About Us

The Board

Professor Niamh Brennan
Chairman, Dublin Docklands Development Authority

Niamh Brennan is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Director and Michael MacCormac Professor of Management at University College Dublin (UCD). She is Academic Director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at UCD. She is a non-executive director of the Health Service Executive, and is a former non-executive director of Ulster Bank, Lifetime Assurance Company Ltd, Coillte Teoranta (the State Forestry Company) and of Co-Operation Ireland. 

 

Dónall Curtin
Byrne Curtin Kelly

Dónall Curtin is a Fellow of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants in Ireland and Founder and Senior Partner of Byrne Curtin Kelly. He has served on several of the Institute's committees, including chairing the Institute's Technical sub-committee on Financial Reporting Standards in which capacity he represented the Institute on the Accounting Standards Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies - Ireland. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is a board member of the Health Insurance Authority and is a director if Chambers Ireland.

 

Niamh O' Sullivan
Arups Consulting Engineers

Niamh O'Sullivan is a Chartered Member of Engineers Ireland. She is a member of the Engineers Ireland accreditation board. She is a graduate of University College Cork and Imperial College, University of London. A director of Arup Consulting Engineers, she has over 20 years experience in the planning and environmental assessment of major infrastructure projects.

Niall Coveney
Ernst & Young

Niall Coveney is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in ireland, a licensed Insolvency Practitioner and member of the Insolvency Practitioners Association. He has worked for many years with Ernst & Young both in Ireland and abroad. He is former member of the Board of The Hume Street Hospital. 

Brendan Malone
Malone Power & Co

Brendan Malone is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is Managing Partner in the firm of Malone Power and Company, Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors. He is a former non-Executive Director of the Railway Procurement Agency and ACC Bank.

Catherine Mullarkey

Catherine Mullarkey is a commerce graduate from University College Dublin and a qualified chartered certified accountant. With over 20 years experience in commercial investment and banking in Ireland, Uk and Europe, she is a director of Blacktree Consulting Limited, a specialist finance and property advisory company.

Mark Griffin
Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local
Government

Mark Griffin is Assistant Secretary over the Warter and Planning Division in the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, having previously served as Assistant Secretary over the Corporate Services Division of the Department. He has also worked in the Departments of Fianance and Foreign Affairs. He is a computer science graduate from Trinity College Dublin. He is a board member of the Irish Heritage Trust.

Yvonne Farrell
Grafton Architects

Yvonne Farrell graduated from the School of Architecture in University College Dublin, where she began teaching in 1976. She lectures extensively and has been Visiting Critic in Schools of Architecture in Europe, China and USA. She is Visiting Professor in Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Switzerland and Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor in Harvard. She is a Fellow of both the RIAI and the RIBA. She is co-founder of Grafton Architects, established in 1978, and founder member of Group 91' Architects, winners of the International Competetion for the Regeneration of Temple Bar, Dublin. Her work includes educational buildings, Government Department offices and numerous Department of Education and Science schools cited in OECD school design publications. Grafton Architects won World Buidling of the Year Award 2008 for the Bocconi University Project in Milan and were one of the five finalists for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2008.

Boardmember Yvonne Farrell

 

 

 


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Docklands Fact

The restored chq building is the last surviving warehouse of the Docklands, this mighty structure hosted a banquet for 4,000 veterans of the Crimean War in 1856.