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THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE BOARD 2024 -2027
The National Advisory Committee 2024-2027
NATIONAL COMMITTEES:
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The ICA is the largest women’s association in Ireland, with circa 6,000 members and over 440 Guilds across the Country. We cook, travel, craft and socialise!

The aims of the ICA is to provide a welcoming and fun organisation which offers support, friendship, personal development, education and life long learning.

Our members regularly learn new skills, participate in local charity initiatives and get involved in their local communities. As a member of the ICA our structure means that your voice is heard locally, in your county and nationally as we work to ensure that women’s interests, family policies and community values are at the forefront of Government policy both nationally and in county councils locally. We build on 110 years of nurturing the Irish Language and culture and we ensure that through teaching and practicing that we preserve the long tradition of heritage crafts that we are so proud of in this country.

ICA is a charity and the Charity Number is RCN 20006730

The objectives of the Association are to bring women together in fellowship and through co-operative effort, to develop and improve the standard of rural and urban life in Ireland having due regard for our Irish culture and to encourage the use of the Irish language in the affairs of Bantracht na Tuaithe.

National President Mary D’Arcy

National Secretary June Lawless

National Treasurer Mairead Phelan

Chair of the National Advisory Committee Irene O’Brien

Regional President South East Liz Dermody

Regional President South West Ena Howell

Regional President North West Maura McGuinness

Regional President North East Catherine O’Dowd

Cavan Federation President Rosemary Murphy

Galway Federation President Mai Connole

Kerry Federation President Mary Connolly Kenny

Longford Federation President Margo Ward

Mayo Federation President Margaret Moran

Offaly Federation President Carmel McConigley

Tipperary South President Anne Devitt

Waterford Federation President Mary Birney

Chair of the National Advisory Committee Irene O’Brien

National President Mary D’Arcy

National Secretary June Lawless

National Treasurer Mairead Phelan

Regional President South East Liz Dermody

Regional President South West Ena Howell

Regional President North West Maura McGuinness

Regional President North East Catherine O’Dowd

CARLOW Federation President  Mary Dunphy

CAVAN Federation President Rosemary Murphy

CLARE Federation President  Mary O’Halloran

CORK Federation President  Deirdre Hickey

DONEGAL Federation President Leona Hutchinson

DUBLIN Federation President Antoinette Rae

GALWAY Federation President Mai Connole

KERRY Federation President Mary Connolly Kenny

KILDARE Federation President Mary MacNamara

KILKENNY Federation President Shirley Power

LAOIS Federation President Deirdre Dunne

LEITRIM Federation President Pamela Rowley

LIMERICK Federation President Carol O’Keefe

LONGFORD Federation President Margo Ward

LOUTH Federation President  Iris Farrell

MAYO Federation President Margaret Moran

MEATH Federation President Phillis Roe

MONAGHAN Federation President Irene O’Brien

OFFALY Federation President Carmel McConigley

ROSCOMMON Federation President Marie Gorman

SLIGO Federation President Kathleen Gallagher

TIPPERARY NORTH Federation President Heather Evans

TIPPERARY SOUTH Federation President Anne Devitt

WATERFORD Federation President  Mary Birney

WESTMEATH Federation President Rosaleen Madden

WEXFORD Federation President  Breda Cahill

WICKLOW Federation President  Margaret Stephens

The Governance Review Committee: Mary D’Arcy Chair, Mairead Phelan, Mary O’Gorman and Eufemia Solinas.

The Finance Committee: Mary O’ Halloran Chair, Mary Harkin, Marie Gorman, Mairead Phelan, Heather Evans. and Eufemia Solinas.

The Procedures Committee: Mary McCarthy Chair, Marion Lyon Secretary, Barbara Meer, Joan Canning  and Áine Burge

The Handcraft Committee: Bronwyn Murray Chair, Mary O’Gorman, Eleanor Calnan, Ethel Patterson, Breda Bohan and Nora Keady.

The Arts Committee: Ena Howell, Carol O’Keeffe, Mary Moloney, Margaret Smith, Una O’Reilly, and Kathleen Gallagher.

The Produce Committee: Patricia Madden Chair and Elizabeth Brookes Secretary.

The Climate Action and Sustainability Committee: Susanna Braswell, Eithne Phelan, Kathleen Farrelly, Maureen McLaughlin, Breda Cahill, and Jane Jackson.

Coiste na Gaeilge: Mary Neylon, Helen Ui Mhuineachain, Maura McGuinness and Mary McNamara.