MAC LUA Senior Lawyer, Bank of Ireland Sinead Mac Lua’s career has concentrated on dispute resolution work in banking, property, professional negligence matters as well as fraud, insolvency and multi-party claims. Her father, Brendan Mac Lua was a co-founder and editor of The Irish Post.

MARY KAYE Partner, Shakespeare Martineau Based in Birmingham, Mary Kaye was born and educated in Limerick, arriving in Britain in 1977. She is the Group Chair of Private Capital Group at Shakespeare Martineau.

ANDY KERMAN Senior Partner, Kerman & Co. With family roots in Co. Wexford, Andy Kerman co-founded Kerman & Co along with Daniel O’Connell in 1998.

During a long career Andy Kerman has advised Heads of State, entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life on a wide range of issues.

VALERIE LAWLOR Partner, McCann Fitzgerald Alongside Hugh Beattie, Valerie Lawlor overseas McCann Fitzgerald’s London office. McCann FitzGerald was the first major Irish law firm to establish offices in London in 1986.

FIONNUALA LYNCH Tax Lawyer at McCarthy Denning Fionnuala Lynch is a Tax Partner at McCarthy Denning and Consultant Lawyer for Jurit LLP. She was educated at Oxford.

RONAN MAGUIRE Principle Solicitor & Director, Maguires Solicitors With offices in London and Manchester legal firm Maguires was founded in 2008 by Ronan Maguire. His first job was as a criminal litigation clerk in his native Enniskillen in 1993.

PROFESSOR AILEEN McCOLGAN Professor of Human Rights Law at King’s College London From Derry, Aileen McColgan is a British barrister and academic. She is an expert in labour law, discrimination and human rights. She works as a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers.

TONY McDAID Chief Executive and Director, No5 Chambers Tony McDaid is the longest serving member of No5 Chambers’ administration team. Sitting on the Professional Practice Committee of the Bar Council, he is also a council member of the Birmingham Law Society.

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GRÁINNE MELLON Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Gráinne Mellon is a public and employment law barrister who also specialises in discrimination, human rights and international law. She is Chair of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

DAVID MOLLOY Partner, Arthur Cox, Head of London Office David Molloy is a partner in the firm’s Finance Group specialising in structuring, negotiating, implementing and restructuring a range of finance transactions.

SIOBHAN MORIARTY Solicitor Graduating in law in Dublin, Siobhan Moriarty came to London in the 1980s.

She was appointed as General Counsel at Diageo, one of the world’s biggest drinks company, in 2013.

ANNA MULLINS Solicitor, Forsters LLP Anna Mullins specialises in all areas of commercial and residential property litigation. She is also Secretary of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

KATIE MULROY Solicitor Katie Mulroy, Trinity College Dublin, is a solicitor at Capsticks Solicitors LLP. She is a member of London Irish Lawyers’ Association. Licensed to practise in both the Republic of Ireland and in England & Wales, she was previously with Callan and Tansey in Co. Sligo.

TOM MUNGOVAN Senior Associate Lawyer DWF London Irish lawyer Tom Mungovan is a Senior Associate at DWF working in the areas of commercial and general litigation, insurance and professional negligence.

DANIEL O’CONNELL Co-founder & Managing Partner, Kerman & Co. Born in Tipperary Town, Daniel O’Connell studied law at University College Dublin. He co-founded Kerman & Co with Andy Kerman in 1998.

GREG Ó CEALLAIGH Barrister, Garden Court Chambers Greg Ó Ceallaigh is a barrister specialising in human rights, asylum and immigration law. He is also a member of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

MAEVE O’ROURKE Barrister, Thomas Bingham Chambers Co. Dublin-born Maeve O’Rourke was called to the Bar in 2012. She is known for her pro bono work with the group Justice for Magdalenes, aiming to secure compensation for survivors of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries.

CLIONA O’TUAMA Founder, Cliona O’Tuama Cliona O’Tuama set up her own private law firm specialising in probate, tax and trusts work and charity law in 1994. She specialises in probate, tax and trusts work and charity law, and has practises.

Her company The firm undertakes English probate work for many firms of solicitors in Ireland, from sole practitioners in rural Ireland to some of the major Dublin firms.

GARETH PEIRCE Lawyer & human rights activist Gareth Peirce, who has received a Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad, is a British solicitor and human rights activist. She has advocated in a number of high-profile cases, including the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six. CATHERINE ROBERTS Barrister at the Financial Conduct Authority Catherine Roberts graduated in law at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is Associate Lawyer at The Financial Conduct Authority, Enforcement and Market Oversight Division. The Financial Conduct Authority is the conduct regulator for 56000 financial services firms and financial markets in Britain and the North of Ireland. She is also treasurer of the London Irish Lawyers Association.

KIRSTY ROGERS Executive Partner (Manchester) & Head of Client Development, DWF Born in Uganda, Kirsty Rogers’ mother is from Co. Down, her father Scottish. She is alsChair of the Board of Governors at Delamere Academy, Cheshire. She maintains strong ties with Co. Down.

CAMPAIGNER FOR JUSTICE: Gareth Pierce SEAN SEXTON Founding Partner, MSB Solicitors With Irish roots in Clare and Kilkenny Sean is one of the founding partners of MSB. He appears as an advocate and specialises in the area of criminal fraud prosecutions.

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MOTIVATORS Club owners, sports players, managers & promoters NIALL ANNETT Rugby player Belfast man Niall Annett (26) has 20 caps with Ulster Rugby. He is now hooker with the Worcester Warriors.

ROBBIE BRADY Footballer Dublin-born Brady currently plays for Burnley. He has represented the Republic of Ireland at all levels.

HARRY ARTER Footballer Arter plays as a midfielder with AFC Bournemouth. Born in Sidcup, he is a Republic of Ireland international player.

GARY BREEN Football coach, former player Born in Hendon, Gary Patrick Breen is a former footballer who made more than 500 appearances in the Football League and Premier League. He won 63 caps for the Republic of Ireland, and played in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

LEON BEST Footballer Best is striker for Ipswich Town. Born in Nottingham he is a Republic of Ireland international player.

KYRAN BRACKEN Dancer, charity worker, former rugby player Kyran Patrick Bracken, born in Dublin, opted to play for England at rugby. He was capped 51 times. After his rugby career he enjoyed a successful spell with Dancing on Ice and is now a popular after-dinner speaker and motivation speaker. Currently he is an Honorary President of the rugby charity Wooden Spoon improving the lives of disadvantaged children and young people in Britain and Ireland.

He is also an Ambassador of the Royal National Children’s Foundation.

BARONNESS KARREN BRADY OF KNIGHTSBRIDGE, CBE Sporting Executive, broadcaster, writer and Conservative Life Peer in the House of Lords - Karren Brady was born in London to an Irish father and Italian mother. She is currently Vice-chair of West Ham United FC and appears on BBC’s The Apprentice alongside Lord Alan Sugar.

BRENDIE BRIEN Secretary of the Provincial Council of Britain GAA From Co. Galway, Brendie Brien is formerly President of British GAA. TONY CASCARINO Sports pundit, journalist, former player Born in Kent, Tony Cascarino turned out 88 times for the Republic of Ireland.

Currently he is a sports presenter and journalist.

JACK CHARLTON Former international football coach, former player A member of England’s World Cup winning team of 1966, Charlton was manager of the Republic of Ireland soccer side for 10 years. He was awarded honorary Irish citizenship in 1996.

OWEN COYLE Football manager Owen Columba Coyle (51) born in Glasgow, turned out once for the Republic of Ireland international soccer side. He now manages Ross County in the Scottish Premiership.

VER DINGLEY Diver From Harrogate, Dingley qualified for the 2016 Olympics and gained an 8th place for Ireland. He qualifies for Irish nationality through an Irish born grandparent.

MICK CROSSAN President of London Irish Rugby Mick Crossan, from Cavan, is leader of the consortium of London Irish businessmen who took over the club in December 2013. A successful businessman he owns 85pc of UK-based recycling and waste firm, Powerday. He has also been officially recognised for his support and commitment to the London Amateur Boxing Association. He recently paid tribute to Bob Casey, Operations Director and then the CEO, who has left the club to return to Ireland in 2017.

SHANE DUFFY Footballer Derry-born Shane Patrick Michael Duffy plays as a defender for English club Brighton & Hove Albion. He initially played for Northern Ireland at youth international level before switching to the Republic of Ireland.

GREG CUNNINGHAM Footballer Galway-born Cunningham plays as a left back for Preston North End and the Republic of Ireland national team.

KENNY CUNNINGHAM Former footballer Dublin-born Cunningham made more than 500 appearances as a defender in the Football League and Premier League playing for Millwall, Wimbledon, Birmingham City and Sunderland. He turned out for the Republic 72 times.

CIARAN CLARK Footballer Harrow-born Clark is a defender/ midfielder for Newcastle United. He is a regular Republic of Ireland player.

DARRON GIBSON Footballer Darron Thomas Gibson, from Derry, is a defender for Everton, and an international player for the Republic of Ireland.

SIMON COX Footballer Reading-born striker Simon Cox plays for Southend and the Republic of Ireland.

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STEVE FINNAN Former footballer, property developer Limerick-born Finnan’s longest playing stint was with Fulham and Liverpool.

He played for Ireland 52 times. His charity work has included time spent in the Gambia, providing irrigation for drought susceptible areas. Now living in London, he is involved in property firm Finnan Developments.

DAVID FORDE Footballer Forde, from Galway, is goalkeeper with Cambridge United and the Republic of Ireland.

STEVE COLLINS Former boxer, farmer Dublin-born Stephen Collins has been WBO boxing world champion at middleweight and super-middleweight level. He now lives on a farm in St Albans and has done some acting.

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ROB ELLIOT Footballer Elliot plays as goalkeeper for Newcastle United and the Republic of Ireland national football team.

KEVIN FOLEY Footballer Luton-born Kevin Patrick Foley is a defender for Isthmian League Premier Division club Billericay. He turned out eight times for the Republic.

SÉAMUS COLEMAN Footballer Séamus Coleman from Killybegs, Donegal, was originally a Gaelic footballer, before beginning his football career with Sligo Rovers. Now with Everton, he is the current captain of the Republic of Ireland national side.

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KATIE-GEORGE DUNLEVY Cyclist Katie-George Dunlevy, whose father is from Donegal, competes for Ireland in cycling. Katie-George, who is blind, won gold at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in a team trial event.

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qualified to play for Ireland through his Irish father. He was capped 73 times for the Republic.

CHRIS HUGHTON Manager Brighton & Hove Albion, former footballer Christopher Hughton, the son of an Irish mother and a Ghanaian father became, in 1979, the first mixed race player to represent the Republic of Ireland, winning 53 caps.

DAVID HUMPHREYS Director of Rugby, Gloucester Rugby Belfast-born Humphreys played 72 times for Ireland, scoring 560 points. He has recently signed for Gloucester Rugby.

STEPHEN HUNT Former footballer Stephen Patrick Hunt played as a left midfielder or left back in the English League. He won 39 caps for the Republic.

DENIS IRWIN Former footballer Denis Joseph Irwin from Cork played as a full-back from 1983 to 2004, mainly for Manchester United, who he turned out for 368 times. In addition, he gained 56 international caps for the Republic.

He now works as a sports presenter.

PAT JENNINGS OBE Football coach Pat Jennings was born in Newry, Co. Down and is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers these islands have produced. He played 119 games for Northern Ireland as a goalkeeper. He lives in Broxbourne, Hertfordshire.

ED JOYCE Cricketer Dublin-born Ed Joyce is best known as the batsman who played for two different countries in successive World Cups. Joyce switched to England for the 2007 World Cup becoming the first Irishman in the modern game to play for England. He switched back to Ireland for the next World Cup in 2011.

He currently turns out for Sussex County Cricket Club.

football after having played 134 times for the Republic of Ireland - making him the Republic’s second most capped player of all time after Robbie Keane.

Seán Hackett was born in Antrim, grew up in Tyrone, and moved to England in 1997. He has been associated with the GAA since the age of eight, and works as a real estate litigator.

PAUL GREEN Footballer Paul Jason Green was born in Yorkshire.

He currently plays as a midfielder for League One club Oldham Athletic, and is a Republic of Ireland international player.

JOHN JOSEPH ‘JJ’ HANRAHAN Rugby player JJ Hanrahan from Currow in Co. Kerry, made 64 appearances for Munster before departing for England. He now plays for Northampton.

JEFF HENDRICK Footballer Dublin-born Jeffrey Patrick Hendrick plays as a midfielder for Premier League club Burnley and is a Republic of Ireland international player.

WES HOOLAHAN Footballer Wes Hoolahan, born in Dublin, is a midfielder for Norwich City and is a Republic of Ireland international player.

SEÁN HACKETT President of Provincial Council of Britain GAA

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RAY HOUGHTON Sports analyst, former player Raymond James “Ray” Houghton

JOE KINNEAR Former footballer, manager Joseph Patrick Kinnear played as a defender, spending most of his career with Tottenham Hotspur. Born in Dublin, his family moved to England when he was seven, and young Joe was brought up on a council estate in Watford.

Internationally, as well as managing the Republic of Ireland, he has also been coach for India and Nepal.

ROBBIE KEANE Footballer Ireland’s most capped player of all times with 146 caps, Robbie Keane spent his longest time in his club career with Tottenham Hotspur.

ROY KEANE Manager Roy Keane, from Cork, is the joint-most successful Irish footballer of all time, having won 19 major trophies, 17 of which came at Manchester United, in his club career. Currently the assistant manager of the Republic of Ireland national side, he lives in Hale near Liverpool.

STEPHEN KELLY Footballer Dublin-born Stephen Kelly is a defender with Rotherham United. He has been capped for the Republic 38 times.

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JOHN LACEY, London GAA Chairman A native of Co. Laois, Lacey is a stalwart of British GAA and is the current Chairman of London GAA. He led this year’s redevelopment of Ruislip helping to transform the grounds into a start-of-the-art sports facility.

NEIL LENNON Football manager Lurgan-born Neil Lennon (46) is the manager of Edinburgh side Hibernian. He made 40 appearances for Northern Ireland, before becoming manager of Celtic.

CORNELIUS LYSAGHT BBC horseracing correspondent From Irish aristocratic roots on both sides of his family (Lysaght and Nolan) Cornelius Lysaght took up the position of horseracing correspondent at the BBC in 2001.

DARRAGH MacANTHONY Chairman, Peterborough United Darragh MacAnthony took over as chairman at Peterborough United in 2006 at the age of 30, making him the youngest chairman in the Football League. MacAnthony has been involved in a range of businesses from satellite television to property.

AIDAN McGEADY Footballer Paisley-born Aiden McGeady began his league career with Celtic. He is now a winger for Sunderland. He has earned 86 caps for the Republic.

MARK McCALL Director of Rugby, Head Coach Saracens From Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, McCall is a former coach of Ulster. He played 13 times for the Ireland national rugby union team.

McCall has been the Saracens head coach since the 2010-2011 season.

MICK McCARTHY Football manager, player Michael Joseph McCarthy, born in Barnsley, played 57 times for the Republic. He went on to manage the national side guiding them to the knock-out stages of the 2002 World Cup. McCarthy currently manages Ipswich Town.

FRANK McCARTNEY Chairman of London Irish Rugby Frank McCartney is an international businessman with many years’ experience in the hospitality, food and beverage industries. He was chairman and managing director of FMC Catering, and Chairman of the Sports and Leisure Division of Compass Group, prior to his retirement.

BARRY McGUIGAN President, Professional Boxing Association Finbar Patrick McGuigan, aka The Clones Cyclone, was the WBO world heavyweight champion in the featherweight division. He is now the CEO and founder of Cyclone Promotions, a sports promotions company. McGuigan, who lives in Whitstable, Kent, is President, Professional Boxing Association.

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SHANE McGUIGAN Boxing coach An innovative boxing coach, Shane

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PADDY McNALLY Founder Allsport Management Donegal-born Paddy McNally, a former racing driver, has now retired from the Formula 1 hospitality business having founded Formula 1 trackside advertising company Allsport Management. He owns the former Wiltshire home of James Bond author, Ian Fleming.

ANDREW McQUAID Director, Trinity Sports Management Trinity Sports Management is a leading athlete management company whose client list includes elite talent from 13 countries around the globe. The company was founded by Andrew McQuaid whose grandfather, father and brother all cycled competitively and represented Ireland at international level.

PAUL McSHANE Footballer Paul McShane plays as a defender for Reading. The Wicklow man has played 33 times for the Republic.

BRENDAN MACKEN Rugby player Brendan Macken (26), from Dublin, is a rugby player who currently plays for English club Wasps.

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TOM MOHAN Chairman, Tir Chonaill Gaels From Frosses, Co. Donegal, Tom Mohan is also managing director of property company Reel Estates.

NIALL MORRIS Rugby player A former Leinster player, Dublin-born Niall Morris (29) has turned out for the Leicester Tigers more than 75 times.

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TERRY NEILL Sports commentator, businessman, former footballer Belfast-born Terry Neill captained and later managed Arsenal. He turned out 59 times for Northern Ireland. Since retiring from footballer Neill has opened sports bars and is involved in the Hub (London), a total media management company.

DONNACHA O’CALLAGHAN Rugby player Cork-born Donnacha O’Callaghan (38) has turned out 94 times for the Ireland side, four times for the British and Irish Lions. He now plays for Worcester Warriors.

JAMIE O’CALLAGHAN Rugby league international player An Ireland international representative back, O’Callaghan has played his club rugby, since 2008, at London Broncos (84 outings) as well as London Skolars and Hemel Stags.

NOEL O’SULLIVAN London GAA A Kerry native, Noel O’Sullivan has been instrumental in the development of Gaelic Games in Britain. He is originally from Killarney and is involved with a number of Irish community and charity events.

BRENDAN O’DOWDA Licensed Intermediary at Summit Sports Management Brendan O’Dowda helps professional footballers look after their business interests at Summit Sports Management. He was previously Assistant Chief Constable at Thames Valley Police. His father was the singer Brendan O’Dowda, famous for the definitive interpretation of Percy French songs.

NIALL QUINN Businessman, sports commentator, former footballer Originally a Gaelic footballer from Dublin, Niall Quinn was capped for the Republic of Ireland football side 98 times. After a long career at top English clubs, he became manager, then chairman at Sunderland. Today he is involved in various business ventures from IT to horse racing.

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JOHN O’SHEA Former footballer Waterford-born John O’Shea, plays as a defender for Sunderland. He is, to date, the third most capped player for the Republic.

CONOR O’SHEA Head Coach, Italy Limerick-born Conor O’Shea, a former rugby player, represented Ireland, Lansdowne and London Irish. After six years as Director of Rugby with English side Harlequins, in early 2016 he left the club. He is now head coach of the Italian national team.

FRANK O’FARRELL Former football manager, player Cork-born O’Farrell is the only Irishman to have been manager (1971-1972) of Manchester United in its long history. He played for Cork United, West Ham United, Preston North End and Weymouth before taking up a managerial career.

KELLIE MALONEY Boxing promoter, manager Kellie Maloney (born Francis “Frank” Maloney in Peckham) managed Lennox Lewis to the Undisputed Heavyweight Championship of the World. She underwent gender reassignment in 2014. Her parents are Irish, and in the past considered becoming a Catholic priest. In the London mayoral election in 2004, Maloney was the UKIP candidate.

Born in Kilrea, Co. Derry, O’Neill studied law at Queen’s University Belfast before opting for a football career. He was capped 64 times for Northern Ireland; most of his club time was at Nottingham Forest, winning the European Cup twice. His managerial career has included spells at Leicester, Aston Villa, Celtic and Sunderland. He became manager of the Republic national side in 2013.

DAVID O’LEARY Former football manager, player O’Leary was born in Stoke Newington, London, but was brought up in Dublin after his family relocated. Most of O’Leary’s career was with Arsenal. His tally of 722 appearances still stands as a club record. He was capped 98 times for the Republic.

MARTIN O’NEILL OBE Manager Republic of Ireland

BRENDAN RODGERS Football manager Rodgers, from Carnlough on the Antrim coast, is currently manager of Celtic.

Beginning his career as a defender at Ballymena United, a medical condition forced him to retire from playing aged 20. Prior to taking up the Celtic post, he was manager of Liverpool.

ANTON RODGERS Footballer The son of Celtic manager Brendan Rogers, Anton – born in Reading – plays for Swindon Town. He has represented the Republic of Ireland at U19 level.

KEVIN SHEEDY, Football coach, former player Kevin Sheedy spent most of his playing career with Everton – with whom he won the FA Cup, European Cup Winners’ Cup and two Football League titles. Born in Wales, Sheedy played 46 times for the Republic of Ireland and scored the country’s first ever goal in a FIFA World Cup finals.

He is now an academy coach for Everton.

STEVE STAUNTON Former footballer, manager Steve Staunton, from Co. Louth, earned 102 caps for the Republic before managing the national side. His playing career is particularly notable for his time with Aston Villa and Liverpool.

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GARETH STEENSON Rugby player Dungannon-born Steenson (33) plays fly-half for the Exeter Chiefs. He has appeared over 100 times for the Chiefs, registering over 1,220 points.

PETER STRINGER Rugby player Peter Stringer from Cork played 98 times for Ireland in the number 9 position (hooker). He is currently with English side Worcester.

DENNIS TAYLOR Snooker player, sports commentator Dennis Taylor (68), from Coalisland, Co. Tyrone, is a retired professional snooker player, and currently a commentator on BBC2. In 1985 he won the famous ‘black ball’ World Championship against Steve Davis. Taylor is a long-time resident of Llay, near Wrexham.

ANDY TOWNSEND Sports commentator, former player Andy Townsend, from Maidstone in Kent, played in two World Cups for the Republic of Ireland, winning 70 caps.

IAN WHITTEN Rugby player From Lisburn, Ian Whitten has earned two Irish caps. The former Ulster man is now a vital part of the Exeter Chiefs’ backline, playing in the centre. He is now in his sixth season in the English West Country.

GARY WADDOCK Football manager Gary Patrick Waddock (born on St

Patrick’s Day 1962 in Kingsbury, London), is currently manager of Aldershot Town. He played 20 times for the Republic.

JON WALTERS Footballer Jon Walters plays as a striker for English side Burnley. From Merseyside, he is a Republic of Ireland international player.

OLLIE WALSH GAA Brothers Pearse Club Secretary Ollie Walsh left his native Athenry in 1962 and has championed the GAA in Huddersfield over five decades, holding various positions in the Brothers Pearse GAA club.

STEPHEN WARD Footballer Stephen Robert Ward, from Dublin, plays for Burnely. He is a Republic of Ireland international player.

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SUSAN BOYLE Singer Susan Magdalane Boyle was born in West Lothian into a family with Donegal roots.

She became an overnight sensation after appearing on Britain’s Got Talent.

SEÁN CANNON musician Seán Cannon, born in Galway (1940), settled in England in the 1960s, subsequently becoming a wellrespected solo act in British folk clubs. He joined the Dubliners in 1982, staying with them till their disbandment 2012 — after which he became a member of the Dublin Legends. He still lives in Coventry, and performs in The Cannons with his two sons Robert and James.

KEVIN BURKE Musician Kevin Burke was born in London to parents from Co. Sligo. Considered one of the finest living Irish fiddlers, his style has greatly influenced traditional music.

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CARA DILLON Singer, songwriter From Dungiven, Co. Derry, Cara Dillonis an award-winning singer. Now married to her musical collaborator Sam Lakeman, she lives in Frome, Wiltshire where she is pivotal in the town’s thriving music scene.

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DONOVAN Singer, songwriter Donovan Philips Leitch was born in Glasgow to a family with Irish roots. His ballad singing, songwriting and guitar playing is said to have influenced a wide range of artists. Along with his family, he has lived in Co. Cork for many years.

PATRICK DOYLE Composer From Lanarkshire, Patrick Doyle is a long-time collaborator with Belfast actor-director Kenneth Branagh. He is known for his compositions for films such as Henry V (1989), Sense and Sensibility (1995), Hamlet (1996), and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, plus many more.

JOHNNY FEAN Musician Johnny Fean is a member of Horslips.

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MICHAEL FLATLEY Dance legend, entrepreneur & musician Michael Flatley first stepped onto the world stage when he toured with The Chieftains. In 1994 he changed the face of Irish dance forever with his breath-taking creation of Riverdance.

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DÓNAL GALLAGHER Director, Strange Music Ltd The brother of guitar legend Rory Gallagher, Dónal Gallagher was brought up in Derry. He has ensured his brother’s legacy has been kept alive.

LIAM AND NOEL GALLAGHER Musicians William John Paul Gallagher was born in Manchester, to Irish parents Thomas and Peggy Gallagher. Along with his brother he formed the seminal band Oasis.

NIALL GALLAGHER Former Chairman Irish Heritage Educated in Cork, Niall Gallagher has retired from banking, and has devotes his time to working with Irish Heritage, a voluntary arts organisation in London.

THERESA GALLAGHER-MURPHY Scottish Regional Chair, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Theresa Gallagher-Murphy, whose roots lie in Donegal, is a tin-whistle player, flautist, and primary teacher with East Renfrewshire Council. She is head of Comhaltas in Scotland.

BOB GELDOF Musician, Campaigner, Political Activist, Author Lead singer of the Boomtown Rats, the Dublin man became globally famous after promoting Live Aid at Wembley.

He is also a successful businessman, largely in the communications and media sector. He received the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from The Irish Post.

JEM FINER Singer, songwriter, musician Co-writer of A Fairytale of New York along with Shane MacGowan, Finer is one of the founding members of The Pogues.

PADDY FOY Events manager Paddy Foy has been events manager at Celtic Dreams Promotions for 20 years.

He also served as Club Chairman for Midlands Republic of Ireland Soccer Supporters Club for 15 years.

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JOHN LYDON Singer, songwriter Better known as Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols, John Lydon was brought up in north London, the son of Galway parents. He was a pivotal figure in the punk movement of the 1970s.

CATHAL McCONNELL Musician Cathal McConnell (73) is a vastly influential traditional musician and teacher from Co. Fermanagh. He lives in Edinburgh where he is part of the band Boys of the Lough.

JOHNNY MCDAID Musician, producer & songwriter Johnny McDaid is the prolific songwriter and producer behind an aray of recent chart hits with stars including Ed Sheeran, Rag ‘n’bone Man, Robbie Williams and Pink. Born in Dublin and raised in Derry he is a member of hit band Snow Patrol. In 2017 he received The Irish Post Outstanding Contribution to Music Award. He lives in London and divides his time between the UK and LA where his partner, the actress, producer and director Courteney Cox lives. In 2017 he also became an Honorary Fellow of The Institute of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool.

SHANE MacGOWAN Singer, songwriter Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan was born in Kent to Irish parents. He spent much of his early childhood in Co. Tipperary. His band The Pogues transformed Irish folk music, and in 1987, along with Jem Finer, he wrote one of the greatest Christmas songs of the 20th century, A Fairytale of New York.

WHAT’S THE STORY: Noel Gallagher before his son’s birth. He was brought up by his mother who is of Irish ancestry. As well as extensively recording and playing Irish music, Harding has presented two travel programmes on Ireland. He also wrote the travel book Footloose in the West of Ireland, and a poetry book The Connemara Cantos.

LOUISE KEEGAN Founder, Keegan Academy of Irish Dancing Louise Keegan has family roots in Leitrim and Roscommon. Along with her brother James, she founded the academy three years ago in Manchester.

NIALL HORAN Singer From Mullingar, Horan is a member of One Direction, put together after five singers appeared individually on the X Factor. Horan lives in London.

JAMES KEEGAN Dancer Keegan, whose parents come from Roscommon and Leitrim, had to choose between a career with Manchester United or Irish dancing. He opted for the latter, and stars in Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance.

DILLIE KEANE Singer, songwriter Louise Miriam ‘Dillie’ Keane is an Olivier Award-nominated actress, singer and comedian. Best known as a member of Fascinating Aïda, her father was a Co. Mayo doctor, her mother from Tralee. Dillie Keane now lives in Oxford.

MICHAEL KEEGAN-DOLAN Choreographer Dublin-born choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan has worked as a dancer and choreographer across a wide range of theatre, dance and opera projects.

He founded dance company Fabulous Beast which concentrates on

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GARETH MALONE OBE Choirmaster & broadcaster Gareth Malone’s father James grew up in Scotland in an Irish family; his mother is also of Irish descent. Until 2009 he worked for the London Symphony Orchestra. Today he is best known for choir-focused programmes on BBC 2.

MORRISSEY Singer, songwriter Steven Patrick Morrissey, professionally known as Morrissey, was born to working-class Irish Catholics in Manchester. Founder member of The Smiths, he crafted some of the most enduring indie rock songs of the 1980s.

ROBIN MORTON musician, record producer An integral part of the traditional music scene in Belfast, Robin Morton (born 1939) from Co. Armagh, formed the Boys of the Lough folk group in 1967 along with Cathal McConnell and Tommy Gunn. He moved to

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Edinburgh in the late 1960s where he became manager of Scottish outfit the Battlefield Band, and founded Temple Records.

ANN MURRAY Opera singer Dublin-born Ann Murray has soloed at all of the world’s major opera houses, but today performs mainly at Covent Garden.

In 2012, she was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Diamond Jubilee Honours for services to music.

MICHAEL NEVIN Chair, Provincial Council of Britain for Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Michael Nevin, chair of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Britain has been involved with the organisation since 1988.

ANNE NOLAN Singer, actor One of the Nolan Sisters, Anne Nolan, born in Ireland, moved to Blackpool at the age of 11 to join her family working the northern clubs. She now has a solo career, has written her biography and continues with her charity work.

DENISE NOLAN Singer, actor After leaving the Nolan Sisters, Denise began a solo singing career. She has also starred as Mrs Johnstone in Blood Brothers — one of four Nolans to play the role.

JOHN NOLAN Co-founder and Chair of the Celtic and Irish Cultural Society From Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, now living in Crawley, West Sussex, John Nolan is also a board member of Irish in Britain.

MIKE NOLAN Singer From Dublin, Mike Nolan was one of the band Buck’s Fizz which won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1981. He still performs with other members of the original band. He lives in England.

CHARLIE O’CONNOR Member of Horslips Charles O’Connor, from Middlesbrough, plays concertina, mandolin, fiddle and guitar. Aside from his musical pursuits, he owns an antique shop in Whitby, The Stonehouse Emporium. continues on page 36

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s Vice-Chairman of West Ham United FC, a Senior Non-Executive Director for Simon Cowell’s Syco Entertainment and also Topshop Chairman, it’s little surprise the British Government called up Baroness Karren Brady to be a Business Ambassador and Women in Sport Advisor. Known to millions for her starring role alongside Lord Sugar on

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The Apprentice, what you might not know is that her story begins in Ireland. Ahead of accepting the 2017 Irish Post Outstanding Contribution to Business in Britain Award, Karren Brady tells SIOBHÁN BREATNACH about the search for her long-lost Irish family, what it takes to get to the top and why now is the time for new adventures.

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Describe what you were like growing up?

I am told I was fearless, opinionated and stubborn – not much has changed really!

How have you got to where you are today?

I left school at 18 and decided to go to straight to work rather than to university. I had been at boarding school since I was very young and I craved independence.

When you are at boarding school nothing is your own and you are not in control of making any of your own decisions - you eat what you are told, when you are told. You go to bed when you’re told, you wear what you are told etc, etc.

So I decided that if I was going to be independent I needed to have money, and although I didn’t know how you got money I presumed it started with a job! I went out and got a job working at Saatchi & Saatchi.

I was lucky, at 18 I knew what my core values were.

Core values are the principles of who you are and they sum up the things you believe in. They are the things that identify you; they are at the heart of what you stand for and they explain why you do things the way you do. Your core values are the parts of your personality that underpin your whole life. They are the things you come to rely on about yourself.

I was determined. I was ambitious, determined and I believed in myself. They are still my principles 30 years later. I started on £9k a year, almost like an apprentice and I have worked hard for the past 30 years. I have always pushed myself, taken risks and tried new things.

I had the philosophy that I would not get to the ripe old age of 48 and look back on my life and say ‘I wish I would have’ instead I tried hard at everything I did, I did it to the best of my ability and with integrity.

Eventually 30 years on I can look back and realise I am the best version of myself and my career as a result.

Who has been your biggest inspiration?

I have been very lucky to work with some wonderful people throughout my career.

My chairman David Sullivan and I have been working together for nearly 30 years and with that length of time comes an understanding, a respect and a mutual appreciation of each other. We have achieved so much together in that time and he is a constant source of inspiration to me.

I have sat on Simon Cowell’s board, he has a unique mix of creativity and business sense and is a true gentleman. So to answer the question, various people over various times have all had a positive influence on me.

I believe in life-long learning and I’m always open to new ways of doing things – I think the minute you think you know it all, you prove you actually don’t know anything at all.

How would you describe your business style?

THE BUSINESS OF SUCCESS: Baroness Karren Brady, pictured above and right, at Buckingham Palace holding her CBE with her husband Paul Peschisolido and children Sophia and Paolo; bottom right at the Leaders Sport Business Summit in London in 2016 (Pictures: Getty Images)

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I like to lead from the front. Never confuse leadership with management. Management is about setting out a series of goals and managing people to deliver them.

Leadership is about vision, and very often it is only you that can see it. The key to my style is communication. I like to be clear about where we are going, how we are going to get there and what

everyone’s role is in I like people to b to speak their mind in everything we do skills throughout th surround myself wi I have a great sen loyalty. I am a frank ask anyone to do a I believe in bein learnt over the pas with people, havin attitude are a winn

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yone’s role is in that journey. ke people to be free to have their own opinions, free eak their mind to encourage change and excellence erything we do. I like to encourage entrepreneurship throughout the organisation. I love enthusiasm and ound myself with enthusiastic people. ave a great sense of loyalty and that in itself breads ty. I am a frank and open person and I would never nyone to do anything I wouldn’t do myself. believe in being professional, and ultimately have nt over the past 30 years that people do business people, having a personality and a professional ude are a winning combination.

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upstanding, caring and thoroughly decent men you will ever meet. Born and bred in the East End, Bobby was a true sporting hero but down to earth. Loved by millions but always approachable.

I don’t think we will ever be lucky enough to be blessed with another man in his mould.

From football to The Apprentice, is there such a thing as a typical day?

No day is typical! Alongside my work at West Ham FC, I also chair Taveta retail group which owns high-street fashion brands like Topshop. I sit on the board of Global University Systems (GUS) which is an international network of higher-education institutions that has educated over 40,000 students worldwide.

I chair Lifeskills, a programme funded by Barclays, which has helped close to five million young people with the transition from school to work. I am involved in filming The Apprentice for BBC and I have a new show on ITV next year called Give it a Year – about start-up businesses.

I am also a Peer in the House of Lords, where I speak and vote, so as you can see these are broad and varied business interests, roles and responsibilities.

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No day is ever the same. The only thing that never changes is that I start each day with a coffee and The Times’ Super Fiendish Sudoku, which I aim to finish within 10 mins.

What do you consider to be your greatest achievement to date?

Floating my business on the stock market in 1997, making me the youngest managing director of a PLC in the country at 27, was a highlight. Moving West Ham to the London Stadium was another. Being awarded my CBE for Services to Entrepreneurship and being an advocate for women in business, and then my elevation to the Lords were also highlights.

But perhaps the biggest achievement is to have found a career that I love, one that has been so rewarding for me and having been able to use that career to champion causes close to my heart and be a role model to other women who aspire to having a career in business.

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I have spent many happy weekends in Ireland, it’s a beautiful country full of beautiful people.

My father never knew his father, he has tried very hard to trace him but without luck. Even the expert team on Who Do You Think You Are? had no luck. We know he was from Cork and a businessman. But there are a lot of Bradys in Cork - so we don’t really know where to start!

What is it like being Lord Sugar’s advisor on The Apprentice?

I love the show, I enjoy spending time with the people I work with, Alan (Sugar) and Claude in particular, but also everyone who you do not see in front of the camera, but who make the show as fantastic as it is. From the camera men to the runners, the producers, directors and back room team, these are seriously talented people.

How do you spend your downtime?

Walking my dog, going out with friends, Sunday lunch with my kids (one is 21 and is living and working in London and the other is at

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Karren Brady: “My biggest achievement is to have found a career that I love” ■ Karren Brady was born in Edmonton, North London to an Irish father and an Italian mother.

■ Her career began in advertising sales after she left school.

■ She started out at Saatchi & Saatch before moving to LBC as a sales executive. She then joined David Sullivan’s Sport Newspapers Ltd and became a director within a year.

■ In 1993, aged just 23, she was appointed MD of Birmingham City FC – when the club was in administration.

STAR POWER: Karren Brady, Lord Alan Sugar and Nick Hewer at the British Academy Television Awards; left celebrating West Ham’s victory in the npower Championship Playoff Final at Wembley Stadium in 2012 (Picture: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images)

university), having the odd massage, watching a box set with my husband on the sofa. Things I can’t stand and never do are shopping or going to the gym!

What has been the happiest moment of your life to date?

Undoubtedly the birth of both of my children.

Of all the titles I have, the one that suits me most, is ‘working mother’. My family and my work are the two most important things to me and I would not give either of them up.

What has been the saddest?

Probably the loss of my grandmother, who was such a positive influence in my life and seeing how heartbroken my mother was.

Death is so final and so hard to get over as you feel the loss every single day and out of the blue. For example, I would be doing something quite normal and my mother would cry and say ‘Nanny would have loved to have seen that’ - it’s incredibly sad.

I think she would have been so proud had

she seen me walk into the House of Lords. I wore her wedding ring that day so she would be close to me.

Is there anything you would change in your life?

I was recently asked about the most adventurous travel experience I’ve had or the most remote place I’ve ever been and I realised there wasn’t one! So I have made a decision to spend more time travelling.

I seriously fancy a cruise next year…I love the idea of progressing and travelling at the same time, so I am looking into that at the moment.

With my children now grown up I feel it’s time for my husband and I to spread our own wings a little bit.

■ Four years later, she became the youngest managing director of a UK plc, when she floated the club on the London Stock Exchange. She sold the club in 2009 for £82million.

■ In 2010 she replaced Margaret Mountford as Lord Sugar’s right-hand woman on The Apprentice.

■ In December 2013 she was awarded a CBE for services to Women in Business and Entrepreneurship.

■ In August 2014 she was elevated to the House of Lords by the Prime Minister, taking the title Baroness Karren Brady of Knightsbridge.

■ In November 2017 Karren Brady was honoured with the Outstanding Contribution to Business Award at the 40th Annual Irish Post Awards.

Finally, are you an early bird or a night owl?

An early bird. Once I am up, I am up. My best friend bought me a mug which said ‘You’re the kind of woman that when your feet hit the floor every morning the devil says oh crap, she’s up!’. I think it suits me perfectly.

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MUSIC MAN: Johnny McDaid with Courtney Cox

JOE O’DONNELL Musician Joe O’Donnell plays fiddle in East of Eden (Jig-aJig), and worked with Rory Gallagher on the epic album Gaodhal’s Vision. From Limerick, he now lives in Coventry.

MARY O’HARA Singer and musician Mary O’Hara (82) an Irish soprano and harpist from Co. Sligo, was one of the first Irish artists to come to prominence on British airwaves and concert platforms. Many singers, including Mary Black, Moya Brennan and Liam Clancy credit her as an inspiration and influence. After her first husband died, Mary O’Hara became a Benedictine nun at Stanbrook Abbey in England in 1962 where she stayed for 12 years. She remarried, and today divides her time between Berkshire and the Aran Islands.

JULIE O’HARE Secretary, Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann in Britain Julie O’Hare, born in St Helen’s, has family roots in both Limerick and Mayo.

She is a flute player and has been Secretary of Comhaltas na Breataine for the last three years.

KEVIN O’HARE Director of The Royal Ballet O’Hare was born in Kingston upon Hull to Northern Irish parents. He trained locally alongside elder siblings Anne and Michael while attending St Charles’s RC Primary School and St Thomas More RC School in Hull.

GILBERT O’SULLIVAN Singer, songwriter Gilbert O’Sullivan, born Raymond Edward O’Sullivan, is best known for his early 1970s hits Alone Again (Naturally), Clair, and Get Down. He largely grew up in Swindon.

CAMILLE O’SULLIVAN Singer, songwriter, musician O’Sullivan was born in London, England, to Denis O’Sullivan, an Irish racing driver and World Champion sailor, and Marie-José, a French artist.

She was raised in the village of Passage West, near Cork, Ireland. Her niche following has made her a nearimmovable fixture at festivals including the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

VINCE POWER Entertainment impresario From Kilthomas, Co. Waterford, Vincent Power arrived in London aged 15, and ultimately became one of Britain’s major music impresarios through the Mean Fiddler Group. He is currently proprietor of Nells Jazz and Blues club in West Kensington.

KEVIN ROWLAND Singer, songwriter Rowland was born in Wolverhampton to parents from Co. Mayo. He lived for part of his childhood in Ireland. He is best known for his work with Dexy’s Midnight Runners. According to Paul Moody in the influential Uncut magazine: “Rowland... is a towering contribution to British music, both visually and musically.”

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KAREN RYAN Musician, teacher & promoter Karen Ryan with roots in Galway and Mayo, is Director and co-founder of Return to Camden Town Festival and Irish Music and Dance in London (IMDL). She is also co-founder of The London Lasses.

DANA ROSEMARY SCALLON Singer, television presenter Dana (67), born in Islington, moved back to Derry aged five. She won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1970. Her career then followed two paths — her showbusiness pursuits (including work as a television presenter), and her political career. In 1999 she was elected MEP for Connacht–Ulster.

ED SHEERAN Singer, songwriter Sheeran was born in Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire and raised in Suffolk to a family with Irish roots. He has been described as a genuinely great songwriter with memorable melodies, infectious rhythms, and lyrics that huge numbers of people identify with.

TOM SPRINGFIELD Singer, songwriter, record producer Born Dionysius P. A. O’Brien in London, Tom Springfield is the brother of Dusty Springfield (Mary Bernadette O’Brien). He was an important figure in the 1960s folk and pop world, initially as a performer in The Springfields, then latterly as a producer and songwriter, most

notably for The Seekers. He wrote and produced a number of top 10 hits for them in the mid 1960s, and also co-wrote the song Georgy Girl. He lives in Hampstead.

CAITRIONA WALSH Founder Irish Film Orchestras, singer Caitriona Walsh’s musical career began as a singer with The New Seekers. After stints as General Manager of UK Orchestras Ltd and The London Chamber Orchestra she moved to Ireland and established Irish Film Orchestras as the country’s leading employer of freelance musicians.

LOUIS WALSH Impresario, TV personality Mayo native Louis Walsh has masterminded the careers of Boyzone, Westlife, Samantha Mumba, Girls Aloud and Jedward. He is a long time member of the X Factor panel.

GAY WOODS Singer Dublin-born Gabriel Corcoran was one of the original members of Steeleye Span, and with her husband Terry Woods formed the critically acclaimed Woods Band. She lives in Essex.

TERRY WOODS Singer, multiinstrumentalist Dublin-born Terry Woods was one of the original members of Steeleye Span.

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NETWORKERS Communities & administration DOROTHY LYNCH Development Adviser, The Institute of Irish Studies Born and educated in Ireland, Dorothy Lynch studied Business Studies in Dublin and then specialised in PR working on major campaigns in Britain and Ireland.

She joined the Institute in 1995.

GERALD ANGLEY Counsellor, Irish Embassy Gerald Angley is Counsellor at the Embassy of Ireland in the Anglo Irish and Political Affairs sectors. He was educated at the Dublin Jesuit college, Gonzaga, and at University College Dublin.

ANNE ARCHIUDEAN Attaché, Irish Embassy Anne Archiudean is Attaché Embassy of Ireland, London with responsibility for visa services.

DAMIAN McBRIDE Political adviser Damian McBride was raised in north London to Irish parents. He is a former Whitehall civil servant and former special adviser to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

CELINE BYRNE Attaché, Irish embassy Celine Byrne is Attaché at the Embassy of Ireland, London with responsibility for administration.

MARY CLANCY Co-founder, Women’s Irish Network Mary Clancy’s parents emigrated from Co. Clare in 1948. Her father founded the Utilities and Civil Engineering Clancy Group in 1955 — later Clancy Docwra Limited. She remains a director of the company.

KATE McCARTHY Secretary, Coventry Irish Society Kate McCarthy is secretary of one of the most buoyant Irish societies in Britain.

CULTURAL VISION: Singer Cerys Matthews with Noelette Hanley from the Luton Irish Forum Picture: Mal McNally

ETTA COHEN OBE Founder Forward Ladies Etta Cohen, from Dublin, founded the women’s business support organisation Forward Ladies in 2000. She moved from Dublin to Leeds in the late 1950s.

In 2015 she was awarded an OBE.

Karl Duffy, from Dublin, has been with the London Irish Business Society for six years and is their current chairperson.

He is also Director of Global Customer Service Operations at BT.

SINEAD CROWLEY Communications Consultant Originally from Cork City, Sinead Crowley is a former Global Executive Director of the IIBN. She also organises fundraising and events for Immigrant Counselling and Psychotherapy (icap).

JACKY DWYER Chair of Leeds St Patrick’s Day Parade Jacky Dwyer, from Co. Roscommon, left Ireland in 1959. He served as chair of Leeds Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann for over 40 years and is now involved in organising the Yorkshire city’s St Patrick’s Day festivities.

NOELEEN CURRAN First Secretary, Embassy of Ireland, London Noeleen Curran is First Secretary working in the Consular & Corporate Services area at the Irish Embassy in London.

MÁIRE FARRELL Attaché, Embassy of Ireland, London Máire Farrell is an Attaché at the London Embassy, working in the Consular & Corporate Services sector.

NORA DELANEY Third Secretary, Embassy of Ireland, London Nora Delaney is Third Secretary at the Irish Embassy in London with specific responsibility in press and political affairs.

NIALL FITZGERALD KBE Businessman Niall Fitzgerald is among the most prominent Irish business leaders across the world. He is active in promoting Irish sporting and educational causes including Munster Rugby and UCD, where he holds official positions.

MARINA DONOHOE Director UK and Northern Europe Enterprise Ireland Marina Donohoe has worked with Enterprise Ireland since the early 1990s.

She is based in London.

RUAIDHRI DOWLING First Secretary, Irish Embassy Ruaidhri Dowling is Head of the Irish Community and Cultural sector at the Embassy of Ireland in London. He was educated at University College Dublin.

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KEVIN FITZPATRICK Managing Director St Kentigern’s Social Club From Newtownbutler, Co. Fermanagh, Kevin Fitzpatrick, has been with St Kenigern’s in Manchester since 2002.

During that time the club has raised substantial amounts for charity.

DAMIEN FLYNN First Secretary, Irish Embassy Damien Flynn is First Secretary of the Agriculture sector at the Embassy of Ireland in London.

KAY FORREST Vice Chair, Coventry Irish Society Cork-born Kay Forrest moved to England in 1958 and has been involved in many community projects, including the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

CECILIA GALLAGHER Chair, Women’s Irish Network Born in Co. Mayo, settled in London in 1975. She is very experienced in fund-raising, event organisation and management.

NOELETTE HANLEY Chief Executive Officer Luton Irish Forum Noelette Hanley is originally from Ennis, Co. Clare. The LIF provides welfare support as well as promoting Irish culture in the Luton area.

PARAIG HENNESSY Counsellor, Irish Embassy Paraig Hennessy is Counsellor at the Embassy of Ireland in the Economic and Trade Affairs sector.

TONY HENNIGAN Chair, Mayo Manchester Tourism & Business Tony Hennigan was born in Levenshulme, Manchester. He founded the Mayo Manchester Tourism & Business with his brother Lawrence Hennigan, who is MD of the Levenshulme Pub Company Ltd. MICHAEL KEAVENEY Regional Director UK and Ireland, The Conference Board Michael Keaveny, originally from Ballinlough, Co. Roscommon, Keaveney is a graduate from both University of Limerick and University of Manchester.

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SIMON McCARTHY Manager, Coventry Irish Society Simon McCarthy, with roots in Kerry and Limerick, is the very experienced manager of Coventry Irish Society.

SEAMUS McGARRY Director Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith Seamus McGarry is a native of Kilkenny and has been a prominent member of the Irish community in Britain for over 45 years. Having served over 10 years as Chair of the Federation of Irish Societies, he was a founder member of the Ireland Fund of Great Britain.

SÉADHNA MacHUGH Third Secretary Embassy of Ireland, London Séadhna MacHugh is Third Secretary in the area of Political Affairs at the Irish Embassy in London.

PETER McNULTY Community Peter McNulty, from Newry, Co. Down, is the former CEO of the Irish in Britain organisation. He comes from a commercial background.

AIDAN McQUADE Academic, human rights activist Dr Aidan McQuade from South Armagh was Director (Chief Executive) of Anti-Slavery International from 2006-2017. He now pursues international policy, advocacy and consultancy work and continues to work with Anti-Slavery International in a special adviser role. In 2012/13, Dr McQuade won the BBC’s Mastermind Quiz with specialist subject, Abraham Lincoln.

JENNIE McSHANNON Organisational Consultant, Tavistock Consulting Originally from Belfast, Jennie McShannon was formerly Chief Executive of Irish in Britain. She has been with Tavistock Consulting since September.

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GAVIN McWHIRTER UK Manager Software, Services, Life Sciences and Consumer, Enterprise Ireland in Britain Gavin McWhirter has no Irish roots. He says: “I was born in England, and have a Scottish father. However I am a loyal servant of the Irish state!”

NICOLE MANNION First Secretary, Irish Embassy Nicole Mannion is First Secretary in the Political Affairs sector at the Irish Embassy, London.

JANET MATTHEWSON CEO, Young Barnet Foundation Funded by John Lyon’s Charity and City Bridge Trust, the Young Barnet Foundation has been established to support young people throughout Barnet. Janet Matthewson was born in England of Irish parents. Her father was Brian Harte, a well-known figure in GAA circles.

ALANNA MAXWELL Third Secretary, Irish Embassy Alanna Maxwell is Third Secretary in the Irish Community and Cultural sector at the Embassy of Ireland in London.

MARY MURPHY Co-ordinator Derby Rose Centre Mary Murphy, originally from Waterford but brought up in Tralee, has been in England for 53 years. She has been organising the Derby Rose of Tralee selection process for 33 years.

MIKE MURPHY Executive Director Co-operation Ireland GB Born in London, Mike Murphy is the son of parents from Cork and Galway. He was with the Ogilvy Group before joining Co-operation Ireland in 2005.

PAT MURPHY Founder Nottingham Irish Studies Group From Cork, Pat Murphy founded the Nottingham Irish Studies Group in 1991.

He runs history sessions for the NISG, and is currently undertaking research on the Irish War of Independence.

PATRICK MORRISON Chair, Irish in Britain Patrick Morrison, who grew up in the Irish community in Britain, is chair of the Irish in Britain as well as Development Officer for Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann.

DIPLOMAT: Ambassador O’Neill MAIREAD NI CHEOININ Director, Fundraiser A native Irish speaker, Mairead Ni Cheoinin is Corporate Fundraising Manager at Seafarers UK, a leading charity in the maritime sector. She attended Ashton Comprehensive in Cork, followed by a degree course in Maritime Studies at Cardiff University.

Until earlier in 2017 Mairead Ni Cheoinin was a Non Executive Director of TG4, the Irish language television channel.

CHRISTINA NOBLE Children’s rights campaigner, charity worker and writer and organiser Dublin-woman Christina Noble founded the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation in 1989. Based in London, the charity helps alleviate child poverty in Vietnam and Mongolia and aims to give all children the right to a happy and safe childhood.

DERMOT NOLAN Administrator Dermot Nolan is the Chief Executive of Ofgem, the Government regulator for the electricity and downstream natural gas markets in Great Britain. He joined the organisation from the Commission for Energy Regulation in Ireland.

DEIRDRE O’BYRNE Chair of Nottingham Irish Studies Group, Lecturer in Irish Literature, Loughborough University Deirdre O’Byrne, from Co. Carlow, presents Irish legends in schools, festivals, libraries etc throughout Britain.

DONAL O’CONNELL Attaché, Embassy of Ireland, London Donal O’Connell is an Attaché at the Irish Embassy with special responsibility in the Passport Services.

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FRANCES O’GRADY General Secretary, British TUC Frances O’Grady was born in Oxford.

She became General Secretary of the TUC in 2013 when she was assessed as the 11th most powerful woman in Britain by BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour.

JIM O’HARA Chair, Irish Cultural Centre Hammersmith Jim O’Hara, born in Belfast and studied at Queen’s University, Belfast, was a history lecturer in various universities in Britain. In 1990 he established, and became Director of, the Irish Studies Centre at St. Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham.

HANNAH SAUNDERS PR, Company Founder Hannah Saunders in the founder of Hannah Saunders PR, a full service public relations agency working in the fashion and lifestyle sectors. She is also personal PR to a number of high profile names in music and sport including the Soprano Laura Wright and rugby player Peter Stringer.

ADRIAN O’NEILL Irish Ambassador to Britain Adrian O’Neill is the 17th and current Ambassador to Britain, taking up the post in 2017. Born and raised in Dublin, he is a Trinity College Dublin graduate, and has previously served in Boston, Washington and Madrid.

CAROLINE SAVAGE Attaché, Embassy of Ireland, London Caroline Savage is the Attaché for Economic & Trade Affairs at the Irish Embassy in London.

DANNY O’SULLIVAN Chair, Kerry Association London Danny O’Sullivan immigrated to London in the early seventies at the age of 16. He took over Chair for the Kerry Association London in 2013 after having been an active member of the Association ever since it began.

TERRY O’SULLIVAN First Secretary, Embassy of Ireland, London Terry O’Sullivan is First Secretary with responsibility for Customs and Revenue.

MATTHEW O’TOOLE Consultant, political adviser From Co. Down, Matthew O’Toole is a senior consultant at Powerscourt, a strategic communications consultancy.

He previously worked in Number 10, latterly as chief press officer for Europe and economic affairs. O’Toole has also worked in a media relations role at HSBC, and for HM Treasury and the Ministry of Justice.

LEMBIT ÖPIK Director of Communications Motorcycle Action Group Born in Bangor, Co. Down to Estonian immigrants, Lembit Öpik served as Lib Dem MP from 1997 until 2010 for Montgomeryshire. He is currently Director of Communications at the Motorcycle Action Group.

PAULINE ROCHE Managing Director Pauline Roche, a graduate from the National University of Ireland, Galway, is managing director of the RnR Organisation, a company that provides technical support for voluntary and community organisations.

GENA ROSE General manager, Irish World Heritage Centre The Irish World Heritage Centre is a major hub for the Irish community in the northwest of England with a diverse programme of traditional cultural activities covering Irish music, dance and Irish language groups.

CONOR RYAN Political adviser Dublin-born Conor Ryan is Director of Research and Communications at the Sutton Trust. He has a BA and an MA in Political Science from University College Dublin. He was formerly senior adviser to Tony Blair and David Blunkett on education.

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DON SEXTON Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Ireland, London Don Sexton is Counsellor for EU & External Relations at the Irish Embassy in London.

BARBARA STANLEY Founder, Barbara Stanley Gallery Barbara’s interest in art began in the West of Ireland. London-based she promotes the work of Irish artists, and also provides a consultancy service to collectors.

CHRISTIE POWER Manager, Leeds Irish Centre Christie Power from Tipperary has been in Leeds for 43 years. He remains at the helm of Leeds Irish Centre, presiding over a membership in excess of 1,100.

JACK TROW Chair, Irish Heritage Foundation Scotland Chair of the Irish Heritage Foundation Scotland which promotes Irish culture and the Irish community in Scotland.

GARETH WALLACE Administrator, political adviser From the North of Ireland, Gareth Wallace is Executive Director of the Conservative Christian Fellowship. He was formerly Policy Adviser for the Salvation Army. Wallace served as Deputy Chair (Political) for Vauxhall Constituency Conservative Association.

He has previously worked for the Home Office and for former Conservative Leader William Hague.

CATHERINE WILEY Founder Catholic Grandparents’ Association Catherine Wiley, from Castlebar in Mayo, founded the Catholic Grandparents’ Association in 2009.

Catherine, who left Ireland aged 15, now splits her time between Walsingham, Norfolk and Westport.

MARTINA WINTOUR Chair, Jersey Irish Society From Co. Mayo, Martina Wintour emigrated to Jersey in 1977. She has been at the helm of the island’s successful Irish Society which has recently celebrated her 40th anniversary.

PAT WRIGHT Community worker Pat Wright is active in community affairs in Birmingham. She is currently a freelance consultant for Community & Charity Support Services in Birmingham.

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NUMBER CRUNCHERS Banking, investments, finance & commerce ORLA BANCE Director of OB Business Solutions and Alchemy Business UK Group Bance’s company specialises in acting as business partners to organisations in the construction and redevelopment industry. She is the daughter of Irish parents who founded Tara Travel.

JIM BARRETT Director Julius Baer Jim Barrett is a graduate of University College Cork. He was previously Vice President and Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch.

HUGH BEATTIE Partner, McCann Fitzgerald A graduate of University College Dublin, Hugh Beattie is the lead partner in the London branch of finance company McCann Fitzgerald.

PADDY BEHAN Tax accountant Educated at University College Dublin, Paddy Behan is Senior Partner at Simmons Gainsford Indirect Tax Services LLP.

DAVID BOAL Managing Director, Siguler Guff David Boal works for Siguler Guff, a private equity investment firm. The Queens University Belfast graduate is also a trustee of Find Your Feet, a charity that helps families in the third world.

CORMAC BRADLEY Actuary Cormac Bradley is Actuarial Director at Direct Line Group based in Bromley, Kent. He is also President of the Queen’s University (Belfast) Association, London.

PAT BUTLER Partner, Resolution Financial Markets Having previously been a Director at McKinsey & Co, Pat Butler joined The Resolution Group in 2011. He was born in Co. Tipperary.

MARK CARNEY Governor of the Bank of England Mark Joseph Carney has been Governor of the Bank of England, one of the most prestigious jobs in world finance, since 2013.

MARK CARRIGAN Consultant and Lecturer, CHAMP Mark Carrigan spent his formative years in Co. Tipperary and Dublin. He later attended the Dublin Business School and is also an Advisory Committee Member.With CHAMP - International not-for-profit organisation that promotes peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland, and throughout Ireland and Britain.

MICHELLE CONAGHAN Head of Emerging Business Europe & UK, IDA Ireland Educated at Dublin Institute of Technology, Michelle Conaghan is based in London at IDA Ireland – the Industrial Development Agency.

ANDREW COPPEL CBE Independent Non-Executive Chairman, Dolphin Capital Investors Ltd Andrew Coppel is a Queen’s University Belfast law graduate. In 2008 he was awarded a CBE for services to Irish Tourism as Chairman of Tourism Ireland.

NUMBERS MAN: Mark Carney DAVID D’ALTON Co-founder and UK Consultant Director, British Irish Chamber of Commerce The promoting voice of the €50billionplus British-Irish trading relationship, D’Alton is also founder and CEO of D’Alton Kingswell.

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DIARMUID DENNEHY Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley Dennehy is a graduate of Limerick University and is an Executive Board Member of the London Irish Graduate Network. He lives in London.

consultancy in the insurance and risk management auditing industry.

PAUL HERNON Vice President, Recovery and Resolution Planning Brought up in Tipperary and a graduate of University College Dublin, Hernon is a member of the London Irish Business Society.

DERMOT DESMOND Businessman One of Ireland’s wealthiest financiers, as well as his business interests in Britain, Desmond has many sport connections, including horseracing and footballer.

He is the largest individual shareholder of Celtic, and previously held a stake in Manchester United before selling out to Malcolm Glazer in 2005.

SARAH JANE HUTCHINSON Business Development Executive, CEO’s Office, IDA Ireland Sarah Jane Hutchinson, a graduate of Trinity and Dublin City University, is central to the operations of IDA Ireland, the Irish Government agency responsible for marketing and selling Ireland.

ROSS FINEGAN Founder & Partner Lonsdale Ross Finegan, from Dublin, came to London after qualifying as a chartered accountant at UCD. He is a co-founder of Lonsdale, a private equity firm.

COLM KELLEHER President, Morgan Stanley From Bandon in Co. Cork, Oxfordeducated Colm Kelleher joined Morgan Stanley in 1989 from Arthur Anderson in London.

BASIL GEOGHEGAN Partner PJT Partners One of Britain’s top investment bankers, he is described as one of the world’s top financiers. He is also a director with the Irish Aviation Authority and is involved with the Ireland Fund of Great Britain.

JOE KELLIHER Life President, Kelliher Insurance Group Joe Kelliher is the founder and owner of Kelliher Insurance Group, having started the business in 1986 with Kerry London Limited. He began his career working in the City of London as messenger boy at L. Hammond & Co in 1965.

RICHARD HENRY Chief Sales Officer Lex Risk Solutions Richard Henry, from Dublin, left Ireland in 2012 and set up Lex Risk Solutions.

The company is a leading international

COLM LYON Founder, Fire Financial Services A graduate of University College Dublin Lyon founded the online payments

service Realex Payments. It was acquired by Global Payments when it became Fire Financial Services.

HARRY KEOGH Regional Managing Director & Head of London, Coutts & Co. Harry Keogh has experience at the top of the banking sector for more than a quarter of a century. He joined Coutts in 2009.

GILLIAN LAWLESS Project Executive, IDA Ireland Lawless joined IDA Ireland in 2016. She is a graduate of the Dublin Business School.

SEAN McDONAGH Group Managing Director Tony McDonagh & Co Ltd/ North London Insurance Group Tony McDonagh & Co. Limited was incorporated in 1971 and has subsequently established itself as one of Britain’s largest independently owned and progressive insurance brokers.

McKenna is now an advisor with Cedar Capital Partners – a hotel investment firm – having joined in 2009 and worked with the firm full time.

DANIEL McMAHON Head of Irish Desk, Corporate Foreign Exchange, World First McMahon, who is a graduate of University College Dublin, is also a Board Member at London Irish Business Society.

MARTIN MOCKLER Managing Partner Evans Mockler Martin Mockler, from Roscommon, co-founded the certified accountants and registered auditors company. They are based in Herfordshire.

ADRIAN MULRYAN Investments Adrian Mulryan joined Arthur Cox’s Asset Management and Investment Funds Group from ETF provider Source where he was General Counsel.

JOHN McGRANE Director General, British Irish Chamber of Commerce He is a retired financial services professional having completed a 40 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland / Ulster Bank Group in Ireland.

From Drogheda, Co. Louth, he was one of the co-founders of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce in 2011.

AMANDA MURPHY Banker Irish-born Amanda Murphy has recently been appointed to lead HBSC UK in Birmingham. She is head of commercial banking for HSBC UK. Amanda Murphy has previously worked for HSBC in other parts of Europe, the Middle East, North America, and the Asia-Pacific, where she was Head of Commercial Banking in Indonesia.

GERALDINE McKENNA Advisor, Cedar Capital Partners Born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Geraldine

SARAH MURPHY Director of Commercial Operations, The Irish Post Media Group

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This Dubliner heads up commercial and business development at The Irish Post, and has been a driving force behind the brand’s annual Awards ceremony.

DAMON OLDCORN Managing Partner, Oldcorn & Oldcorn LLP An experienced entrepreneur and financier, Oldcorn is a Founding Director of the Irish International Business Network. He is based in London.

LAURA O’CALLAGHAN EMEA Recruiter/Research, Facebook O’Callaghan is also a board member of the London Irish Business Society.

BRIAN O’CONNELL Consultant Director British Irish Chamber of Commerce Brian O’Connell was formerly the voice of RTÉ in Britain as its London Editor. He now advises on communications, media training and presentation.

BRIAN O’CONNELL Investment Analyst, Alcentra As well as being an expert in the financial field, Galway-educated O’Connell is a Board Member of the London Irish Business Society.

JAMIE LEE O’CONNELL ICAP Securities and Derivatives Exchange A graduate of National University of Ireland Galway, O’Connell is also an Executive Board Member of the London Irish Graduate Network.

GERARD O’KEEFFE Former Head of Allied Irish Bank (GB) O’Keeffe graduated in law from University College Dublin; he also holds qualifications from Cranfield University, Institute of Bankers of Ireland and the Institute of Taxation. He was formerly Head of Allied Irish Bank (GB), but is currently on sabbatical.

Chamber of Commerce Financial services panel.

Irish International Business Network. She is London Kerry Person of the Year 2017.

CONOR REDMOND, CTO A graduate from UCD, Redmond is Head of Operations with Coremetrix/ Creditinfo UK. He is a board member and Chief Technology Officer of the London Irish Business Society.

MARTIN SHANAHAN CEO, IDA Ireland The CEO of IDA Ireland, the foreign investment agency of the Irish Government, Shanahan was previously CEO of Forfás.

DAVID O’REILLY Managing Director of Hampton Court Capital An investment banker, O’Reilly, from Rathfarnham, is also Head of the UCD alumni chapter in Britain.

ANDY ROGERS Consultant Director British Irish Chamber of Commerce A banker for many years, Sligo-born Andy Rogers is a retired General Manager of Bank of Ireland’s British operations with a long career in business and community affairs.

PETER SUTHERLAND KCMG Businessman Born in Dublin, Peter Sutherland was chairman of Goldman Sachs International until June 2015. He is also a former BP chairman. In 1985 he became the youngest ever European Commissioner. He lives in London.

MICHAEL O’TOOLE Managing Director, Global Head of Enterprise Production Management, Morgan Stanley O’Toole joined Morgan Stanley as a graduate trainee in 1989. He holds a graduate from the University of Lancaster and University College Dublin.

MICHAEL ROCHE Senior Partner St James’s Place Wealth Management Michael Roche is a senior partner of St. James’s Place Wealth Management.

Brought up in Co. Carlow and educated at Newbridge College in Co. Kildare, has been a regular business columnist for The Irish Post.

PAUL PRICE Head of Distribution Morgan Stanley Investment A graduate of Dublin City University, Price is also Chair of British Irish

FINBARR RONAYNE Accountant From Co. Cork, Finbarr Ronayne is Chief Financial Officer at Telegraph Media Group. Prior to that he was Finance Director at Trinity Mirror plc.

PAUL RUDDLE Founding partner of PMM Partners From Newcastle, Co. Down, Paul Ruddle was Managing Director in Equities at UBS Investment Bank until 2006. He then co-founded PMM Partners, a real estate investment and advisory business.

LIZ SHANAHAN Co-founder & Executive Chair, Reconfiguration and Engagement Partners Ltd Liz Shanahan co-founded Reconfiguration and Engagement Partners Ltd. A Kerry native, she lives in London and is also Global Chair of the

NADIM SADEK Entrepreneur Sadek is a British-based, Irish-Egyptian marketing entrepreneur. Educated at St Columba’s College in Dublin and Trinity College, he created the created the Inish Turk Beg brand.

MARK STOKES Senior Consultant, Teneo Blue Rubicon As well as his work with Teneo, a global financial advisory firm, Stokes is an Executive Board Member of the London Irish Graduate Network.

MICHAEL WALSH Managing Director at Mirexa Capital A former civil law student at University College Cork, Michael Walsh, a very experienced financier, was formerly head of foreign exchange sales at Lloyds.

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PIONEERS Business minds & entrepreneurs SIMON BURKE Chair & Non Executive Director, Blue Diamond Corporate Governance Blue Diamond is one of the largest British garden centre retail groups, based in Guernsey. Burke is an experienced accountant having worked on some of the best-known retail names in Britain.

CHRIS DAVIES Founding Director, DRS Bond Management Chris is a founding director of DRS Bond Management and is responsible for the strategic account management of DRS’ surety relationships. With over 30 years of industry experience at leading insurance brokers, including Aon and legacy companies of Arthur J Gallagher and Bluefin, Chris has dealt with the arrangement of surety facilities for clients in all industry sectors throughout his career.Chris’ increasing specialisation in Construction and its supply chain in the second half of his career prior to DRS gave him a valuable insight into all aspects of the sector from the macro levels of house building; civil engineering/infrastructure; commercial building to all of the sub sectors, including demolition; off site fabrication; modular building; ground works and substructure; piling and underpinning; tunnelling; superstructure; cladding; roofing; mechanical services; electrical installation; ceilings and partitions; finishing trades; supply chain from plant to materials, PPE and waste removal. An exceptional broker, Chris leverages DRS’ senior relationships with the leading investment grade sureties operating in the UK and Ireland. He writes regularly on topical issues in Construction. In recent times, he has commented on output figures, material and wage inflation, skills shortage and top 100 contractor margins.

CHARLES HANDY Businessman Born in Kildare, Handy is known for his management writings, including The Empty Raincoat. He has received a Presidential Distinguished Service Award for the Irish Abroad for 2015.

CHRIS KANE Principal, Chris Kane Associates Born in Co. Kildare, Chris Kane has a degree from Trinity College Dublin. His company is an advisory business service to a range of sectors.

TERRY LEAHY Former Tesco CEO Sir Terence Patrick Leahy was born in Liverpool to Irish parents. In 2010, The Tablet publication named him as one of Britain’s most influential Catholics. He lives in Hertfordshire.

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DR GERARD MURPHY Non-Executive Director, British American Tobacco plc Irish-born, now living in Britain, Dr. Gerard Murphy has been a NonExecutive Director of British American Tobacco plc since March 2009. He is a member and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Blackstone Group International Partners LLP. He is a Non-Executive Director of Merlin Entertainments plc; and a member of the Supervisory Board of Jack Wolfskin Ausrustung fur Draussen GmbH & Co.

PAUL MARCHANT CEO Primark Stores Ltd Founded in 1969 by Arthur Ryan in Dublin, Primark – or Penneys in Ireland – has grown to become an international fashion retailer with close to 350 branches throughout Britain, Ireland and the rest of Europe.

FIONA RECKER Founding Director DRS Bond Management Fiona Recker is a founding director of DRS Bond Management and is responsible for the strategic account management of DRS’ client relationships.

Fiona has previously held various senior statutory positions within publicly quoted companies, with specific and deep experience of managing their sophisticated bonding requirements, as well as being involved in developing corporate structure, financial restructure and indemnity structure. Prior to establishing DRS Bond Management, Fiona held positions at group head office for Compagnie Financière

PETER MULLEN Entrepreneur London-based Dubliner Peter Mullen has a multi-million stake in Hunter, the wellington boot business.

Formerly, he and his brothers James and John sold shirtmaker Thomas Pink to the French company, LVMH, for £49million.

GERRY O’BOYLE Director, Telegreen Ltd Gerry O’Boyle is the owner of Telegreen, a recycling equipment sales company providing waste reduction machines.

O’Boyle, who previously ran Filthy McNasty’s in Islington, is also Director of The Boogaloo Bar in London.

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Richemont SA, St Ives plc, Anglo American plc, Kingfisher plc, Chesterton International plc and Trafalgar House plc.

Fiona is committed to unravelling misinformation around surety, allowing clients, banks, employers and their agents to become more aware of the benefits of surety. Fiona listens closely to DRS clients and regularly holds events for leaders of British and Irish industry.

Fiona has published guides on bonding, finance and governance best practice to support surety facilities. Her unique perspective enabled her to write the DRS bonding process, which after a lengthy testing period to ensure resilience was successfully digitised in 2015, to provide DRS with the industry leading platform for the processing of surety bonds and facilities.

SIR GERRARD JUDE ROBINSON Business executive and TV presenter Gerry Robinson born in Dunfanaghy, Co. Donegal, moved to England in his early teens. After briefly training as a Catholic priest, he entered the business world. He is the former Chair/ CEO of Granada and non-executive Chairman of Allied Domecq. Robinson also served as chairman of the Arts Council England.

ARTHUR RYAN Chairman of Primark/Penneys Arthur Ryan was born the son of a Cork-born insurance clerk and educated in Dublin. After emigrating to London, he worked in the clothes trade before establishing Penneys in Dublin.

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POWER BROKERS Political leaders, councillors & consultants JONATHAN AITKEN Former Conservative minister Jonathan Patrick Aitken was born in Dublin to an aristocratic family. The Taoiseach, Éamon de Valera, who knew his grandparents, attended his baptism.

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PADDY ASHDOWN Former leader of the Liberal Democrats Jeremy John Durham Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon, usually referred to as Paddy Ashdown, was born in India but brought up in Co. Down. He is the great great grandson of Daniel O’Connell.

JOHN BOYLE Crossbencher, House of Lords Boyle, who is the 15th Earl of Cork and Orrery, is a hereditary peer and descendant of Robert Boyle the great Irish scientist known as ‘the father of modern chemistry’. John Boyle was previously known as Viscount Dungarvan.

KEVIN BRENNAN MP, Cardiff West (Labour) Kevin Brennan has spoken in the past about how historic events in Ireland led to his family, largely from West Cork, settling in Wales. Kevin Brennan is currently Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills.

PAUL BEW Academic, politician Lord Bew is Chairman of the Committee on standards in public life for the British Government — currently a very busy man. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and later contributed to the peace process. He acted as a historical adviser to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry. His contributions to the Good Friday Agreement were acknowledged with an appointment to the House of Lords. As Baron Bew of Donegore in the County of Antrim he sits as a crossbencher.

CONOR BURNS MP, Bournemouth (Conservative) Conor Burns was born in Belfast but grew up in Hertfordshire. Openly gay, he voted for the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013. He is currently Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

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LIAM BYRNE MP Birmingham Hodge Hill Liam Dominic Byrne has been an MP for his Birmingham constituency since 2004. He is the Shadow Minister for Digital Economy.

BREFFNEY COGAN Corporate Communications and Policy Lead at Deliveroo From Cork, Breffney is a PR and political consultant across sectors ranging from financial services to communications.

DAMIAN COLLINS MP Folkestone and Hythe (Conservative) Damian Collins is Chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select.

Educated at St Mary’s Roman Catholic High School and Belmont Abbey, he currently serves as Chairman of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

MARY CREAGH MP Wakefield (Labour) Of Irish descent, Creagh was born in Coventry, where her father was a car factory worker and her mother a teacher. She has occupied several roles in the shadow cabinet, and in 2015 announced her candidacy for leader of the Labour Party. She withdrew after only getting 10 nominations.

JON CRUDDAS MP Dagenham and Rainham (Labour) Cruddas, a Catholic with Donegal roots, has been an MP since 2001.

JIM DOWD Politician (retired) James Patrick Dowd, was born in Germany, the son of an Irish father and German mother, and grew up in Lewisham. He was Labour MP from 1992 until 2017.

JACK DROMEY MP Birmingham Erdington (Labour) Jack Dromey was born to Irish parents in Brent and raised in Kilburn, London.

Married to Harriet Harman MP, the ‘Mother of the House’, he is Shadow Minister for Labour.

GEORGE GALLOWAY Politician, broadcaster, writer George Galloway, of Irish descent, is a former MP and leader of The Respect Party. He has described himself as “born in an attic in a slum tenement in the Irish quarter of Dundee, which is known as Tipperary”.

PATRICK GRADY MP Glasgow North (SNP) Patrick John Grady was brought up in Inverness. Between 2011 and 2015, he worked as an advocacy manager for the Scottish Catholic International AidFund, and has lived and worked in London and Malawi.

KATE HOEY MP Vauxhall From Mallusk, Co. Antrim, Kate Hoey, has been Labour MP for Vauxhall since 1989. She served as Minister for Sport 1999-2001, and is currently Chair of the Countryside Alliance.

PAT KARNEY Councillor, Manchester City Council A high profile figure in Manchester, Dubliner Pat Karney is Labour councillor for the Harpurhey ward. He is the NHS Director of Tobacco Free Greater Manchester.

JOHN McDONNELL MP Hayes and Harlington (Labour) John McDonnell, who is Liverpool-Irish, is Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer.

McDonnell, has been among the most active MPs on Irish affairs in Westminster over two decades, and was one of the founders of the Irish in Britain Parliamentary Group.

CONOR McGINN MP, St Helen’s North (Labour) Conor McGinn, from Camlough, Co. Armagh, is MP for St Helen’s North. He is currently Chair of the All-Party

PAUL FARRELLY MP Newcastleunder-Lyme (Labour) Farrelly was born in Newcastleunder-Lyme, Staffordshire. His father was a gas pipe-layer, his mother a nurse. He has been MP for the constituency since 2001. In 2017, against the odds, he was returned with a majority of only 30, the third smallest margin in the House of Commons.

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ALISON McGOVERN MP Wirral South (Labour) With family roots in Co. Louth and Co. Limerick, Alison McGovern is the granddaughter of songwriter and political activist Pete McGovern.

BARONNESS MARGARET McDONAGH Management consultant Margaret Josephine McDonagh, Baroness McDonagh is a British Labour Party politician and was General Secretary of the Labour Party from 1998 to 2001. She is a sister of Siobhain McDonagh with whom she lives.

SIOBHAIN McDONAGH MP Mitcham and Morden (Labour) Siobhain Ann McDonagh has been the Member of Parliament (MP) fo Mitcham and Morden since the 1997 general election and has served as an Assistant Whip in the Labour Government. She is a Catholic of Irish descent.

MARTIN McELROY Councillor, Glasgow City Council Martin McElroy is a Labour councillor for the Glasgow Kelvin ward. On his father’s side his roots are Inch Island, Donegal and Fermanagh, on his mother’s side Lurgan and Portadown.

PAT McFADDEN MP Wolverhampton South East (Labour) Patrick Bosco McFadden is the son of Annie and James McFadden, both native Irish language speakers from Donegal. He was Shadow Minister for Europe until to 2016.

PATRICK McLOUGHLIN MP West Derbyshire (Conservative) McLoughlin has been called “that rare beast, a working-class Tory of Irish extraction who worked as a miner, like his father and grandfather before him”. He is the Chairman of the Conservative Party.

FEARGAL DALTON Councillor, Glasgow Feargal Dalton, the son of a Crossmaglen woman raised in Dublin, is an SNP councillor for Partick West. A Royal Navy officer for 17 years.

LIAM FOX MP Conservative Minister Liam Fox (56) serves as Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade in the Conservative Government. Fox was born and raised in a Catholic family of Irish heritage in East Kilbride, Scotland

Parliamentary Group on the Irish in Britain. The former political advisor to Shadow Defence Secretary Vernon Coaker, Mr McGinn was part of the Labour Party National Executive Committee. Before life in politics he worked in the voluntary sector in mental health and with prisoners and families. He is a founding member of Éire Óg GAA club in London.

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CAROL MONAGHAN MP Glasgow North West (SNP) Carol Monaghan is the Scottish National Party’s Public Services and Education spokesperson in the House of Commons. She is married to Glasgow City SNP councillor Feargal Dalton.

IVON ANTHONY MOOREBRABAZON Politician The 3rd Baron Brabazon of Tara, PC DL is a British Conservative politician. He was a House of Lords whip in Margaret Thatcher’s government, and now sits as an elected hereditary peer for the Tories. The family seat is Kilruddery House, near Bray.

BRENDAN O’HARA MP Argyll and Bute (SNP) “I grew up with a very Irish Catholic background where a lot of talk in my wider family was about Irish politics.

They would get all misty-eyed about Irish independence,” Brendan O’Hara is on record as saying. He has also spoken about his family links to one of the co-founders of Celtic. O’Hara was elected to Westminster in 2015, and is currently the SNP Culture and Media spokesperson in the House of Commons BRIAN QUINN Mayor of Crawley Born in Co. Offaly, Brian Quinn came to Crawley aged 20. He worked in the transport business for 40 years, and became a councillor for the Broadfield North ward in 1995. He will be Mayor during the period 2017-2018.

JOHN REID Former Government minister Born to working class Catholic parents of Irish extraction. Reid served as Northern Ireland Secretary under Tony Blair. He also served as Chairman of Celtic. Reid sits on the Labour benches of the House of Lords as Baron Reid of Cardowan.

CHRIS RUANE MP Vale of Clwyd (Labour) With roots in Co. Galway, Chris Ruane MP is the former chair of Westminster’s All Party Parliamentary Group for the Irish in Britain. He lost his Vale of Clwyd seat in the 2015 election but won it back in 2017.

TOMMY SHEPPARD MP Edinburgh East (SNP) Born in Coleraine, Tommy Sheppard is the SNP spokesperson on the Cabinet Office in the House of Commons.

Sheppard is also the founder of the Stand Comedy Club in Scotland.

CLARE SHORT Politician Clare Short was Labour MP for Birmingham-Ladywood 1983-2010. She is the daughter of Catholic parents from South Armagh, and the niece of the late Paddy Short of Crossmaglen, a wellknown South Armagh republican and GAA man. Clare Short was very supportive of Sinn Féin’s political initiatives in the peace process. She remains active in politics.

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SIR KENNETH BRANAGH Director, producer, scriptwriter, actor From the tough Tiger’s Bay area of Belfast, Branagh is an Emmy Awardwinning, Academy Award-nominated actor and film director. He is currently President of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. In 2017 he appeared on Debrett’s 2017 list of the most influential people in the UK. AMANDA BURTON Actor Derry-born Amanda Burton’s television roles include Sam Ryan in the BBC crime drama Silent Witness, and Clare Blake in The Commander. She lives in Hastings, East Sussex.

PATRICK BERGIN Actor Dublin-born actor Patrick Bergin left Dublin for London in 1973, initially

working on building sites. Opting for an academic life, he graduated from North London Polytechnic, followed by a career as an English teacher.

Subsequently he formed his own theatre company, followed by a successful acting career. Bergin is currently appearing in EastEnders.

CHRIS BROSNAN Film director, writer and producer Chris Brosnan is the son of Cassandra and Dermot Harris, the latter being the brother of actor Richard Harris.

Christopher and his sister Charlotte were adopted by Pierce Brosnan, their mother’s third husband, on the death of Dermot Harris. Chris Brosnan moved into music video production in 2005, directing productions for new British artists. He also directs corporate commercials LEON BUTLER Scriptwriter, filmmaker and producer The son of a builder, Butler grew up in Bedfordshire. He studied quantity surveying and commercial management at Manchester University before working in construction. An

injury persuaded him to take a course CY in screenwriting, and a film career followed with 2016’s 100 Streets.

STEVE COOGAN Actor Coogan was born in Lancashire to Kathleen Coonan (from Mayo) and Anthony Coogan of Irish descent and was a raised Catholic. His career has ranged from portraying Alan Partridge to co-writing and starring in the film Philomena.

FRANK COTRELL-BOYCE Scriptwriter, author Frank Cotrell-Boyce was born in St Helen’s to Irish parents, and remains a committed Catholic. Known partly for his children’s fiction, he won praise as writer of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony.

MARK COUSINS Film director, producer, critic Cousins (52), from Belfast, is best-known for his 15-hour 2011 documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey. He was educated at the University of Stirling, and lives in Edinburgh.

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CONLETH HILL Actor Conleth Seamus Eoin Croiston Hill, from Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, is celebrated for his role in Stones in his Pockets.

Currently he is most famous for portraying Varys in Game of Thrones.

RONAN HILL Sound Engineer Ronan Hill, brother of Conleth, has won three Emmy Awards for his sound mixing on Game of Thrones. He has also been involved in The Fall, Miss Julie and My Mother and Other Strangers.

CIARÁN HINDS Actor Ciarán Hinds, born in Belfast, has acted in a wide range of productions from Juno and the Peacock to Game of Thrones. He spends his time between London and Paris.

AMY HUBBARD Casting director The daughter of Ros Hubbard (see below) of Hubbard Casting, Amy was born in London.

DAN HUBBARD Casting director The son of Ros Hubbard, and brother of Amy, Dan was born in Hammersmith.

He works with the company his mother founded, Hubbard Casting.

BRENDAN COYLE Actor Born in Corby, Brendan Coyle studied drama in Dublin. He won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in Conor McPherson’s play The Weir in 1999. He recently played Mr Bates, the valet, in Downton Abbey.

MICHAEL CRAWFORD Actor Born Michael Patrick Smith in Salisbury, Crawford’s maternal grandmother Edith O’Keefe, from Derry, had a strong influence on him. Television roles have included Frank Spencer in Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em. Stage roles include Barnum and The Phantom of the Opera.

JAMIE DORNAN Actor, musician From Holywood, in Co. Down, Dornan has starred in the crime drama The Fall Fifty Shades of Grey. He is a cousin twice removed of Hollywood actress Greer Garson.

MAIA DUNPHY Television producer, broadcaster and writer Maia Conchita Dunphy (41) was born in Dalkey, Co. Dublin and grew up in England — although returned to Ireland to attend St Andrews College, Blackrock, Dublin. She has written and produced many comedy shows for RTÉ.

She is married to Johnny Vegas (Michael Joseph Pennington) and lives in London.

PATRICK FARRELL Camera operator and editor A graduate of universities in Galway, Maynooth and Dublin, Patrick Farrell is

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based in London. He specialises in filming and editing, and has worked with Vintage TV strands Sessions, My Mixtape, My Vintage, Friday Night Rock Show and Needletime.

HELEN FLANAGAN Actor Helen Joyce Gabriel Flanagan is best known for playing the role of Rosie Webster in Coronation Street. She reprised the role in 2017.

ORLA FITZGERALD Actor From Cork, Orla Fitzgerald is widely acclaimed as a stage actor, although roles such as Sinéad Ní Shúilleabháin in The Wind That Shakes the Barley have brought her before a wider audience.

She lives in London.

ANNA FRIEL Actor Anna Louise Friel was born in Rochdale.

Her father Des Friel is a former folk singer who relocated to Donegal before moving to England. Anna Friel’s career includes film and television roles — she played Beth Jordache in Brookside, and portrayed the first lesbian kiss in a British soap opera.

SIR MICHAEL GAMBON CBE Actor Sir Michael Gambon CBE was born in Dublin. Brought up a strict Catholic, he attended St Aloysius’ College in Highgate, London. Roles have included The Singing Detective and Professor Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.

SABRINA GUINNESS Television producer A Guinness heiress, Sabrina Guinness

ROS & JOHN HUBBARD Founders Hubbard Casting Ros Hubbard, from Dublin, has a huge list of Hollywood casting credits in her portfolio for Hubbard Casting, founded with husband John 40 years ago.

MARIA DOYLE KENNEDY Actor, singer, songwriter Kennedy’s roles have included Mrs Vera Bates in Downton Abbey and Catherine of Aragon from The Tudors. She is also a singer/songwriter.

STEPHEN KENNEDY Actor Kennedy, from Tyrone, plays Ian Craig the gay chef at Grey Gables in The Archers. He is probably the only person in the history of the show to mention the ‘Finsbury Park Fleadh’ or the McPeake Family (of uilleann piping fame).

RYAN KELLY Actor Blind actor Ryan Kelly from Glasgow plays fully-sighted Jack ‘Jazzer’ McCreary, a pigman in The Archers. In 2014 he scored a notable first — audibly farting (as part of the script). The flatulence was supplied by the BBC Sound Department, although Ryan chose what he believed to be a “rich and fruity” sounding eruption.

CHARLES LAWSON Actor From Enniskillen, Lawson is best known as Belfast man Jim McDonald in Coronation Street. Along with his partner Debbie Stanley he now runs a farm shop in the Cheshire village of Prestbury.

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Irish-born actor who is known for productions such as Gaslighting, Tick Tock and King Lear. She became well known to British audiences for playing the part of Siobhan Hathaway /Donovan in The Archers. She splits her time between London and Dublin.

JOE LYNAM BBC business correspondent From Dublin, Joe Lynam is the BBC’s business correspondent. Before becoming a journalist, Lynam ran a chain of pubs in Germany. He is a cousin of Des Lynam.

ANNIE MAC Broadcaster, TV presenter and DJ Dublin-born Annie McManus has been a DJ on BBC Radio 1 since 2004. A graduate of Queen’s University, Belfast, she now lives in London.

MICHAEL MALONEY Actor Born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Maloney’s career has included stage, television and film work.

MAXINE MAWHINNEY BBC Broadcaster, newscaster Born in Bangor, Co. Down, Maxine Mawhinney was BBC duty presenter in 1997 when news broke of the car crash of Diana, Princess of Wales. She can be seen in this role in the feature film The Queen. She was a newsreader on BBC News, and presented her last bulletin in April 2017.

DONNACHADH McCARTHY Eco-auditor, environmental journalist and author Cork man Donnachadh McCarthy is an author, broadcaster and journalist on environmental issues. In 2016 he published the highly acclaimed The Prostitute State – How Britain’s Democracy Has Been Bought. He believes that “The daily bath or shower is terrible for the environment and our bank balances”, and that we should only shower / bath once a week.

JOSEPH PATRICK McCORMICK Weekend Editor, Pink News With roots in Coleraine, Joseph McCormick edits the weekend section of Pink News.

CAL McCRYSTAL Actor and theatre director Cal McCrystal was born in Belfast, the son of Cal McCrystal the journalist. He was brought up in the US, followed by north London. After some 10 years as an actor McCrystal began directing for the Edinburgh Festival and later for the Cambridge Footlights Revue. He has recently worked on films including The World’s End and The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

NATASHA McELHONE Actor Born Abigail Taylor, Natasha McElhone has enjoyed a successful career on stage, screen and television. Her parents separated when she was two and her Irish mother Noreen Taylor moved the family to Brighton. (Her mother later married journalist and columnist Roy Greenslade.)

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JOE McGANN Actor Joe McGann was born in Liverpool to Claire McGann. His three brothers are all actors too, and all four appeared in The Hanging Gale, a drama about the Great Famine.

MARK McGANN Actor One of the McGann brothers, Mark McGann’s roles have ranged from John Lennon (onstage) to Mad Dog in Scully

by Alan Bleasdale.

PAUL McGANN Actor A graduate of RADA, Paul McGann — one of the McGann brothers — is best known for his roles in cult film classic Withnail and I, and as Lieutenant William Bush in the television adaptation of CS Forrester’s Hornblower stories.

STEPHEN McGANN Actor, writer One of the McGann brothers, Stephen McGann created, co-produced and starred in the award-winning BBC drama The Hanging Gale.

JIMMY McGOVERN Screenwriter, producer One of nine children in a Catholic Irish family, McGovern was born in Liverpool.

His television creations have included Cracker and Brookside. His films have included Broken (2017) and Hillsborough (1996) as well as the TV series Cracker.

DONAL McINTYRE Journalist & Visiting Professor of Criminology Birmingham City University

editor, has said that when he is in Ireland “it feels like home”.

Donal McIntyre from Dublin is an investigative journalist, specialising in undercover operations and television exposés.

NEIL MORRISSEY Actor Neil Morrissey was born in Stafford to Irish parents, Larry and May. But after numerous sprees ranging in varying degrees of waywardness, Neil and his brother were placed in care. Neil is best known for his role as Tony in the multi-award winning Men Behaving Badly.

MALCOLM McNALLY Photographer As staff photographer for The Irish Post, Malcolm is an established photojournalist in the south east and among London’s Irish community.

CONNOR McNAMARA Sports commentator Conor McNamara, born in Limerick, now lives in Manchester. He works for BBC Radio 5 Live, Match of the Day and BBC Television’s Rugby Union coverage.

DERMOT MURNAGHAN Television presenter, broadcaster Murnaghan was educated St Malachy’s Primary School in Armagh City and Sullivan Upper School in Holywood, Co. Down.

Having worked extensively on the BBC, he is currently with Sky.

CONOR McPHERSON Playwright Conor McPherson is a multi award- winning playwright from Dublin. His plays have been staged at The Royal Court, The National Theatre and the West End in London, as well as on Broadway in New York.

PIERS MORGAN TV presenter Piers Morgan was born Piers Stefan O’Meara in Sussex , to Vincent Eamonn O’Meara, originally from Galway, but relocated to Co. Offaly, and Gabrielle Georgina Sybille Oliver who also has Irish roots.

Morgan, a former journalist and

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PATRICK MURPHY Artist & Curator Based in Sheffield, Patrick Murphy is an artist, curator, designer and entrepreneur. He is founder and director of Sheffield Design Week.

PAT MURPHY Sports commentator A former reporter for the Birmingham Post, Murphy has reported on cricket and football for BBC Radio Sport for 30 years. He has written over 40 books on cricket and associated subjects.

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COLIN MURRAY Radio presenter From Dundonald, Co. Down, Murray is a sports and music radio and television presenter. In 2010 he became host of BBC Television’s Match of the Day 2 on BBC Two. He then moved to BBC Radio, followed by a spell at Talksport. He is now hosts BBC Radio 5 Live’s Fighting Talk.

JAMES NESBITT OBE Actor Born in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, James Nesbitt got his acting break playing Adam Williams in the romantic comedy-drama Cold Feet. His trademark is his strong Northern Irish accent. He is on record as saying: “I’ve heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke.”

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COLEEN NOLAN Television presenter Coleen Nolan (one of the Nolan Sisters) is a regular on ITV1’s flagship shows Loose Women and This Morning. She has also co-presented ITV’s Dancing on Ice & hosted her own Sky series, The Secret Guide to Women’s Health.

HUGH O’CONOR Actor Dublin-born Hugh O’Conor was still a relative unknown youngster when he co-starred with Liam Neeson in the British-made feature Lamb (1985), playing 10-year-old Owen, a lonely epileptic boy.

After studying at Trinity College Dublin he embarked on a full-time acting career, appearing in a range of productions fromThe Three Musketeers to Ben Ross’s dark British comedy The Young Poisoner’s Handbook. His father is concert pianist John O’Conor.

LINDA NOLAN Actor, singer Linda Nolan, one of the Nolan Sisters, has starred in Blood Brothers as well as

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taken a wide range of roles in television, pantomime and cabaret.

She holds the record for headlining the most consecutive summer shows in Blackpool (10 years) with her portrayal as Maggie May and as Rosie O’Grady.

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O’Connor, from Dublin who is a former general manager at the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.

SEAN O’CONNOR Television editor and producer O’Connor was editor of The Archers from 2013-2016. In June 2016 he returned to EastEnders as executive producer but left again in 2017.

Wirral-born Sean O’Connor comes from a family of Irish Catholics in the Birkenhead area.

DOMINIC O’FLYNN Actor Dominic O’Flynn was born and educated in Dublin. In his twenties, he moved to London, studying and working as an architect. He turned to modelling, followed by a career acting and singing. He has over 20short films and several features under his belt. He lives in Wimbledon, South London.

PAUL O’GRADY MBE Television & radio presenter, actor, writer Paul O’Grady MBE achieved fame through his comedy drag queen character, Lily Savage. He was born to a working-class Irish immigrant family in Birkenhead.

EMERALD O’HANRAHAN Actor Born and raised in Cambridgeshire, Emerald O’Hanrahan is best-known for playing Emma Grundy in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers.

DAVID PATRICK O’HARA Actor O’Hara, born in Glasgow, has Irish roots.

Appearing in many films and TV series, his memorable role as the ‘mad’ Irishman Stephen in Braveheart saw him become William Wallace’s (Mel Gibson) trusted friend and guardian after proclaiming of Ireland: “It’s my island”.

RACHEL O’RIORDAN Artistic Director, The Sherman Theatre From Cork, Rachel O’Riordan has been Artistic Director of the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff since 2014. She has been named amongst the 100 most influential people in theatre in Britain.

SINÉAD O’SHEA Journalist Sinéad O’Shea is a film-maker and journalist. She reports for the BBC, Al-Jazeera English, the Guardian, RTÉ and the Irish Times.

THADDEUS O’SULLIVAN Film director, cinematographer, screenwriter Dublin-born Thaddeus O’Sullivan has worked on productions such as Silent Witness, Call the Midwife and Ordinary Decent Criminal. He moved to London in 1966, where he received training at the Ealing School of Art and the Royal College of Art. In the late 1970s he made two influential films about the Irish immigrant experience in London: A Pint of Plain and On a Paving Stone Mounted. Both productions explore the exile’s position in culture — the dichotomy of never really belonging in the adopted country, yet inexorably drifting away from the parent country. These films encapsulate O’Sullivan’s own position as a film-maker caught between the two cultures of Britain and Ireland; his work in general

explores personal identities caught in complex cultural interplay.

LAURA PERRINS Co-editor, The Conservative Woman Balbriggan woman Laura Perrins (née McGowan) is a former barrister, and tutors at University College London.

She campaigns for Mothers at Home Matter, and regularly writes for The Daily Telegraph and The Catholic Herald.

MARY PORTAS Broadcaster, journalist, consultant Mary Portas was born into a large Irish family in Watford. She attended St Joan of Arc Catholic School in Rickmansworth.

SEAN RAFFERTY BBC Radio 3 presenter Belfast-born Sean Rafferty, a graduate in Law of Queen’s University, Belfast is best known for his work on BBC Radio 3. He presents In Tune, Radio 3’s weekday evening programme.

ERNIE REA Radio presenter, journalist, writer, Former Head of Religious Broadcasting, BBC Ernie Rea graduated from Queen’s University, Belfast. He joined the religious broadcasting section of the BBC, and eventually rose to become Head of Religious Broadcasting. He currently presents BBC Radio 4 programme Beyond Belief, which focuses on religious issues.

SHANE RICHIE Actor Shane Patrick Roche has become best known for his portrayal of the character Alfie Moon in EastEnders.

He has also performed as a game show host. Both of Richie’s parents are Irish, which was his only successful subject at school.

ANNE ROBINSON Television presenter Born in Crosby, Lancashire, Robinson has family roots in Fermanagh.

Her mother was a manager of a market stall. Anne Robinson became famous for her role presenting The Weakest Link.

COLEEN MARY ROONEY Television presenter, columnist, product endorser Of Irish descent, Coleen Rooney (née McLoughlin) is married to Wayne Rooney.

ZOE SALMON Television presenter Zöe Salmon, born in Co. Down, came to prominence hosting Blue Peter.

Since then she has appeared on a range of light entertainment programmes.

Abbey. Currently he is best known for his starring role in the BBC’s remake of Poldark.

ANGELA SCANLON TV Presenter, journalist & stylist Born in Ratoath, Co. Meath, Angela Scanlon has appeared as a reporter and presenter on The One Show. She also appears as a co-host of Robot Wars with Dara Ó Briain.

FERGUS WALSH BBC Radio presenter, journalist Fergus Walsh was born in Leicester to Irish parents. He has been the BBC’s medical correspondent since 2006, winning several awards for medical and health journalism.

ANNE MARIE SCANLON Journalist, writer Anne Marie Scanlon, born in Donegal and Dublin-raised, is a freelance writer, working in print and broadcast media.

She is the author of The Mammy Monologues.

JOHN WALSH Journalist, columnist John Walsh began his journalistic career selling advertising space in The Tablet to nuns. Since then he has been literary editor of three newspapers, a contributor to scores of magazines from the New Yorker to Mojo, and has spent 20 years as a columnist, feature writer, food critic and interviewer on the Independent. He has also been a regular broadcaster on the BBC, and has been director of the Cheltenham Festival of Literature.

IMELDA STAUNTON CBE Actor Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton was born in Archway, London, to Bridie (née McNicholas), a hairdresser, and Joseph Staunton, a labourer, both Catholic immigrants from Co. Mayo. Staunton’s mother was a musician who could not read music, but could master almost any tune by ear on the accordion or fiddle and had played in Irish showbands as well as seisúns in the Holloway area.

DENIS TUOHY Broadcaster, newsreader, journalist Born in Belfast, Tuohy presented and reported for several of the BBC’s heavyweight current affairs programmes. Tuohy was the first person to appear officially on BBC2.

AIDAN TURNER Actor Aidan Turner, born in Dublin, has appeared in a number of stage productions with Ireland’s national theatre, The

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DAVID WALSH Chief Sports Writer, The Sunday Times (London) David Joseph Walsh is the chief sports writer of the British newspaper The Sunday Times. He is a three-time Sportswriter of the Year at the British Press Awards. Walsh was the key journalist in uncovering the doping program by Lance Armstrong and the US Postal Service Cycling Team. He began his career as a cub reporter on the Leitrim Observer.

LAURA WHITMORE Television presenter, model, actor Born in Bray, Co. Wicklow, Laura Whitmore is based in London. Her CV includes newsreader on MTV, and presenter of I’m a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! NOW! on ITV2. In 2017 she played Cleo Morey in the stage adaptation of the Peter James book Not Dead Enough.

IAN WOODS Journalist, television reporter, human rights campaigner Ian Woods was born and raised in Belfast, beginning his career in local radio in Coventry. After spells with the BBC, he moved to Sky News. Woods has tirelessly campaigned to bring the injustice of Richard Glossip, sentenced to death and now incarcerated at Oklahoma State Penitentiary, to public attention. Three times during 2015, Richard Glossip came within hours of being put to death, postponed each time by last-minute stays. Woods was with him in prison, as a witness to the execution, every time. Glossip remains on death row. Woods believes it to be the most compelling news story of his 30-year career, and has written a book about it, Surviving Execution.

HENRY WYMBS Producer & presenter BBC Radio Oxford and Berkshire From Cliffoney, Co. Sligo, Henry Wymbs joined Oxford City Police in 1967, and retired as Detective Inspector in 1997.

He presents Irish Eye on Sunday afternoons. In 2017 he was given a special civic reception in Oxford paying tribute to his work in spreading the culture of Ireland in the UK.

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SPIRITUAL LEADERS Bishops, priests, nuns & religious servants, undertakers BISHOP JOHN ARNOLD Bishop of Salford Bishop Arnold has family roots in Co. Cork, has drawn a parallel between the struggle to integrate Muslims into British society today and the historical precedent of Irish Catholic communities migrating to Manchester in the 19th century.

BISHOP PAUL MCALEENAN Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster Born in Belfast in 1951, Bishop McAleenan was ordained to the priesthood in June 1985 and has served as a priest in England for over 40 years.

CANON PAT BROWNE Parish Priest As well as serving as a Parish Priest at Holy Apostles, Pimlico Canon Pat Browne from Ratoath, Co. Meath, is the first official Catholic Duty Priest to Parliament since the Reformation. He is also Chaplain for London’s Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital.

MONSIGNOR PAT BROWNE Parish Priest, Birmingham Mgr Pat Browne was parish priest at St Anne’s Church in Birmingham since 2010. He was created Monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI for services to the Church. He has now retired home to Ireland.

BISHOP TOM BURNS Bishop of Menevia Belfast man Tom Burns is based in West Wales. As well as his diocesan duties, he is Bishop Promoter for the Apostleship of the Sea, providing assistance to seafarers.

FRANCIS MARTIN-XAVIER CAMPBELL Vice Chancellor St Mary’s University, Twickenham Co. Down man Francis Campbell has been Vice Chancellor at Mary’s University since 2014 following a distinguished career as diplomat and academic. From 2005 to 2011, he was British Ambassador to the Holy See, the first Catholic to hold the post since the Reformation.

BISHOP MICHAEL CAMPBELL Bishop of Lancaster Bishop Michael Campbell OSA, from Larne, Co. Antrim, was ordained to the priesthood in 971. He is the first Augustinian Friar to be ordained in England since the Reformation.

FR MICHAEL CORCORAN General Superior of Saint Joseph’s Missionary Society of Mill Hill The Society of Mill Hill sends missionaries throughout the world. Father Corcoran, from Kilkenny, took up the post in 2015.

Previously he had been President of the Irish Missionary Union, and served extensively in East Africa.

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BISHOP SÉAMUS CUNNINGHAM Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle From Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Bishop Cunningham was ordained to the priesthood in 1966 having studied at St John’s College, Waterford.

BISHOP PATRICK LYNCH Auxiliary Bishop for the Archdiocese of Southwark Bishop Lynch, from Cork City, has served in the Diocese of Southwark since 1998.

PETER JOHN HAWORTH DOYLE Bishop of Northampton Born near Blackburn in Lancashire, Bishop Doyle (73) was educated at St Ignatius’ College, Stamford Hill, London.

He was consecrated bishop by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.

DESMOND MAGUIRE Owner & MD Desmond Maguire Funeral Directors Desmond Maguire has run his funeral company in Glasgow since 2006 — after being in the business since the age of 15. His family roots are in Co. Fermanagh and Co. Donegal.

SISTER NORAH DOYLE, Brigidine sister Sister Norah is a Pastoral Assistant in the parish and Assistant Hospital Chaplain at Wexham Park Hospital.

CANON THOMAS FARRELL Parish Priest Canon Farrell, with family roots in Co. Roscommon, was ordained as a priest in 1983. He has been with the Diocese of Birmingham since then, becoming a canon in 1996 and serving as Parish Priest at Christ the King in Coventry.

PAUL FURLONG Partner, Patrick Ryan & Daughter The son-in-law of Limerick man Pat Ryan who founded Patrick Ryan Funerals, Paul Furlong now runs the London funeral business with Lynn, his wife, who is Patrick Ryan’s daughter.

ANTHONY HORAN Director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office of the Bishops’ Conference of Scotland Anthony Horan most recently worked as a solicitor and acting legal manager for Glasgow City Council. He has family roots in Achill Island, Co. Mayo.

PETER KEARNEY Director, Catholic Media Office Peter Kearney has been Director of the Catholic Media Office since 2001. His great grandfather Bernard Kearney, from Armagh, helped build the West Highland railway line. Other family roots are in Enniskillen. He lives in Glasgow.

BISHOP JOHN KEENAN Bishop of Paisley Bishop Keenan, one of the five children of Joseph and Philomena Keenan, was born in Glasgow where he was baptised at St Joseph’s Church, Cowcaddens. He took up the post in 2014.

DAVID KERR Communications Director, Diocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh With family roots in Co. Meath and Co. Tyrone, David Kerr, a former journalist, has vast experience of the media, notably during 12 years with the BBC.

BISHOP BRIAN McGEE Bishop of Argyll and the Isles Born in Greenock to parents Seamus and Brighid McGee from Donegal and Belfast, Bishop Magee was ordained priest for the Diocese of Paisley in 1989.

BISHOP PATRICK McKINNEY Bishop of Nottingham Bishop Patrick McKinney is the eldest son of Patrick and Bridget McKinney, from Ireland, and was brought up in Birmingham. He was appointed 10th Bishop of Nottingham in 2015.

ARCHBISHOP MALCOLM McMAHON, Archbishop of Liverpool Archbishop McMahon was appointed

by Pope Francis in 2014. He was previously Bishop of Nottingham. Born in London, his father was from Tullyhanna in Co. Armagh. On his mother’s side his roots are in Co. Laois.

BISHOP WILLIAM NOLAN Bishop of Galloway William Nolan was the fourth of 11 children born to William and Catherine Nolan in Craigneuk. He was ordained a priest in 1977.

CARDINAL KEITH PATRICK O’BRIEN Retired prelate Keith Michael Patrick O’Brien, born in Ballycastle, Co. Antrim, is a retired Scottish Roman Catholic cardinal, who served as Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh from 1985 to 2013. His resignation followed publication of allegations of inappropriate and predatory sexual conduct with junior priests and student priests. However, he remains a member of the College of Cardinals O’Brien although does not exercise his rights or duties as a cardinal.

He continues to live in Scotland.

FATHER JIM O’KEEFE Parish Priest & Episcopal Vicar of Hexham & Newcastle Diocese, Fr Jim O’Keefe has served on the CAFOD (the Catholic international development charity in England and Wales) Board of Trustees since 2004. He is originally from Northumberland, of Irish heritage.

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CHARITY: Sister Rita CANON TIM O’SULLIVAN Parish priest St Mary’s, Derby Fr O’Sullivan was born in Massachusetts, before moving, aged two months, to Kerry. He studied for the priesthood at Kilkenny College and was ordained in 1961 for the Diocese of Nottingham.

BISHOP MARK O’TOOLE Bishop Mark O’Toole (54) is the ninth Bishop of Plymouth. Previously, he served as the private secretary to Cormac Murphy-O’Connor before his appointment as Rector of Allen Hall Seminary. Born in London, the youngest son of Marcus and Maura O’Toole from the Irish-speaking community of Connemara, Co. Galway, the young Mark attended St Ignatius Primary School, Stamford Hill and St Thomas More Secondary school in Wood Green, London. He has spoken of his affinity with the mission of the Apostleship of the Sea, the Catholic charity that provides pastoral and practical support to all seafarers. He explained that his grandfather had been a boatman and fisherman off the west coast of Ireland.

SISTER RITA Presentation nun A native of Cork city, Sister Rita left for Britain at the age of 17. She joined the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. A nun for 50 years, her life’s work has been crusading against poverty in Manchester. She now features in her own BBC One series Sister Rita to the Rescue.

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STARMAKERS Recruiters & management consultants ROSALEEN BLAIR Founder & CEO, Alexander Mann Solutions With a presence in every continent, Alexander Mann Solutions is widely held as the world’s leading provider of talent acquisition and management services. The company was founded in 1996 by Dublin woman Rosaleen Blair. ÁINE CONNELLAN Head of Marketing and Operations, Marks Sattin Áine Connellan relocated to Britain in 2013, working for Morgan McKinley.

She transferred to Marks Sattin in 2017.

KEVIN COYLE Chairman & Managing Director Coyle Personnel Led by its Chairman Kevin Coyle, Coyle Personnel Plc was established in 1988. It is one of the UK’s largest independent recruitment agencies with experts in several specialist recruitment areas. As consultants in the technical recruitment industry, the company believes strongly in investing in people and technology,

and is currently aligned with The Chartered Institute of Building Service Engineers.

MAURICE DUFFY Founder & CEO, Global Blackswan Ltd Founded by Mayo native Maurice Duffy, Blackswan is based in the north east of England. The company runs training and organisational course programmes worldwide.

RICHARD EARDLEY Managing Director, Hays Ireland Richard Eardley joined Hays in the Birmingham office in 1988. Today he oversees the worldwide operations of the recruiting company.

RORY GODSON Founder, Powerscourt Ltd Powerscourt was started by former Sunday Times Business Editor Rory Godson in 2004. He has since developed the firm into a business of experienced consultants rated one of the most influential financial and corporate communications agencies in London.

MICHAEL HEGARTY Managing Director UK Recruiting Ltd From Donegal, Michael Hegarty arrived in England in 2010. He set up UK Recruiting, a construction agency providing specialists in construction, rail and infrastructure industries, with fellow Donegal man Darragh O’Brien.

PATRICK JOSEPH KEARY Director, PJ Keary Ltd Formed in 1993 by Pat Keary senior, PJ Keary began by providing consultancy services in the London region and quickly expanded its portfolio of services and client base to include utility companies and highway authorities in the south of England.

DENIS NOLAN Founder, Manguard Plus Ltd Manguard Plus is a privately-owned security company and a market leader in the provision of manned, mobile and remotely monitored security services.

Manguard Plus have offices in Ireland and Britain.

DARRAGH O’BRIEN Joint Managing Director, UK Recruiting From Burt, Co. Donegal, Darragh O’Brien relocated to England in 2004. In 2013 he set up UK Recruiting, a construction agency, with fellow Donegal man Michael Hegarty.

JOSEPH SWEENEY Director Falcon Green Personnel Led by Joseph Sweeney, Falcon Green Personnel is a specialist recruitment business. It provides recruitment solutions to the leading Construction, Residential Development, Civil Engineering, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Industrial and Events Management organisations nationwide. With a hands-on approach Joseph and his team offer a personal, high quality and reliable service. They work across Labour and Trades Supply, Professional & Technical Recruitment, Security Personnel, Industrial and Events Management Temps.

STORYTELLERS

Journalists, broadcasters & media personalities FIONA AUDLEY Managing Editor Born in California to Irish parents, editor and journalist Fiona Audley is Managing Editor of The Irish Post & irishpost.co.uk.

London-based, she leads the weekly print edition of The Irish Post while also contributing to the brand’s regional digital strategy. With a keen knowledge of Irish business and current affairs in Britain, she works closely with various columnists and writers to provide a thought-provoking round-up and review of some of the biggest Irish stories and issues.

PÁDRAIG BELTON Journalist and academic Oxford graduate Pádraig Belton writes regularly for BBC News and the Spectator. He also contributes to The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, the Irish Times, Telegraph, Independent, the Irish Independent, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, Prospect, and Foreign Policy.

RONAN BENNETT journalist, playwright, novelist, screenwriter Bennett, born in England in 1956, was brought up in Newtonabbey, Co. Antrim. His most recent British work is

the mini-series Gunpowder (2017).

Bennett also writes a regular column on chess in The Guardian. He lives in London.

FIONNUALA BOURKE Editor From Birmingham and educated at St Thomas Aquinas Catholic School, King’s Norton and Brunel University London, Fionnuala Bourke is Commercial Editor at Trinity Mirror plc.

SIOBHAN BREATNACH Editor-inChief Siobhán Breatnach is a digital, broadcast & print editor and writer. Since 2016 she has been Editor-in-Chief of The Irish Post and irishpost.co.uk having been appointed its youngest Editor in 2012.

With experience in TV and radio, she covered the historic Irish State Visit to Britain joining RTÉ News anchor Bryan Dobson as part of the station’s live TV broadcast at Windsor Castle. With a background in Law, she is a former Daily Star Sunday Irish Editor and founding editor of magazine series Companies100, In Business and Building Britain. A native Irish speaker she has also featured on TG4 and UTV, while contributing to a number of national publications including Sunday

Business Post and Irish Examiner.

COLIN CONOR playwright, actor Colin Conor’s debut play Meanwhile received the Forever Manchester Award in 2009. His latest work is the autobiographical comedy Standing Up and Coming Out at 40. From Belfast, Conor trained at the Manchester School of Theatre. He is also an actor with a CV that includes recurring roles as Gary McFarlane in Emmerdale, Father Raymond in Hollyoaks and DC Tandy in Coronation Street. In late 2017 [currently] he appears as Estragon in a British tour of Waiting for Godot directed by Mark Rosenblatt.

KEVIN CONNOLLY journalist, broadcaster Kevin Connolly is the BBC’s Europe correspondent, and is a regular broadcaster on the BBC. His mother is Irish, and his father of Irish heritage.

SHEILA DILLON Radio presenter Dillon was born in Hoghton, Lancashire.

Her father came from a farming family in Co. Tyrone, Ireland. She is best known for presenting BBC Radio 4’s Food Programme.

CLAIRE FOX journalist, broadcaster, academic Writer and broadcaster Claire Fox is director and founder of the think tank the Institute of Ideas and is a regular panel member of the Moral Maze panel on BBC Radio 4. Born in Manchester, she is the daughter of Irish Catholic parents John Fox and Maura Cleary.

FIONA FOX Writer Fiona Bernadette Fox OBE, director of the Science Media Centre Fox, was educated at St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Flint, and the Polytechnic of Central London. She is the sister of Claire Fox. ROY GREENSLADE Journalist, author Roy Greenslade (born 1946), Professor of Journalism at City University London, is also a media commentator, notably for The Guardian. During the late 1980s, while managing news editor at The Sunday Times, he wrote for An Phoblacht, the Sinn Féin newspaper, under the pseudonym George King. He also spoke at a Sinn Féin conference in London on the 30th anniversary of the hunger strikes.

Greenslade is married to Irishwoman

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THE BUSINESS OF SPORT: Eddie Jordan Noreen Taylor, the mother of actor Natascha McElhone. He has owned a house in Co. Donegal for many years.

ORLA GUERIN BBC Egypt Correspondent Award-winning journalist Orla Guerin has reported from conflict zones in over 60 countries across the world over the last 30 years. Emmy Award nominated, she was awarded an MBE for Services to Broadcasting in 2004.

CHRIS HANNAN Writer, playwright Chris Hannan is the author of several award-winning plays including Elizabeth Gordon Quinn and The God of Soho. His latest play is What Shadows, dealing with identity and immigration and its bitter divisions. Hannan says: “I knew I wanted to write about national identity and Powell is a good way of exploring that.

But the inspiration was partly my own background in a working-class Irish family in Scotland. There was a huge amount of discrimination as the Irish were often seen as unwanted immigrants. So the Powell speech resonated more widely than you might think.” He lives in Edinburgh.

EDDIE JORDAN Sports commentator, businessman Edmund Patrick Jordan, 69, was born in Dublin. He was the founder and owner of Jordan Grand Prix, a Formula One racing car constructor. He was the chief analyst for Formula One coverage on the BBC from 2009 to 2015 before joining Channel 4. He is now a presenter on Top Gear.

FERGAL KEANE BBC Journalist & Author After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell a story that lies at the root of his fascination with war. Published this year, Wounds is a powerful memoir about Irish people who found themselves caught up in the revolution that followed the 1916 Rising, and in the pitiless violence of civil war in north Kerry after the British left in 1922. It is the story of Keane’s grandmother Hannah Purtill, her brother Mick and his friend Con Brosnan, and how they and their neighbours took up guns to fight the British Empire and create an independent Ireland.

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MICHAEL McCARTHY Journalist, environmentalist, writer Born in Liverpool Michael McCarthy has worked as a journalist on The Times and The Independent. His latest book The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy was published in 2015.

CAL McCRYSTAL Journalist, author Cal McCrystal moved to England from the North of Ireland in 1964 to become Chief Reporter for the Sunday Times. He was the appointed New York and Washington bureau chief for three years, before returning to England. He has also worked for The Guardian, as well as writing four books.

DAMIEN McCRYSTAL Journalist Born in Belfast, Damien McCrystal is the son of Cal McCrystal, the journalist and author. He became City editor of The Sun in September 1987. In 2008 McCrystal founded a ‘green’ shareholder pressure group, Environmental Investor Services, which lobbies companies and industries to improve their environmental performance. He continues to write on diverse subjects in a range of publications.

PADDY McDEE Radio presenter Paddy McDee, from Dublin, has been a radio presenter on BBC Radio Newcastle for more than 30 years. He came to England to study as a solicitor’s articled clerk but at night transformed into DJ Paddy MacDee. NUALA McGOVERN Journalist, broadcaster, presenter Born in Ireland, Nuala is the main presenter of Outside Source on BBC World Service radio. Previously she was one of the founding presenters of Newsday, the BBC World Service’s new breakfast programme.

ANITA McVEIGH Television news journalist A BBC reporter, Anita McViegh from Co. Armagh, graduated from Queen’s University Belfast. A contributor to the Slugger O’Toole website said: “Colin Murray has the kind of Ulster accent which makes even the most benign statement seem like a threat. Whereas the truly wonderful Ms Anita McVeigh on the BBC News channel can make the worst news seem wonderful.”

HILARY MANTEL Novelist Two times Man Booker prize winner Hilary Mantel was brought up in Hadfield where she attended St Charles Roman Catholic primary school — her parents were both of Irish descent. However, she has been accused of anti-Catholicism. Bishop Mark O’Toole said of her book on Thomas Cromwell: “There is an anti-Catholic thread there, there is no doubt about it. Wolf Hall is not neutral.”

But speaking about one of her previous novels, The Giant, O’Brien — where O’Brien and his companions escape the poverty of Ireland to seek their fortune in London —Mantel says that as she began to write she had a sudden revelation that she herself was Irish: “Somehow the giant’s story became part of this awakening and the feeling grew in me that in order to find myself I had to go back and capture that voice, that Irishness.”

JOHN MULHOLLAND Journalist, editor John Mulholland, from Ranelagh, Dublin, is the editor of the British Sunday newspaper The Observer. He is also temporary editor of The Guardian US. BLAKE MORRISON Writer Blake Morrison (67) is a writer who has published a wide range of fiction and non-fiction. From Yorkshire, he had an overbearing English father, and an Irish Catholic mother, Agnes O’Shea, one of twenty siblings from Killorglin, in Co. Kerry. The details of his mother’s life in Ireland, to which Blake had not been privy (his father largely disapproved of the Irish, and even more so Catholics), formed the basis for his autobiographical novel, Things My Mother Never Told Me. STEPHEN NOLAN Radio and television broadcaster, presenter Born in Belfast, Stephen Nolan, 44, broadcasts on BBC Radio Ulster and BBC Radio Five Live. Nolan has won 12 Sony Radio Academy Awards.

JAMES O’BRIEN Journalist, radio presenter Educated at the Benedictine monk’s Ampleforth College one of the world’s leading Catholic boarding schools, O’Brien, 45, was adopted and is of Irish ancestry. A combative interviewer, he presents a morning radio show on LBC. JOHN KENNEDY O’CONNOR Writer and broadcaster O’Connor is a television and radio broadcaster, author and entertainment commentator, born in north London. Writing for both European and American media, he is probably best known for his expertise knowledge on the Eurovision Song Contest.

SEAN O’GRADY Journalist, editor Sean O’Grady is Deputy Managing Editor and former Economics editor of the Independent.

BRENDAN O’NEILL Journalist, editor Brendan O’Neill is editor of Spiked Online

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and a columnist /contributor for The Economist, The Spectator, BBC Online and The Big Issue. Brought up by nuns, he has written for publications ranging from Living Marxism to the Catholic Herald.

MARIE O’RIORDAN Journalist, editor Born and raised in Dublin, Marie O’Riordan (48) is former editor of Marie-Claire. She is currently Editor-inchief at John Brown, a content marketing body. She also contributes to The Times and The Guardian.

CAROLYN QUINN journalist, broadcaster, political correspondent Carolyn Quinn (56) is best known for her work on the BBC as a political correspondent and for presenting Today and PM on Radio 4. She began her journalistic career freelancing before joining The Irish Post full-time, and was then selected for a BBC Local Radio trainee scheme.

GERARD RYLE journalist Gerard Ryle is Director of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). He was born in London to parents from Tralee, Co. Kerry, and worked for the Irish Press in his early career. The ICIJ has been responsible for publishing investigative portfolios the Panama Papers and the Paradise Papers.

RAYMOND SNODDY journalist, television presenter, writer From Larne, Co. Antrim, Raymond Snoddy (71) is a media journalist. From 2004-2013 he presented the BBC News 24’s weekly viewer right-to-reply programme NewsWatch. He has also worked for Channel 4, Sky News and The Times.

ANNE-MARIE TOMCHAK Television Journalist & Editor The presenter of the 2017 documentary for RTÉ One Will A Robot Steal My Job? Anne-Marie Tomchak is the UK editor of Mashable and explores how robots and artificial intelligence could be on course to transform the jobs market, render the skills of swathes of the population obsolete and utterly transform the way we work.

KEVIN TOOLIS Writer, film-maker, playwright Kevin Toolis, born in Edinburgh, is a BAFTA-winning film-maker, playwright, director, and the founder of Many Rivers Films based in London. He is the writer of My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach us to Live, Love and Die, and also author of the classic account of the Irish Troubles, the hugely acclaimed Rebel Hearts: Journeys Within the IRA’s Soul.

His family roots are in Co. Mayo.

BRENDAN WALSH Journalist, editor Brendan Walsh, who was educated at Austin Friars School, Carlisle, was Head of Communications at CAFOD (the Catholic international development charity in England and Wales) before joining The Tablet, the international Catholic weekly newspaper, in 2011 as Literary Editor. He was appointed editor in 2017.

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DIGITAL CALLING: Anne-Marie Tomchak

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Anytime Concrete Ltd Ready Mix Concrete & Pump hire Tel: 020 8578 9299 Email: anytimeconcrete@aol.com

TASTEMAKERS Chefs, restaurateurs, hoteliers, hospitality, food & drink

RUSSELL ALFORD Content creator, blogger and social media manager.

Russell James Alford (26) has wide media experience, working for ITV in London and writing for BBC Good Food, The Independent, Flybe’s Flight Time, Aer Lingus’ in-flight magazine Cara and Gay Times. He is now co-blogger on the food and travel blog GastroGays, run with partner Patrick Hanlon. The pair regularly appear on television, recently joining the chef line-up on TV3 Ireland.

JORDAN BOURKE Chef, food stylist, writer The leading authority on Korean cuisine in Britain and Ireland, Dublin-born Jordan Bourke studied at the Ballymaloe Cookery School before teaming up with Michelin-star chef Skye Gyngell, with whom he worked for years at Petersham Nurseries restaurant in London. His book Our Korean Kitchen won Cookery Book of the Year at both the Observer Food Monthly Awards and Fortnum &

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DAVE AHERN Business consultant Cork-born Dave Ahern is Chief Director of GastroPunk, a London-based restaurant concept development and consultancy company. He was educated at University College Cork.

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LAOISE CASEY Chef, journalist From Dundrum, Co. Dublin, Laoise Casey, a graduate of the National College of Ireland and University College Dublin, has worked in many London restaurants including The Dairy, Clapham and Paradise Garage, Bethnal Green. She writes regularly for London’s Evening Standard and now work as a deveopment chef at Marks and Spencer.

DAVID COLLINS Chief Operating Officer, Great National Hotels and Resorts Working for Co. Clare-based Great National Hotels and Resorts, David Collins has over two decades experience in the hospitality trade. He is a Dublin College of Catering graduate, completing his management studies at Trinity College Dublin.

Olds Approach, Tolpits Lane, Watford, WD18 9XT Trade counter & sales office opening times: Monday - Thursday: 7.30am - 5.30pm • Friday: 7.30am - 5.00pm

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RICHARD CORRIGAN Chef and restaurateur Richard Corrigan (53) born in Dublin and raised in Co. Meath, is a Michelinstarred and globally-respected chef. The owner of Corrigan’s Mayfair, Bentley’s Oyster Bar and Grill, and Bentley’s Sea Grill in Harrods in London, he also owns a restaurant in Co. Cavan.

WHAT’S COOKING? Richard Corrigan

ALAN KEERY Restaurateur, co-proprietor of The Cereal Killer Café, Shoreditch Along with identical twin brother Gary, Belfast-born Alan Keery opened the café in east London offering 120 different types of cereals. The café has won many plaudits as well as criticism for its ‘elitist, hipster’ menu and high prices.

NIALL DAVIDSON Chef Born in Scotland but domiciled in Derry since the age of nine, Niall Davidson (29) came to London as a butcher aged 19, working for Jack O’Shea at Harrods.

He then moved into cooking, working at St John Bread & Wine, Lockhart, and the Chiltern Firehouse. He has now opened his own restaurant, Nuala, a casual dining bistro on the City Road, London. As well as top class food, the restaurant features traditional Irish music.

GARY KEERY Co-proprietor The Cereal Killer Café, Shoreditch founder of The Cereal Killer Café, above.

COLIN KELLY Chef, co-owner Picture restaurant From Tullamore, Co. Offaly, Colin Kelly is chef and co-owner of London Marylebone restaurant Picture.

JOHN DEVITT Restaurateur John Devitt, owner of the highly acclaimed Japanese restaurant the Koya Bar, worked for eight years as an independent trader in financial derivatives, until June 2000. The culinary world then took over. He plans to open a second Koya Bar in London this year.

CIARÁN FAHY CEO, Ellerman Hotels Award-winning hotel manager Ciarán Fahy from Lucan, Co. Kildare, has been with Ellerman since October 2012.

GARRETT FITZGERALD Owner, Butchies A graduate of the National University of Ireland, Fitzgerald is owner of Butchies, a London-based street food company that started in 2013 selling fried free range buttermilk chicken buns. From there the company has gone on to supply a variety of organisations, including the US embassy, a regular client. Butchies now has its own permanent restaurant in Shoreditch, London.

LIZ FLANNELLY Owner, Flannelly’s Club Coventry Liz Flannelly was born in Coventry, with family roots in Enniscrone, Co. Sligo. She has owned and run Flannelly’s for the last 14 years.

GINA GLENNON Maître d’hotel at 34 Mayfair Gina Glennon (44), born and raised in Dublin, studied sociology at the University of Sussex, but left before graduating. Instead she launched her restaurant career in London. She has been maître d’ at 34 Mayfair since 2011.

NED GUINNESS, EARL OF IVEAGH, Farmer, restaurateur Aside from his links with Guinness (now owned by Diageo), Ned Guinness and his wife Clare run a farm and restaurant at Elveden Hall, Suffolk. Their 22,500 acres, producing mainly potatoes and onions, make up the largest lowland farm in Britain.

CHRIS GALVIN Restaurateur & Co-founder, Galvin Restaurants Brothers Jeff and Chris Galvin both

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began their careers with Antony Worrall Thompson. In 2005 the brothers opened their first restaurant, Galvin Bistrot de Luxe, in London’s Baker Street, followed by another six restaurants throughout Britain.

JEFF GALVIN Restaurateur & Co-founder, Galvin Restaurants Restaurateur with brother Chris, above.

ROBIN GILL Restaurateur and chef, Robin Gill from Sandycove, Dublin, has worked at some of the world’s top restaurants. He now co-owns restaurants in London — along with wife Gill — including The Dairy in Clapham.

SARAH GILL Restaurateur Co-owner, along with husband Robin Gill of The Dairy in Clapham.

RITA GILLIGAN MBE Former waitress now roving ambassador with The Hard Rock Café Galway-born Rita Gilligan was one of the very first waitresses at the Hard Rock Café when it opened in 1971. She now acts as a ‘cultural attaché’ with the company. She was awarded an MBE from Queen Elizabeth for services to the tourism industry.

PATRICK HANLON Journalist, food writer Patrick Hanlon a freelance food and travel journalist who’s contributed to a number of national and international publications including Independent Travel, Gay Times, Huffington Post UK, Buzzfeed. He is the co-founder of the GastroGays blog.

PAUL HANNAGEN Chef, PR consultant Paul Hannegan, a graduate of GMIT (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology)

is Owner of Cuisson and CEO of Inc.K (Incubator Kitchen) a gastronomic marketing company.

CATHERINE HANLY Food blogger Along with brother Gavin, Catherine Hanly runs the hugely influential restaurant website Hot Dinners.

GAVIN HANLY Food blogger Along with sister Catherine, Gavin Hanly runs the hugely influential restaurant website Hot Dinners.

CHRISTOPHER HASKINS, LORD HASKINS Food magnate Christopher Haskins (80), born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College Dublin, has lived in Yorkshire for some 50 years.

Haskins foresaw the huge demand for quality-prepared meals, and turned the company Northern Dairies into Northern Foods, whose brands include Ski yoghurt and Bowyers sausages; Marks and Spencer are the company’s largest customer for ready-meals. A leading member of the Britain in Europe campaign, as Lord Haskins he sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords. He wrote the book Reflections of an Irishman living in Britain.

ANNA HAUGH Head Chef, Bob Bob Ricard Born in Tallaght, Dublin, Anna Haugh is Executive Chef at London restaurant Bob Bob Ricard. She has previously worked in a number of Michelin-starred kitchens including l’Ecrivain in Dublin, Gualtiero Marchesi’s in Paris and Pied à Terre in London. She will be one of the chefs on BBC1’s Royal Recipes, a series celebrating dishes served from the time of George IV to the reign of Elizabeth II, presented by Michael Buerk.

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established a pub chain that includes The Claddagh Ring in London.

MARGUERITE KEOGH Head Chef, The Five Fields Co. Clare born and bred, Marguerite Keogh learnt her trade at Dromoland Castle Hotel before decamping to London. For five years she worked alongside Marcus Wareing, first at Petrus and then at Marcus Wareing at the Berkelely. She then launched The Five Fields in Chelsea with Taylor Bonnyman, quickly gaining a Michelin star as Head Chef there.

JOHN KING Restaurateur From Carlow, John King is General Manager at steak-house specialist restaurant Goodman’s branch in the city.

PAT KING CEO The Doyle Collection Formerly chief financial officer of The Doyle Collection, Pat King is now CEO of the luxury hotel chain.

SIMON LAMONT Chef, The Walrus Room Dublin-born Simon Lamont is chef at The Walrus Room, Battersea, London. A graduate of DIT Cathal Brugha Street, Lamont won Bord Bia’s Best Dressed Irish Oyster Competition 2017. He currently splits his time cheffing and working on various creative pop-ups in both Ireland and London.

AOIFE LEDWIDGE Restaurateur, Co-founder The J+A Café The J+A Café in London’s Clerkenwell, co-founded and co-owned by Aoife Ledwidge (along with her sister Johanna), specialises in traditional Irish food and Irish craft bars.

JOHANNA LEDWIDGE Restaurateur, Co-founder The J+A Café Co-founder and co-proprietor of The J+A Café in London, specialising in traditional Irish food and beers. See Aoife Ledwidge above.

DAVE McCARTHY Head Chef, Scott’s, London From a restaurant-owning family in Midleton, Co. Cork, Dave McCarthy moved to London when he was 22 to work at The Ivy. In 2006 he was part of the team that re-launched Scott’s in

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Mayfair London. He has served as Head Chef since 2009.

ANDY McFADDEN Executive Chef, Pied à Terre, London From Tallaght, Dublin, Andy McFadden moved to London in his twenties and was for three years the youngest Michelin-starred chef in the city, heading up food operations at L’autre Pied. He is currently Executive Head Chef of the Michelin-starred Pied à Terre, London. He recently featured in the TV series Celebrity MasterChef.

AIDAN McGEE Consultant Chef, Wellington, London Aidan McGee, from Donegal, trained in Ireland then worked in several of England’s top restaurants including The Truscott Arms. He is now Consultant Chef at the Wellington in Fulham, London.

DARREN McHUGH General Manager, Ledbury Dublin-born Darren, who graduated from Trinity College Dublin in English and Philosophy, is General Manager at The Ledbury restaurant, Notting Hill, London. As well as taking a postgraduate course in Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, he further trained at the Betty Ann Norton Theatre School in Dublin. He made his stage debut in the stage version of Bugsy Malone, followed by The Plough and the Stars, directed by Stephen Rea. He also appears in My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown. As a writer, Darren won Best Actor and Best New Writing awards for his play The Rock Bottom Café.

PAUL MCKENNA Restaurateur, consultant Born in Ireland to a family of restaurateurs, Paul McKenna is Managing Director of Red Branch Hospitality, a consultancy specialising in restaurants in Britain, Ireland and the USA. Prior to setting up Red Branch, McKenna was Operations Director with the Des McDonald Restaurants Ltd. TIMOTHY MARTIN Founder, JD Wetherspoon plc Founder of one of Britain’s biggest chain of pubs, Tim Martin was variously brought up in the North of Ireland and New Zealand. He opened the first Wetherspoon in Muswell Hill, London.

He now has bars throughout Britain, and has outlets in Dublin and Cork.

DAVID MOORE Restaurateur Founding Director of London restaurants Pied à Terre and L’Autre Pied, David Moore (53) had his initial hospitality experience working in his mother’s Monaghan hotel. He opened the French fine-dining restaurant Pied à Terre in 1991, gaining a Michelin star 13 months later. Moore has made several TV appearances including the BBC’s MasterChef: The Professionals and Out of the Frying Pan. He was also an inspector on the BBC’s The Restaurant.

TOMMY MORAN T&S Hospitality, pub proprietor Educated in Limerick and Dublin,

Tommy Moran has recently purchased La Cloche at The Lion, a pub and restaurant in Teddington, South West London.

DAVE MULLIGAN Co-founder of independent distillery Bán Poitín, cocktail mixologist, bar owner Along with partner Cara Humphreys, Dave Mulligan is founder of independent distillery Bán Poitín, made at the Echlinville distillery in Newtownards, Co. Down from locally sourced ingredients. Mulligan also creates cocktails at the Ladies & Gents cocktail bar in Kentish Town, London.

ALEX MUIR Restaurateur Alex Muir was born in Dublin and raised in Doolin, Co. Clare and can boast some of London’s top hotel restaurants on his CV, including the Four Seasons. He is now Assistant Manager at La Dame de Pic, London.

ANDREW NOONE General Manager, Hard Rock Cafe Educated at Athlone Institute of Technology, Andrew Noone is in charge of the Hard Rock Café flagship in London.

JOHN NUGENT Restaurateur In 2008 John Nugent, a Dublin catering college graduate, founded his own company Green & Fortune — a business that encompasses three brands— Rotunda Bar, Restaurant and Private Dining; Green & Fortune Café; and Kings Place — an arts, conference and commercial building in Kings Cross.

As well as being CEO at Green & Fortune, John is currently a director of the King’s Cross Business Partnership and sits on the advisory board for catering services at Sadler’s Wells, London. He was previously managing director of Richard Corrigan Restaurants.

GERRY O’BRIEN Former publican, Churchill Arms London From Co. Clare, Gerry O’Brien was landlord at the Churchill Arms in Kensington, London for 32 years. The pub is notable for its flowers, and O’Brien was featured on the BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time. He retired in 2017, and has relocated in his native Co. Clare.

EDDIE O’KANE Founder, O’Kane Irish Foods Harrow-based Derry native Eddie O’Kane established O’Kane Irish Foods, specialising in Irish food products, in Wembley. Outlets for the produce include Selfridges, Budgens, Londis, Nisa and Costcutter.

Tipperary stretching back to 1789. The O’Sheas source meat from their own farm in Perthshire and carefully selected suppliers in Scotland SW Ireland, Yorkshire, the West Country and East Anglia, as well as continental Europe.

The company butcher, age and prepare meat to the specification of each customer.

PATRICK POWELL Head Chef, Chiltern Firehouse, London Mayo-born chef Patrick Powell worked at a number of restaurants in Ireland and Australia before arriving in London to work for Anthony Demetre at Wild Honey. He is now Head Chef at Chiltern Firehouse, an Andre Balazs luxury hotel and restaurant in Marylebone, London.

PAUL REENAN Managing Director, John West Foods Paul Reenan is Managing Director at John West Foods, Britain’s leading canned fish brand. He is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and is based in Liverpool.

She co-founded restaurant and café brand Peyton & Byrne in 2005 with her brother Oliver.

RORY SHANNON Head Chef, Winemakers Deptford, London Rory Shannon is originally from Dublin where his father owns the Bistro One in Foxrock village. After extensive experience in London, he is now Head Chef at The Winemakers Deptford, London.

NIAMH SHIELDS Food blogger, writer Niamh Shields from Dungarvan, Co. Waterford (her father was a master cutter at Waterford Glass), is food blogger on her site Eat Like a Girl and author of Comfort & Spice: Recipes for Modern Living. She is currently working on her second book, Project Bacon.

Before turning to culinary pursuits full-time Niamh Shields completed a degree in physiology and a Masters in technology. She has lived in London for the last 16 years.

JOHN RELIHAN Chef, consultant John Relihan, from Duagh, Co. Kerry, arrived in England at the age of 17 to train as an apprentice chef on Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen foundation. He initially learned his trade by cooking for his mother, a single parent who worked hard to make ends meet. He cooked at home, and, he says, became addicted to it. Relihan stayed with Oliver to take part in the TV show Jamie’s Chef before eventually becoming Head Chef at Barbecoa steak-house. He opened Holy Smoke in Cork and continues to be a consultant for London restaurants.

JOHN SCANLON General Manager, 45 Park Lane John Scanlon became General Manager of 45 Park Lane – home to CUT, Wolfgang Puck’s debut restaurant in Europe – in 2015. He is a graduate of the Shannon College of Hotel Management and St Michael’s College, Listowel, Co. Kerry.

OISIN ROGERS Publican, restaurateur Oisin Rogers was previously General Manager at the Young’s-owned London pubs The Ship in Wandsworth and The Thatched House in Hammersmith. He is now Manager at The Guinea Grill in London’s Mayfair. Rogers studied engineering in Dublin, but when on arriving in London turned to the pub trade.

BARRY WALLACE Restaurateur, co-owner Hook Camden, London Dublin man Barry Wallace grew up on the same street as his business partner Simon Whiteside in Dublin, but the pair didn’t meet until they were in London.

Today they own and run sustainable fish and chip restaurant Hook Camden, London. They also have a sister restaurant, the Bia Maria in Brussels, recently voted one of the top 60 places to eat in Belgium. Barry Wallace handles the business, marketing and front-ofhouse side of the operation.

STEVE RYAN Photographer, publisher Food photographer Steve Ryan, from Kilkenny, is a food and drink photographer. Based in East London since 2010, he works for clients such as Guinness and Jamie Oliver. In 2014, he co-founded the independent food magazine Root + Bone, which distributes to restaurants and bars throughout London.

EVIN O’RIORDAIN Founder, The Kernel Brewery Evin O’Riordain, founder The Kernel Brewery in Bermondsey arrived in London in 1999 from Waterford. He is now one of the most respected small brewers.

OLIVER PEYTON Restaurateur Mayo native Oliver Peyton, CEO Peyton & Byrne Ltd, came to Britain in 1979 to study textiles in Leicester. He is now a renowned restaurateur and TV personality. Along with sister Siobhán, he is the man behind the Peyton & Byrne brand. He has served as a judge on BBC2’s Great British Menu.

DARRAGH O’SHEA Butcher Darragh O’Shea is the 8th generation of his family involved in the meat business. The outfit has roots in

SIOBHÁN PEYTON Restaurateur Managing Director at Peyton & Byrne Ltd Mayo-born Siobhán Peyton moved to Britain when she was 15 years old.

GARRETH WALSH Hotelier Dublin-born Garreth Walsh, a graduate of DIT Cathal Brugha Street, is General Manager of The Marylebone hotel, part of The Doyle Collection.

JOE WARWICK Food writer Joe Warwick, born in Strangford, Co. Down, now based in London, is formerly editor of Restaurant Magazine.

While there, he co-devised the concept of the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list.

His best-selling book Where Chefs Eat (published by Phaidon) is a collection of restaurant tips from world-class chefs — it is, in short, the ultimate guide to the world’s best food. The Co. Down man is also a restaurant critic for Soho Radio.

SIMON WHITESIDE Restaurateur, chef, Restaurateur, co-owner Hook Camden, London Dubliner Simon Whiteside is the business partner of Barry Wallace.

Together they own and run sustainable fish and chip restaurant Hook Camden.

Simon Whiteside is Head Chef and culinary mastermind of the operation.

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TRAILBLAZERS Travel, transport & people going places ANDY BOLAND CEO, Addison Lee Andy Boland heads up one of Europe’s largest private car hire firms, Addison Lee. The company was founded by Irishman John Griffin.

DECLAN COLLIER Former CEO London City Airport A native of Dublin, Collier has a Masters in Economics from Trinity College Dublin. He had been CEO at London City Airport since 2012. He stepped down from his role at London City Airport in 2017.

MIKE de COURCEY Founder & Managing Director, Travel de Courcey Mike de Courcey, whose family roots are in Connemara, founded Travel de Courcey in 1972. The company now operates more than 130 buses and coaches across the British Midlands.

GERRY FLYNN Founder Enjoy Travel Ballina-born Gerry Flynn, from Mayo, joined Bórd Fáilte, the Irish Tourist Board, as a representative in 1968. In 1989 he founded the travel company Enjoy Travel with his wife Susan.

CLARE GILMARTIN CEO Trainline Clare Gilmartin (41) is CEO of the independent digital rail platform Trainline, the world’s largest independent online rail ticket retailer. From Dublin, where she studied international commerce and German at UCD, she was formerly Vice President of eBay, in charge of all European operations.

MICHAEL GOOLEY CBE Founder & Chairman Trailfinders

Sheffield-born Michael Gooley’s family roots are in Michelstown, Co. Cork. Gooley founded Trailfinders, a travel company, from a small office in Earls Court Road in 1970. The Mike Gooley Trailfinders Charity has donated more than £33million to charity.

JOHN GRIFFIN Founder, Addison Lee John Patrick Griffin was born and raised in Kilburn. He began as a minicab driver building up his business to form Addison Lee which now runs over 4,800 vehicles. He founded the Private Hire Car Association which was instrumental in the licensing of private hire operators in Britain.

LIAM GRIFFIN Vice Chair, Addison Lee The son of founder of Addison Lee, John Griffin, Liam was CEO of the private-hire car firm until last year. He is currently the Vice Chair.

GERRY KEANEY, CEO CEO of British Vehicle Rental and Leasing Association (BVRLA), the trade body which represents the majority of car hire companies.

MICHAEL KINGSTON Partner, DWF law firm Named in the Lloyd’s List 100 2014 as one of the world’s most powerful people in shipping, lawyer Michael Kingston comes from Goleen, Co. Cork. He has recently been included in the Tanker industry’s Top 50 most influential people.

He is also on the Board of Directors of the Irish Cultural Centre, Hammersmith, London.

VANESSA MARKEY Global Director of Fundraising, Co-operation Ireland Formerly Head of Great Britain Tourism Ireland, Vanessa Markey joined Co-operation Ireland in 2017. A native of Trim, Co. Meath, she has extensive marketing experience.

CAROLYN McCALL, CEO easyJet Born in India to a Scottish father and an Irish mother, Carolyn McCall has been CEO of easyJet since 2010. She will relinquish that job and become Chief Executive of ITV in 2018.

CHARLES O’BRIEN Managing Director, Finsbury Charles O’Brien joined Finsbury in 2011.

He advises domestic and international clients in financial communications and reputation management. He has expertise across a range of sectors including mining, automative, aerospace and financial services. Charles’ recent special situations experience includes extensive crisis communications work with both Volkswagen and Starbucks, representing the London Metal Exchange in its sale to HKEx and working with CRH and Coca-Cola HBC through respective moves to the FTSE 100. Prior to joining Finsbury, he qualified as an ACA chartered accountant with KPMG before going on to work in the Sydney and London offices of ABN AMRO. Charles graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin and a Master of Accounting from The Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. He is a dual Irish and New Zealand citizen and is a fluent French speaker.

FLYING HIGH: Carolyn McCall PAUL O’DONNELL Managing Director Pod Trak Donegal man Paul O’Donnell left Ireland in 2004, and started Pod-Trak, a service provider for the rail industry, eight years ago. The company has offices in Newcastle and London.

WILLIE WALSH CEO International Airlines Group Dublin-born Willie Walsh is CEO of IAG, the parent company for British Airways, Iberia, Air Lingus and Vueling. The Dublin-born man is a former Aer Lingus pilot.

JULIE WAKLEY Head of Great Britain Tourism Ireland Prior to joining Tourism Ireland, Julie Wakley was the Marketing Manager for BBC Politics & Current Affairs, from 2013 to 2016.

TRENDSETTERS Designers, bloggers, fashion, beauty & cosmetics EIMEAR VARIAN BARRY Fashion blogger and Instagramer From Cork, Barry is an influential vlogger, fashion blogger, model and stylist with a huge following on social media. She lives in Surrey.

PIXIE GELDOF Model, singer Geldof is the third daughter of Bob Geldof and Paula Yates and has carved out a career in both modelling and music.

SLIM BARRETT Jewellery designer and artist From Athenry, the award-winning jeweller Barrett studied fine art in Galway, and has since been commissioned by, amongst others, Chanel, Lagerfeld, and

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EMMA CANNING Co-founder, Brilliant Inc Along with her sister Dervla Cogan, Emma Canning founded jewellery company Brilliant in 2007. The sisters are from Cork.

DERVLA COGAN Co-founder Brilliant Inc Cork jeweller, based in London.

PAUL COSTELLOE Founder, Paul Costelloe Design Ltd Now one of the most respected names in British fashion, Dublin-born Paul Costelloe designs his men’s and women’s collections in central London.

MALINDI DEMERY & ELENA DEMERY Founders Freddy Jeans Operating since June 2015 and ran by sisters Malindi (26) and Elena (22) Demery, Freddy Jeans are now one of the most recognisable jeans brand and most photographed fashion brands on social media adored by international celebrities and social media stars. 1 in 8 females aged 14-44 in Ireland have bought a pair of Freddy Jeans and they are now stocked in over 160 stores across the UK and Ireland, with their flagship store recently opening on the prestigious shopping street, the Kings Road. Freddy UK and Ireland ran by the business-minded sisters is turning over in excess of €4million per

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annum with over 200,000 pairs of their

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iconic bum-lifting jeans been sold. 2019 will see the business expanding to Spain led by Malindi and Elena.

LIAM FAHY Designer & Founder Liam Fahy London Born to an Irish father and English mother in Harare, Zimbabwe, shoe designer Liam Fahy is regarded as one of the top shoe designers in the world.

JASMINE GUINNESS Designer Dublin-born Jasmine Leonora Guinness is a designer and fashion model. The daughter of Patrick Guinness and Liz Casey, she is an heiress to the Guinness fortune.

ORLA KIELY Designer Dublin-born Orla Kiely is a designer known for her unique retro prints and designs.

Based in London, the Orla Kiely brand has grown to international stature.

LOUISE KENNEDY CEO Louise Kennedy Louise Kennedy is internationally recognised as one of Ireland’s most successful fashion designers. From Tipperary, Kiely has also has also designed glassware for Tipperary Crystal.

ANN MARIE MCDONAGH Founder Serenity and Grace This holistic VIP fashion and beauty service was founded by London Irish woman Ann Marie McDonagh, following 25 years of global retail and beauty experience. 2017 saw the launch of a new retail store and an exciting collaboration with BA. SHANE O’SULLIVAN Founder Easilocks Founded by Dublin-born Shane O’Sullivan, Easilocks is now regarded as one of the leading hair extensions brands globally. With over 2,000 professional trade accounts across UK ranging from top London salons, celebrity stylists and freelance hairdressers across all major cities and towns. International superstars have been seen wearing Easilocks including Margot Robbie, Suki Waterhouse, Bella and Gigi Hadid as well as Kendall Jenner.

Easilocks online business is up 400 per cent since 2015 with net profits for 2017 up 60 per cent to date from 2016. Easilocks have

experienced great success with their celebrity collaborative products - one has generated over €1million in sales alone in its first 12 months and their latest is on track to generate in the region of €2million in its first year. The Easilocks Academy is based in the UK but they are launching their flagship salon, academy and retail store split over three floors in custom Georgian building conversion set in landmark city centre location in Dublin, in November.

CATHERINE ORPEN GALIS Managing Director, Orpen Design Solutions Ltd From Bere Island, Co. Cork, Catherine Orpen set up Orpen Designs in 2007. Prior to setting up the design/marketing company, she worked in design studios in New York.

SIMONE ROCHA Fashion designer Dublin-born Simone, daughter of fashion designer John Rocha, is based in London.

She has collected many awards and accolades for her work.

DERMOTT ROWAN Managing Director & Co-owner Kiely Rowan plc Dubliner Dermott Rowan is the managing director and co-owner of Kiely Rowan PLC, the company that owns fashion brand Orla Kiely and Olive & Orange. He is London-based.

PAURIC SWEENEY Founder, Pauric Sweeney Ltd Co. Donegal award-winning designer Pauric Sweeney is noted for his minimalistic designs. He is based in London.

DR LEAH TOTTON Founder, Dr Leah Cosmetic Skin Clinics After winning The Apprentice in 2013, Derry woman Dr Leah Totton opened the Dr Leah Cosmetic Skin Clinic in Central London in 2014. Dr Totton – who graduated from the University of East Anglia – now works part-time with the NHS. PHILIP TREACY OBE Milliner & Founder, Philip Treacy Ltd Galway-born, internationally renowned milliner Philip Treacy is a five-time winner of the British Accessory Designer of the Year.

BUSINESS WOMEN: Malindi and Elena Demery

WORDSMITHS Publishers, writers & authors ADRIAN BRADY CEO Eulogy! Ltd As CEO of PR agency Eulogy! Adrian Brady helped Royal Mail dream up the idea of the Golden Post Boxes in the home-towns of London 2012 Olympic gold medallists.

CATHERINA CASEY Founder, Craic It Catherina Casey, from Bandon, Co. Cork is the former General Manager of the Irish Cultural Centre in Hammersmith.

She founded Craic-It, a London Irish website two years ago.

STEPHEN QUINN Publishing Director of British Vogue

From Kilkenny, Quinn has been at the helm of Vogue for almost a quarter of a century. He came to London more than 50 years ago, and trained as an accountant. He career has included stints on Nova, Conde Nast and Harpers & Queen. He is due to retire from Vogue at the end of 2017.

FELICITY HAYES-McCOY Writer & Co-founder, JHM Felicity Hayes-McCoy is a professional writer and former actress originally from Dublin. She founded JHM — an umbrella organisation for artistic projects. She now lives and works between Bermondsey, London and the Dingle Peninsula.

MICK FEALTY Founder, Slugger O’Toole Mick Fealty is founding editor of the influential and widely read Slugger O’Toole. He also commentates on the impact of the Internet on politics and the wider media.

MARY HEANEY Managing Director, The Global Legal Post Originally from Newry, Co. Down Mary Heaney is an entrepreneur, journalist and publisher. She is the editorial director of Global City Media, the publisher of the Global Legal Post. She lives in London.

ELGIN LOANE Publisher & Business owner Elgin Loane is Owner and Publisher of The Irish Post Media Group, which includes the go-to global website for the Irish abroad irishpost.co.uk and The Irish Post the biggest-selling newspaper to the Irish in Britain. Other business interests include digital printing and design services The Color Company, luxury bespoke stationers The Wren Press as well as entertainment, celebrity and lifestyle website loaded.co.uk. The Cork-born businessman lives in London.

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ON TOP OF THE WORLD Meet four inspiring Irish people we think you’ll be hearing a lot more from and about in 2018

POLITICS Leo Varadkar On June 14 of this year and at the age of 38, Leo Varadkar was elected Ireland’s youngest Taoiseach just 10 years after he was first elected to Dáil Éireann.

Born in 1979, the son of an Indian father and Irish mother, Leo was raised in the Blanchardstown/ Castleknock area of west Dublin, later studying medicine at Trinity College Dublin and qualifying as a General Practitioner.

Following the 2011 General Election, when Fine Gael entered

Government, Leo was appointed as Minister for Transport before taking on the role of Minister for Health (2014-2016) and Minister for Social Protection (2016- June 2017).

As we face into another year of Brexit debate and a number of high-profile referenda in Ireland, 2018 is sure to be a challenging year ahead for Ireland’s new political leader.

SPORT Katie Taylor Having transitioned from a glittering amateur to the pro ranks, Katie Taylor, right, is the current WBA World Lightweight champion – a title she will defend in London on December 13, 2017 having landed the crown in Cardiff in October.

Taylor’s astonishing success in the amateurs sees her widely-regarded as the outstanding Irish athlete of her generation with her 15 year career garnering five World titles, six European titles and Olympic gold at the London 2012 Games where she was her nation’s flagbearer. The Bray star has now focused her attentions to World titles. “When I first dreamt of Olympic gold, female boxing was practically unknown,” she said. “Now because of my journey and the incredible supporters who came along with me, female boxing is

as much part of the fabric of the Olympics as its male counterpart.

“Now I want to do the same for the professional sport and I hope those who have supported me along the way will come along with me. I’m excited for the road ahead.”

FILM Barry Keoghan This Irish actor made his TV debut in 2011 on RTÉ’s Fair City.

Since then Barry Keoghan, pictured below left, he has gone on to land some of Hollywood’s biggest roles including Lance Daly’s Black ‘47 and Bart Layton’s American Animals, The Killing of a Sacred Deer with Nicole Kidman and Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk.

He has starred in more than 15 film projects including Rebecca Daly’s complex and grief-stricken Mammal., while TV fans might also recognise him from his part as the infamous Wayne in Irish crime drama Love/Hate. We predict it won’t be too long before Oscar comes calling for this Irish star.

SCIENCE Dr Norah Patten Dr Norah Patten is a space enthusiast, aeronautical engineering graduate and researcher. The Mayo native is hoping to become the first Irish

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woman in space. Originally from Ballina, she is a post-doctoral researcher in the Irish Centre for Composites Research (IComp) at University of Limerick and is in training for a coveted spot on a suborbital flight on board a spaceplane.

Having graduated with a first class honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering, Dr Patten has enjoyed a successful career on the back of her academic success.

She now works at IComp, having also lectured in Mechanical, Aeronautical and Biomedical Engineering. She is also the Chair of the Space Management and Business Department for the Space Studies Program at the International Space University.

“I developed a passion for space at an early stage, this opportunity would really be the realisation of a childhood dream,” she said.

“Space has always been the career I set my heart on and I have had so many amazing experiences and opportunities over the past number of years. It is just unbelievable to think I could be in with a shot of actually going there.”

Dr Patten first visited NASA when she was just 11-years-old and has travelled to the Kennedy Space Center as part of the nine-week Space Studies Programme run by the International Space University and hosted by NASA and the Florida Institute of Technology.

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