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John Horgan
Is a co-editor of a newly published book Mapping
Irish Media: Critical Explorations. He has also authored
Broadcasting and Public Life:RTE News and Current Affairs,
1926-1997(2004) and Irish Media: A Critical History
Since 1922 (2001). In August 2007, he was made Ireland's
first Press Ombudsman.
RTE Vanbrugh Quartet
Winner of the 1988 London International String Quartet
Competition and now in its twenty-first concert season, the RTE
Vanbrugh Quartet is one of Europe's most sucessful quartets, widely
recognised for its beauty of sound, clarity of texture and integrity
of interpretation.
Don Thornhill
A graduate of both UCD and TCD, a Fullbright Scholar he
is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and a life member of the
Royal Dublin Society. He is a consultant and adviser on strategy
and policy and a board member of organisations in the public and
private sectors.
Siobhán Barry
A native of Cork, graduate of UCC and TCD,a Consultant
Psychiatrist and Clinical Director of The Cluain Mhuire Service,
Blackrock, Co. Dublin, she has written What Everybody Needs
to Know about Cannabis [2006] and The High Rates
of Suicide in Ireland [2006]. A founder member of the
Irish Psychiatric Association [1999] she is their Public Relations
Officer. She co-edited Understanding Mental Health
[2006].
Conor
Bowman
A Barrister, married with four children and a dodgy Mondeo
he is the author of Wasting by Degrees. His interests
include collecting books and autographs, and his ambition is to
live long enough to cheat the pension company.
Mrs.
Moneypenny
has an MBA from the London Business School and holds a
PhD in Behavioural Finance from the University of Hong Kong. She
writes a weekly column in the Financial Times [Mrs Moneypenny]
and a monthly advice column in IR Magazine.
David McWilliams
writes two weekly opinion columns and is the author of the acclaimed
book on the new Ireland, The Pope’s Children and,
more recently, The Generation Game. He has been
a regular on Irish television and radio since 2000. He was educated
at Trinity College Dublin and the College of Europe, Bruges, Belgium.
As an economist with the Irish Central Bank, he helped draft the
Irish Submission to the Maastricht Treaty and advised the authorities
during the 1992-93 exchange rate crisis. He was the first economist
to predict the 1990s boom in Ireland which later became known
as the “Celtic Tiger”. He travelled extensively in Eastern Europe
and the Middle East, devising bank strategy in both regions.
Manchán Magan
has written, presented and co-produced a series of 50 travel
documentaries. Has made a historical movie on the Irish Civil
War, The Struggle for RTE. In 1998
he wrote a travelogue on Africa, Manchán ar Seachrán. A follow-up,
Baba-ji & TnaG won the 2005 Oireachtas Prize for non-fiction.
In May 2006 Brandon published his first English book, Angels
and Rabies. Having knocked his straw bale cottage, he now
lives in a grass-roofed house in Co Westmeath. Manchán's new travel
book is a rollercoaster ride through the mad masala of modern
India, a culture pole-vaulting from the middle ages to the future,
titled Manchán's Travels: A Journey Through India.
Mary Coll
is a poet, writer, critic and broadcaster. She contributes
to programmes on RTE Radio One and Lyric Fm on Theatre, Visual
Arts and írish Arts in general. She was awarded an MA in modern
English for her thesis on The Social Environment in the
Works of Kate O'Brien. Caroline Considine in Without
My Cloak is her favourite O’Brien character.
John Bird
Born to a London–Irish family in 1947, he was an orphan,
thief, inmate, artist and poet before becoming a successful small
businessman in the late 1980’s. He then became Founder and Editor
-in-Chief of The Big Issue in 1991, to help the
homeless help themselves. The UN Scroll of Honour, an MBE and
the 2005/6 Beacon prize for Creative Giving are just three of
the many awards he has received. He has written his autobiography
Some Luck, and in March 2007 he wrote a bestseller:
How to change your life in 7 steps. He has recently
remarried for the third time and has five children.
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