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Vicky Rattigan (M.A.)
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Vicky joined the full-time team of YCW with responsibility for the 18-25 year age group of the Dublin Region. She then went on to become National Development Worker and is currently the National Co-ordinator for the YCW in Ireland. Vicky has a Master of Arts Degree in Management: Community and Voluntary Services, for which she studied at All Hallows College in Dublin. She also studied Community & Youth Work at NUI Maynooth for which she received a Diploma.
As a full-time worker for the Movement, Vicky has served on the Episcopal Conference for the Commission for the Laity and the Justice and Peace Commission. She is a Board Member of the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI), the representative body for national voluntary youth work organisations in Ireland and is currently serving on the Board of the City of Dublin Youth Service Board (CDYSB) whose role is to promote, support and co-ordinate development of voluntary youth clubs, community-based youth projects and youth services in the city of Dublin. |
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Gerry Keegan
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Gerry is currently working on a part-time basis with the Movement. He originally joined the YCW back in the 70’s in Donnycarney Parish and was the first National President of the Irish Movement. Having spent some time as a full-timer for the Movement Gerry went on to direct school retreats around the country (which he still does) and also spent some time working as the Co-ordinator of the Gardiner St. Gospel Choir Mass.
Gerry has a Dip. Lay/Pastoral ministry; Counselling – Reality Therapy and has a keen interest in Music Ministry. He is a talented singer / songwriter, writing songs based on his own life experience and the founding principles of the YCW, the Three Truths. His first album “Love is Patient” is available from his website www.gerrykeegan.com |
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Fr. Eoin McCrystal
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Eoin was born and bred in Ballyfermot Dublin. He attended the local De La Salle Brothers Primary School, Vocational School Kylemore Road and the Ballyfermot Senior College.
Around the time when Eoin was attending Ballyfermot College, Eoin's brother, Peter, a member of the local Young Christian Workers section, set up the first IMPACT group in Ireland and Eoin became a member. This was his first experience of the YCW method in action and it was to be a continuous influence even to this day. Two years later Eoin was elected Regional President of the 12 Impact Groups in Dublin and was heavily involved in establishing new groups in parishes around the city.
In 1983 he entered Clonliffe College to begin training for the priesthood in Dublin diocese. His studies were in UCD and the Gregorian University in Rome. Ordained in 1990 Eoin was sent teaching in Swords and resumed his contact with YCW after establishing a local group.
In 1996 Eoin got the opportunity to become Full Time National Chaplain with the YCW. This was a time of restructuring in the movement, especially in the areas of finance and the full time staff. In 2000 he was appointed curate in Iona Road but continued as National Chaplain in a part-time capacity. This is still the case today in his current appointment as Parish Priest in Holy Trinity Parish, Donaghmede with responsibility for the developing area of Clongriffin/Balgriffin. |
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Larry Joyce
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Eoin was born and bred in Ballyfermot Dublin. He attended the local De La Salle Brothers Primary School, Vocational School Kylemore Road and the Ballyfermot Senior College.
Around the time when Eoin was attending Ballyfermot College, Eoin's brother, Peter, a member of the local Young Christian Workers section, set up the first IMPACT group in Ireland and Eoin became a member. This was his first experience of the YCW method in action and it was to be a continuous influence even to this day. Two years later Eoin was elected Regional President of the 12 Impact Groups in Dublin and was heavily involved in establishing new groups in parishes around the city.
In 1983 he entered Clonliffe College to begin training for the priesthood in Dublin diocese. His studies were in UCD and the Gregorian University in Rome. Ordained in 1990 Eoin was sent teaching in Swords and resumed his contact with YCW after establishing a local group.
In 1996 Eoin got the opportunity to become Full Time National Chaplain with the YCW. This was a time of restructuring in the movement, especially in the areas of finance and the full time staff. In 2000 he was appointed curate in Iona Road but continued as National Chaplain in a part-time capacity. This is still the case today in his current appointment as Parish Priest in Holy Trinity Parish, Donaghmede with responsibility for the developing area of Clongriffin/Balgriffin. |
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Paul O'Neill
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Paul graduated from NCAD (National College of Art and Design) in 2003 with a BDes in Visual Communication. Shortly after leaving college Paul established Pen + Pixel Design (www.penandpixel.ie) with other graduates from NCAD before traveling around the world for a year and working in a VSI volunteer workcamp in Italy and then Broome, Western Australia.
Upon returning to Ireland Paul started as a junior designer with Chemistry, one of Ireland's leading advertising agencies. In 2005 Paul moved to DCOY design, a progressive young design studio working on projects such as the Special Olympics rebrand and IRFU Annual Report.
Paul has joined YCW as a volunteer designer helping out with our various design projects. Paul is a talented Graphic / Web Designer. His work and portfolio can be viewed on his website: www.pauloneilldesign.com. |
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