50 Notable alumni of
Dublin Institute of Technology
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Dublin Institute of Technology is 984th in the world, 342nd in Europe, and 4th in Ireland by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 50 notable alumni from Dublin Institute of Technology sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Domhnall Gleeson
- Occupations
- writeractordirectorfilm directorstage actor
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Domhnall Gleeson is an Irish actor and screenwriter. He is the son of actor Brendan Gleeson, with whom he has appeared in a number of films and theatre projects. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Media Arts from Dublin Institute of Technology.
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Becky Lynch
- Enrolled in Dublin Institute of Technology
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in theatre
- Occupations
- actorstunt performerprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Rebecca Quin is an Irish professional wrestler. She is signed to WWE under the ring name Becky Lynch, where she performs on the Raw brand. Lynch is one of WWE's most recognizable and highest-paid wrestlers. Twitter named her sixth on their list of Top Female Athletes Worldwide in 2019.
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Caitríona Balfe
- Occupations
- actorfilm producermodel
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Caitríona Mary Balfe is an Irish actress and model. She is best known for her starring role as Claire Fraser in the Starz historical drama series Outlander (2014–present), for which she received nominations for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress in a Television Series – Drama.
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Vogue Williams
- Occupations
- television presenteractor
- Biography
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Vogue Williams is an Irish model and media personality, known for participating in Dancing with the Stars and Stepping Out and for winning the 2015 series of Bear Grylls: Mission Survive.
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Brendan Behan
- Occupations
- writersongwriterpoetplaywrightjournalist
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Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, playwright, and Irish Republican, an activist who wrote in both English and Irish. He was named by the US website Irish Central as one of the greatest Irish writers of all time.
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Bertie Ahern
- Occupations
- international forum participantpolitician
- Biography
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Bartholomew Patrick "Bertie" Ahern is an Irish former Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1997 to 2008, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1994 to 2008, Leader of the Opposition from 1994 to 1997, Tánaiste and Minister for Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht from November 1994 to December 1994, Deputy Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1992 to 1994, Minister for Industry and Commerce in January 1993, Minister for Finance from 1991 to 1994, Minister for Labour from 1987 to 1991, Government Chief Whip and Minister of State at the Department of Defence from March 1982 to December 1982 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1986 to 1987. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1977 to 2011.
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Stephen Roche
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- sport cyclist
- Biography
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Stephen Roche is an Irish former professional road racing cyclist. In a 13-year professional career, he peaked in 1987, becoming the second of only two cyclists to win the Triple Crown of victories in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia general classification, plus the World road race championship, the first being Eddy Merckx. Roche's rise coincided with that of fellow Irishman Sean Kelly.
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Simon Harris
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- politician
- Biography
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Simon Harris is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science since June 2020. He also served as Minister for Justice from December 2022 to June 2023 to facilitate the maternity leave of Helen McEntee. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since 2011. He served as Minister for Health from 2016 to 2020 and Minister of State at the Department of Finance from 2014 to 2016.
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John Moore
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- film producerfilm directorscreenwriter
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John Moore is an Irish film director and producer whose credits include the action war film Behind Enemy Lines and A Good Day to Die Hard.
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Paul McGinley
- Occupations
- golfer
- Biography
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Paul Noel McGinley is an Irish professional golfer who has won four events on the European Tour. At the 2002 Ryder Cup, he famously holed a ten-foot putt on the 18th hole in his match against Jim Furyk at The Belfry which won the Ryder Cup for Europe. He was the winning captain of Europe in the 2014 Ryder Cup and the first Irishman to captain Europe's Ryder Cup side.
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John Sheahan
- Occupations
- fiddlercomposersingerguitarist
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John Sheahan is an Irish musician and composer. He joined The Dubliners in 1964 and played with them until 2012 when The Dubliners' name was retired following the death of founding member Barney McKenna. As of June 2022, he is the last surviving member of the definitive lineup of the Dubliners.
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Matt Carthy
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- politician
- Biography
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Matt Carthy is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cavan–Monaghan constituency since the 2020 general election. He previously served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Midlands–North-West constituency from 2014 to 2020.
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Darina Allen
- Occupations
- authorcooktelevision personality
- Biography
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Darina Hilda Allen is an Irish chef, food writer, TV personality and founder of Ballymaloe Cookery School.
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Pearse Doherty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pearse Daniel Doherty is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Donegal constituency since the 2016 general election, and previously a TD for the Donegal South-West constituency from 2010 to 2016. He also previously served as a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2007 to 2010.
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George Hook
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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George Hook is an Irish broadcaster, journalist and rugby union pundit. He formerly hosted The Right Hook and High Noon on the Irish radio station Newstalk.
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Regina Doherty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Regina Doherty is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has served as Deputy leader of Seanad Éireann since 2022. She was Leader of the Seanad from 2020 to 2022, and is Leader of Fine Gael in the Seanad since June 2020. She has been a Senator since June 2020, after being nominated by the Taoiseach. She served as Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection from 2017 to 2020 and Government Chief Whip from 2016 to 2017. She was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath East constituency from 2011 to 2020.
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Paul Gogarty
- Occupations
- singerpoliticiansongwriter
- Biography
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Paul Nicholas Gogarty is an Irish independent politician who has served as a South Dublin County Councillor for Lucan since May 2014. He was previously a member of the Green Party, and served as a Green Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Mid-West constituency from 2002 to 2011.
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Margaret Ekpo
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- politicianwomen's rights activist
- Biography
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Chief Margaret Ekpo // was a Nigerian women's rights activist and social mobilizer who was a pioneering female politician in the country's First Republic and a leading member of a class of traditional Nigerian women activists, many of whom rallied women beyond notions of ethnic solidarity. She played major roles as a grassroots and nationalist politician in the Eastern Nigerian city of Aba, in the era of a hierarchical and male-dominated movement towards independence.
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Alan Joyce
- Occupations
- chief executive officerbusinesspersonengineer
- Biography
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Alan Joseph Joyce AC FTSE is an Irish-Australian businessman. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Qantas Airways Limited from 2008 until his resignation in 2023. Joyce retired as CEO on 5 September 2023, with Vanessa Hudson succeeding him the following day.
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Proinsias De Rossa
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Proinsias De Rossa is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Minister for Social Welfare from 1994 to 1997, Leader of Democratic Left from 1992 to 1999 and Leader of the Workers' Party from 1988 to 1992. He served as Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 1989 to 1992 and 1999 to 2012. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin North-West constituency from 1989 to 2002.
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Bryan Dobson
- Occupations
- television presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Bryan David Dobson is an Irish journalist, newscaster and presenter with RTÉ. He currently presents the RTÉ News at One on RTÉ Radio One. He previously presented RTÉ News: Six One, RTÉ News: Nine O'Clock, most recently Morning Ireland, and occasionally RTÉ News: One O'Clock.
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Kevin Dundon
- Occupations
- chef
- Biography
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Kevin Dundon is an Irish celebrity chef, television personality and author, known for featuring on television series such as Guerrilla Gourmet and Heat. He is the author of the book, Full on Irish: Contemporary Creative Cooking and his recipes have been featured in publications such as the Sunday Tribune and Weekend magazine in the Irish Independent. He has also cooked for The Queen and both an Irish and a US president.
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Todd McCaffrey
- Enrolled in Dublin Institute of Technology
- In 1975 studied mechanical engineering
- Occupations
- science fiction writernovelistwriter
- Biography
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Todd J. McCaffrey is an American science fiction writer known for continuing the Dragonriders of Pern series in collaboration with his mother Anne McCaffrey.
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Emmet Stagg
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Emmet Stagg is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as Labour Party Chief Whip from 2007 to 2016, Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Energy and Communications from 1994 to 1997 and Minister of State at the Department of the Environment from 1993 to 1994. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 1987 to 2016.
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David Gillick
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- association football playersprintermotivational speaker
- Biography
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David Gillick is an Irish international track and field athlete. He began his education in Our Lady's Boys School and attended St Benildus College secondary school in Kilmacud. He studied at Dublin Institute of Technology before moving to Loughborough University in the United Kingdom to train as a full-time athlete with coach Nick Dakin. Gillick specialises in the 400 metres and he won the European Indoor Championship in 2005 and 2007, as well as the Irish National Outdoor Championship in 2006 and 2007. He set the Irish Indoor record of 45.52 seconds in the 2007 final. The time also beat the Irish outdoor record of 45.58 and was within the Olympic 'A' qualifying standard for the 2008 Games. On 4 July 2009 he ran 44.77 seconds in a race in Madrid to set a new national record. He is also the 2009 Irish national 200 m champion.
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John Lacey
- Occupations
- rugby union playerrugby union match official
- Biography
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John Lacey is a former Ireland A and Ireland Sevens rugby union international and current rugby union referee. As a player, Lacey spent most of career with Shannon in the All-Ireland League. He also represented Munster. As an international referee he has taken charge of matches in the Six Nations Championship, the Rugby Championship and the Rugby World Cup. He also refereed the 2013 Pro12 Grand Final and the 2015–16 and 2016–17 European Rugby Challenge Cup finals.
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Damien English
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- politician
- Biography
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Damien English is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Meath West constituency since 2007, and previously from 2002 to 2007 for the Meath constituency. He served as Minister of State from 2014 to 2023.
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Mark Daly
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- politician
- Biography
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Mark Daly is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has served as Leas-Chathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann since December 2022. He previously served as Cathaoirleach of Seanad Éireann from June 2020 to December 2022. He has served as a Senator for the Administrative Panel since July 2007.
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Gay Mitchell
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- politician
- Biography
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Gabriel Mitchell is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State for European Affairs from 1994 to 1997 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 1992 to 1993. He served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for the Dublin constituency from 2004 to 2014 and a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1981 to 2007.
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Miguel Delaney
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Miguel Delaney is a Spanish-Irish football journalist and author. He is the chief football writer at The Independent.
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Úna O'Hagan
- Occupations
- news presenterjournalist
- Biography
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Una O'Hagan is an Irish author, journalist and former newsreader with RTÉ, Ireland's national radio and television station. She presented the main television news programmes Six One News, Nine O'Clock News and One O'Clock News including all other news bulletins on both radio and television. For nine years, from 1996 to 2005, she co-presented the station's flagship news programme Six One News with Bryan Dobson. O'Hagan presented her last news bulletin on Sunday 25 February 2018.
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Robert Ballagh
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- postage stamp designerpainter
- Biography
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Robert Ballagh is an Irish artist, painter and designer. Born in suburban Dublin, Ballagh's initial painting style was strongly influenced by pop art. He is also known for his hyperrealistic renderings of Irish literary, historical and establishment figures, or designing more than 70 Irish postage stamps and a series of banknotes, and for work on theatrical sets, including for works by Samuel Beckett and Oscar Wilde, and for Riverdance in multiple locations. Ballagh's work has been exhibited at many solo and group shows since 1967, in Dublin, Cork, Brussels, Moscow, Sofia, Florence, Lund and others, as well as touring in Ireland and the US. His work is held in a range of museum and gallery collections. He was chosen to represent Ireland at the 1969 Biennale de Paris.
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Mick Barry
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mick Barry is an Irish People Before Profit–Solidarity politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Cork North-Central constituency since the 2016 general election.
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Colm Brophy
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- politician
- Biography
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Colm Brophy is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-West constituency since 2016. He served as Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs from July 2020 to December 2022.
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Brian Stanley
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- politician
- Biography
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Brian Stanley is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Laois–Offaly constituency since the 2020 general election, and previously from 2011 to 2016 and from 2016 to 2020 for the Laois constituency. He was appointed Chair of the Public Accounts Committee in July 2020.
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Mícheál Mac Donncha
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- politician
- Biography
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Mícheál Mac Donncha is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who served as the Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2017 to 2018. He has been a Dublin City Councillor since 2014.
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Imelda Munster
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Imelda Munster is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Louth constituency since the 2016 general election.
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Michael Nugent
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- activistnon-fiction writer
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Michael Nugent is an Irish writer and activist. He has written, co-written or contributed to seven books and the comedy musical play I, Keano. He has campaigned on many political issues, often with his late wife Anne Holliday, and he is chairperson of the advocacy group Atheist Ireland.
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Denise Mitchell
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- politician
- Biography
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Denise Mitchell is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin Bay North constituency since the 2016 general election.
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John Brady
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- politician
- Biography
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John Brady is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency since the 2016 general election. He had been a member of Wicklow County Council from 2011 to 2016 and also a member of Bray Town Council from 2004 to 2014.
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Sinéad Goldrick
- Years
- 1990-.. (age 34)
- Occupations
- Australian rules football playerbasketball player
- Biography
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Sinéad Goldrick is a dual code footballer, playing at the highest level in both Gaelic football and Australian rules football. She captained Dublin ladies in the 2014 All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship final and was a member of the Dublin teams that won the All-Ireland Senior Ladies' Football Championship in 2017, 2018 and 2019. She was also a member of the Dublin team that won the 2018 Ladies' National Football League. In 2019 she won her seventh All Star award. During the 2010s she was also a prominent member of the Foxrock–Cabinteely team that won Dublin and Leinster titles and played in All-Ireland finals. In October 2019 it was announced that Goldrick has agreed to play for Melbourne Football Club of the AFLW in 2020 and she won a premiership with the club in 2022 (AFLW Season 7).
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Kevin Humphreys
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- politician
- Biography
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Kevin Humphreys is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Minister of State from 2014 to 2016. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-East constituency from 2011 to 2016 and as a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2016 to 2020.
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Fiona O'Loughlin
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- politician
- Biography
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Fiona O'Loughlin is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Senator for the Administrative Panel since April 2020. She previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Kildare South constituency from 2016 to 2020. She also served as Chair of the Committee on Education and Social Protection from 2016 to 2020.
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Catherine Byrne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Catherine Byrne is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as a Minister of State from 2016 to 2020 and Lord Mayor of Dublin from 2005 to 2006. She served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 2007 to 2020.
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Brendan Ryan
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- politician
- Biography
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Brendan Ryan is an Irish Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) from 2011 to 2020. He was a Senator for the Administrative Panel from 2007 to 2011.
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Máire Devine
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- politician
- Biography
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Máire Devine is an Irish Sinn Féin politician who has served as a Dublin City Councillor since October 2020. She previously served as a Senator for the Labour Panel from April 2016 to March 2020.
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Aoife Dooley
- Years
- 1991-.. (age 33)
- Occupations
- comedianwriterillustrator
- Biography
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Aoife Dooley, is an Irish writer, illustrator, comedian and graphic designer.
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Eric Byrne
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Byrne is an Irish former Labour Party politician who served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Dublin South-Central constituency from 1989 to 1992, 1994 to 1997 and 2011 to 2016.
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Pat Casey
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Pat Casey is an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who has been a Senator for the Labour Panel since April 2020. He previously served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Wicklow constituency from 2016 to 2020.
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Jillian van Turnhout
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jillian van Turnhout is an Irish children's rights advocate and served as an independent member of Seanad Éireann from 2011 to 2016.
