Training

2026

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Decision Making and Problem Solving with UCD Professional Academy

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Presentation Skills with UCD Professional Academy

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Feedback That Matters with UCD Professional Academy

2025

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Building Resilience without Burnout with UCD Professional Academy

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Time Management with UCD Professional Academy

  • Professional Academy Skill Sprint in Influencing for Impact with UCD Professional Academy

  • Mental Health First Aid with Mental Health First Aid Ireland

  • Handling Challenging Calls with DCM Learning

  • Professional Academy Diploma in Digital Media Design with UCD Professional Academy

  • Service Hub Software with HubSpot Academy (2025 - 2026)

2024

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2023

  • Inbound with HubSpot Academy (2023 - 2025)

  • Cyanotypes with National Youth Council of Ireland

  • TUSLA’s Introduction to Children First E-Learning Training (2023 - 2026)

2022

  • Sonic Explorations with National Youth Council of Ireland

  • Meitheal: Tusla-led Early Intervention Practice Model

  • Intermediate Motivational Interviewing with Motivational Interviewing Ireland

  • Design & Evaluation of Youth Arts & STEAM Projects with National Youth Council of Ireland

  • Introduction to Circus Skills with National Youth Council of Ireland

  • Planning for Success with Youth Diversion Project’s Best Practice Development Team

  • YLS/CMI Sv and 2.0 Training with Youth Diversion Project’s Best Practice Development Team

  • Exploring Anger Training with Youth Diversion Project’s Best Practice Development Team

  • Outcomes Focused Planning Design (Logic Model) Training with Youth Diversion Project’s Best Practice Development Team

  • Introduction to Motivational Interviewing with Motivational Interviewing Ireland

  • Qualified Narrative4 Storytelling Exchange Facilitator

  • Youth Arts Summer School Digital Music, Songwriting and Recording with National Youth Council of Ireland

  • HSeLanD - Assessing Your Own Leadership Performance

  • HSELanD - Cyber Security Awareness

  • HSELanD - Dignity in the Workplace

2021

  • GDPR Training with Kilkenny and Carlow Education and Training Board

  • Teacher Artist Partnership CPD in Enhancing Arts Education in Ireland with Department of Education

  • Child Protection Awareness Training (Safeguarding Programme) with Ossory Youth (2020 - 2023)

  • TUSLA’s Introduction to Children First E-Learning Training (2020 - 2023)

Achievements

Skydived for Charity (2025)

Raised €2,750.00 for Youth Suicide Prevention Ireland with the Irish Parachute Club

Songwriter and performer under the project ‘Feibhár’ (2011- present)

  • Performing as a solo artist and as a group member since

  • Songwriter, composer and musical contributor to other groups

  • Appearing live and pre-recorded on local and national radio stations

Involvement in music competitions

  • Performing in finals and received first place as a participant on multiple occasions

  • Judged a Battle of the Bands run by Ossory Youth (2017)

independently released a number of songs and performance pieces and composed music for other people

  • My debut single using knowledge of the industry (2019)

  • Composed the soundtrack for an animation played in the Lighthouse Theatre (2019)

  • Composed music for a web-based interactive story aimed at primary school aged children (2019)

  • My spoken word piece about reproductive rights the Repeal campaign covered by Hot Press Magazine (2018)

Volunteer Work

  • Parents Association Representative at The Model School Kilkenny (2023 - 2024)

  • Member on the Board of Directors for Ossory Youth (2020-2021)

  • Volunteer with music and podcast youth groups with Ossory Youth (2020-2021)

  • Butler Gallery Front of House (2020-2021)

  • CPD Songwriting Representative at BIMM Institute (2013 - 2014)

  • Café Worker at Ossory Youth (2012)

  • Examination Attendant at Loreto Secondary School (2012)

  • Member at The Drum Foróige Youth Centre Kilkenny (2012 - 2013)

  • Member of Cara Programme at Loreto Secondary School Kilkenny (2012 - 2013)

  • Vice-Chairperson and Founding Member at European Youth Democracy Project at Ossory Youth (2011 - 2013)

  • Member at Youthink at Ossory Youth (2011 - 2013)

  • Founding Member of Kilkenny Peer Education Group at Ossory Youth (2010 - 2013)

  • Member of Loreto Secondary School Kilkenny Choir (2007 - 2013)

  • Founding Member at Callan Street Arts (2010)

Experience

senior operations executive at ucd professional academy (2026-present)

  • Following all GDPR and Data Protection policies when keeping up to date records

  • Maintaining confidentiality with all stakeholders

  • Enhancing and overseeing Subject Matter Expert experience

  • Assisting with management of learner experience and programme delivery

  • In-person, online and hybrid event coordination

  • Disseminating all mass communications to Subject Matter Expert network

  • Collecting, compiling and reporting on ongoing feedback and analytics to Company Directors

  • Developing and managing operational processes

  • Leading cross-team collaborative efforts on CX initiatives

  • Designing and delivering presentations

  • Leading planning and retrospective meetings

  • Crafting thorough documentation

operations executive at ucd professional academy (2023-2026)

  • Following all GDPR and Data Protection policies when keeping up to date records

  • Maintaining confidentiality with all stakeholders

  • Enhancing and overseeing Subject Matter Expert experience

  • Assisting with management of learner experience and programme delivery

  • Consolidating and managing SME schedules and substitutions

  • Triaging queries within CRM

  • Supporting learners and Subject Matter Experts to meet their personal and professional development goals and with academic/welfare issues/queries

  • In-person, online and hybrid event coordination

  • Disseminating all mass communications to Subject Matter Expert network

  • Collecting, compiling and reporting on ongoing feedback and analytics to Company Directors

  • Assessing hiring needs and analysing available skill sets to utilise current resources

  • Initiating cross-team collaborative efforts on CX initiatives

  • Designing and delivering presentations

  • Creating, maintaining and updating resources

RURAL UBU (YOUR PLACE YOUR SPACE) YOUTH WORKER, AT OSSORY YOUTH’S CALLAN YOUTH SPACE (2023 - 2023)

  • Engaging with young people with additional needs from a variety of backgrounds in innovative and needs based interventions in rural locations

  • Targeting and engaging young people on the basis of need, relating to some or all of the following:

    • mental health, equity, risk, ethnicity, disability, homelessness and/or deprivation

  • Facilitated collaboration with GMCBeats to release a song for Cruinniú na nÓg 2023

Youth Justice Worker, Compass Youth Diversion Project at Ossory Youth (2022-2023)

  • Assessing and responding to needs of young people aged 12-17 years old in accordance with Youth Diversion Project operational requirements

  • Engaging young offenders in a process of learning and development, enabling them to examine their own behaviour and supporting them in making positive lifestyle choices

  • Using motivational interviewing techniques and a young person-centred approach

  • Enabling one young person to complete the Work to Learn Programme

  • Operating efficient office procedures in line with data protection act requirements

  • Attending Referral Assessment Committee meetings and preparing written reports as required

  • Doing outreach to reach young people and their parents and guardians where they are

creative coordinator at Ossory Youth (2021-2023)

  • Facilitating a music-centred space for young people

  • Facilitating three art groups per week for young people

  • Collaborating with Kilkenny Arts Council to facilitate an artist in residence in our space

  • Planning sessions for different abilities, needs and wants and maintaining a safe environment

  • Providing meaningful engagement with art forms while achieving youth work objectives

  • Encouraging problem-solving and growth in a collaborative and inclusive way

  • Involving young people in decision making processes

  • Co-facilitating Summer Sonics 2022 with Jeremy Hickey

Musician Educator at Music Generation Kilkenny (2021-2022)

  • Teaching songwriting and music production skills to young people ages 11 to 18 online and in school and youth work settings

  • Exploring young people’s opinions and ideas through the songwriting and creative process

  • Teaching ukulele to children aged 6 to 13 in primary school settings

  • Working with children and young people to prepare them for performances

Online Podcast Group, volunteering at Ossory Youth (2021)

  • A weekly collaborative online course involving young people in podcast creation and production with young people ages 12 to 18

  • Facilitating young people to engaging with exploring and speaking to what is on their mind

Online Songwriting Group, volunteering at Ossory Youth (2020)

  • A weekly collaborative online course involving young people in the songwriting and production of a song to raise money for charity

  • Encouraging young people to creatively express themselves

Summer Music Programme, volunteering at Ossory Youth (2020)

  • Doing administrative work for the programme within the building and ensuring a safe environment for the participants

  • Collaborating during the workshop vocally and instrumentally

  • Providing experiential learning, amplifying young people’s voices through songwriting

  • Aiding one of the young people with an incident via Children's First training