We directly manage fifteen of the county’s twenty-seven post-primary schools and are a trustee partner for a further eight Community and Comprehensive schools. Our school Principals play a vital leadership role in managing our school communities but what does this…
Christina McEleney is the Coordinator for Alcohol & other Drugs Education and Training for the North West Region, hosted by Donegal ETB. She is also a professionally qualified Workplace Wellbeing specialist and supports our Workplace Wellbeing activities. In this blog,…
Ciaran Cunningham is our Head of IT and following a number of high-profile cyber attacks this year, he spearheaded our adoption of a cyber secure solution to mobile phone use, the first ETB in the country to do so and…
Eamonn Ryan is a former Deputy Principal and Acting Principal of Moville Community College and is currently coordinating the roll out of the ETB ethos initiative across our fifteen post-primary schools – an initiative all ETBs across the country are rolling out.…
Vincent Kennedy is one of Ireland’s leading composers and conductors and since 2008 has been the conductor and musical director of our youth orchestra, the Donegal Youth Orchestra, part of our music service, Donegal Music Education Partnership. For the past…
Fiona Temple is the Principal of our Milford school, Mulroy College, a school community of five hundred and fifty students and forty-eight teaching staff. Mulroy College has a long history of taking a restorative approach to managing relationships and in…
Sean Quinn is originally from Scotland and is Head of Sales at Highland Radio, having worked in sales and marketing for over twenty years, gaining huge business experience while working within the media, telecoms, financial and new business enterprise sectors.…
Earlier this year Donegal TD Thomas Pringle introduced a bill to Dáil Éireann calling for a referendum on lowering the voting age in Ireland to 16. As part of the preparation for this bill he consulted with the Student Council in…
Treasa Mc Ginley is the Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) Coordinator for the Donegal ETB’s Further Education and Training (FET) Service. When the global pandemic hit last year, TEL came to the fore is supporting staff and students with emergency remote…
Rory White is a Guidance Counsellor in our Stranorlar school, Finn Valley College. Leaving Certificate, Leaving Certificate Applied (LCA) and LCVP results were released last Friday: in this blog he provides some advice for students. The long wait is…