NWCI Staff
Orla O'Connor
Acting CEO and Head of Policy
Tel: (01) 8898476
Orla is a member of the Senior Management Team, responsible for the overall co-ordination of the integrated Policy and Practice programme and management of the policy team within the NWCI and for the development of policy positions for the NWCI through a consultative and participative process with affiliates and the women's sector.
Rachel Doyle
Head of Outreach and Support
Tel: (01) 8786400
Rachel is a member of the Senior Management Team and is responsible for the management, development and implementation of the NWCI's outreach and support programme to its affiliates and to the women's sector. She is also responsible for developing and maintaining relationships with strategic partners.
Anne Gibney
Administrator
Tel: 01 878 7248
Anne oversees the co-ordination and overall management of the office policies, procedures and follow-up communication.
Jacqueline Healy
Women's Health & Human Rights Worker
Tel: (01) 8786401
Jacqueline Healy started in September 2011 as NWCI Women's Health and Human Rights Worker. Jacqueline has worked in the area of human rights and development for over 15 years. She holds a law degree and a Masters in Human Rights. She has recently returned from South Africa where she directed a local NGO focusing on the right to health and social security. Before that she worked in the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland, The National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism and the Irish Refugee Council.
Her work with the NWCI will focus on the advancing a women's health agenda and supporting the roll out of a gender mainstreaming project with the Health Service Executive. She will also support the development of the Women's Human Rights Alliance to promote women's human rights, monitor the implementation of international commitments as they relate to women and developing the capacity of women's organisations to engage in women's human rights advocacy. She also chairs the Irish Observatory on Violence Against Women.
Eóin Murray
"Where are the Women?" Project Co-ordinator
Tel: (01) 8898477
Eóin Murray is the coordinator of the NWCI's project to get more women into politics and to advance a feminist political agenda.
Previous to this Eóin worked for Trócaire, in a variety of roles. Most recently he managed Trócaire's Campaigns, Development Education, Policy and Church teams (the Mobilising for Justice programme).
In 2004/5 he worked for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza (www.pchrgaza.org) where he campaigned for electoral quotas, the protection of civilians [in particular women and children] and against early marriage and other forms of GBV. He then moved to Trócaire (www.trocaire.org ), working as their Palestine Programme officer. He spent considerable time in the region coordinating the organisation's response to the war on Lebanon, the siege on Gaza and Israel's daily violations of international law.
He started his career in human rights as a volunteer with Front Line Defenders (www.frontlinedefenders.org). He has also worked for the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (www.ipsc.ie ) and in the civil staff of London's Metropolitan Police Service. Eóin holds a MA in War Studies from Kings College, London and a BA in English and History from UCD.
He has been published widely on the topic of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and appeared extensively in the Irish and international media. He has a particular interest in the issue of political communications and campaigning. He loves to cook and has been involved in a number of culinary delights and disasters, alike. He has piles of unread books beside his bed but he is most excited by the prospects of Jeanette Winterson's new book Why be happy when you can be normal?
He lives in Dublin with Natalie and their two sons, Tom and Hugo.
Eóin can be contacted in the NWCI on any aspect of the campaign to promote women in politics, via e-mail: eoinm[at]nwci.ie .
Michelle Culbert
Information and Social Media Co-ordinator
Tel: (01) 8898472