Noel Joyce
Assistant Professor in IMB at NYU and Mentor and Consultant in Design and Innovation. When a mountain biking accident ended his career in the military and left him confined to a wheelchair Noel went back to eduction to study Industrial design. He went on to utilise his new found skill set to become an entrepreneur […]
Eoin Hogan
Rural Recreation Officer, County Clare Eoin Hogan has worked in outdoor recreation for over 15 years, 7 years as the Rural Recreation Officer (RRO) for County Kilkenny and for the past 10 years is the RRO for County Clare. In his time in Kilkenny, he set up and managed the award-winning non-profit company, Trail Kilkenny, which […]
Caroline Callery
Caroilin is a Director of the Westward Group, the company that saved Strokestown Park in the late 1970s. She is recognised for her work building connections and international recognition for Strokestown and Roscommon among many universities and institutions across the world. Caroilin is deeply involved in the ongoing development of the National & Global Irish […]
Vincent McAlinden
Vincent has over 20 years working in the outdoor sector, as an instructor & environmental educator and more latterly on assessing and mitigating recreational impacts in the Irish Uplands. He is a member of the management board of the Visitor Safety Group, the Access and Conservation committee of Mountaineering Ireland and the Upland Path Advisory […]
Chris York
Chris has over 20 years’ experience of working on upland paths, mainly in survey, design and supervision of repairs. He is an active member of Upland Path Advisory Group and has worked across many of the mountain areas of Scotland and Ireland. He has also been working on Peatland Restoration projects for the past 5 […]
Gwen Wilkinson
Since early childhood Gwen Wilkinson has been exploring waterways, from canal and river journeys on board her parents barge to transatlantic crossings on ocean-racing yachts. In 2019 she set herself the challenge of building a canoe and paddling it the length of Ireland, along a network of inland waterways Her book, The Waters and the […]
Josephine Kelly
Josephine Kelly is a self-employed consultant currently contracted by Cairde na hEaragaile CLG to assist them to deliver on the actions and objectives of the ‘An Earagail Integrated Management Plan’. Josephine has been actively involved in rural development for over 20 years. Her current undertakings involve the management of Errigal Mountain and its environs and […]
Tom Losey
Tom Losey founded Liquid Therapy in 2011, This small community group has grown to become a multi award winning charity operating in Ocean based blue spaces delivering Mental Wellbeing and inclusive programmes to young people, families and community groups from across the country who either cannot or who struggle to participate in main stream opportunities! […]
Ellie Berry
Ellie Berry is a long-distance walker and Irish mountain climber. Since 2017, she has walked over 4,000km of long-distance trails around Ireland with partner Carl Lange as part of the Tough Soles project. In 2023, she set a new Irish record for the fastest known time for climbing all 275 mountains on the island of […]
Barry Dillon
Barry Dillon is the co-founder of Venture Out Wilderness Project CLG, a Galway based registered charity and social enterprise. By merging his passion for outdoor adventure activities, with his professional experience in social care and youth work, Barry helped create an organisation that uses the outdoors and nature to affect positive change in people’s lives. […]
