{"id":214,"date":"2011-08-08T11:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T11:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2022-12-08T14:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:49:40","slug":"alumni","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/?page_id=214","title":{"rendered":"Alumni"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please contact the school if you would like the achievement of any past-pupil highlighted. We are interested in as diverse portrayal of our past-pupil population as possible.<\/em><\/p>\n

Joe Hogan<\/strong> of Opennet <\/a>was Ernst&Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2011). Joe was a Head-boy in PCS in the 1980’s.
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Neil Doyle<\/strong> is a Director of Bedford Consulting in the United Kingdom, who retains an active interest in sport, especially Gaelic Games in Portmarnock Community School.
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\nJames Fagan<\/strong> completed his leaving Certificate in PCS in 2011 and is now studying Theoretical Physics in Trinity College, Dublin. Picture source: the Irish Times<\/a>.
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\nOrla McCarthy<\/strong> recently featured in the Irish Independent’s Higher Options, Going to College Supplement<\/em>. Orla is a past-pupil of Portmarnock and is studying Engineering in Trinity College, Dublin.
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\nCongratulations to past-pupil David Rooney<\/strong> who won a European Gold medal as part of Ireland’s u23 cross-country team in Portugal. David studies and trains at McNeese State University, Louisiana,USA.<\/p>\n

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Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC, Doughty Street Chambers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is an international human rights lawyer and barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, London. She has acted in many landmark cases in the UK in recent years, including representing bereaved families and survivors of the 7\/7 London Bombings<\/em> and the Hillsborough<\/em> disaster, and in a series of cases which have changed the law for children in custody. Internationally, Caoilfhionn has acted in many significant human rights cases before the European Court of Human Rights and UN bodies. She has acted for, and secured the freedom of, many arbitrarily detained journalists, cartoonists, cultural rights workers and human rights defenders around the world, including in Iran, Egypt, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Pakistan, Kuwait and Equatorial Guinea.<\/p>\n

Caoilfhionn has particular expertise in accountability for crimes against journalists. Her current cases in this field include leading the international legal team for Jimmy Lai<\/em>, a journalist and pro-democracy campaigner imprisoned in Hong Kong; leading (jointly with colleague Amal Clooney) the international legal team for Maria Ressa<\/em>, the Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist in the Philippines; leading the international legal team for over 150 BBC Persian<\/em> journalists, targeted extraterritorially by Iran; and leading the international legal team for the bereaved family of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia<\/em>, assassinated in Malta in 2017. Caoilfhionn has given expert evidence on these issues to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Jineth Bedoya v. Colombia<\/em>), to Parliamentary inquiries in the UK, Australia and the Council of Europe, and to UNESCO (on targeting of women journalists online). Alongside her practice as a barrister, Caoilfhionn sits part-time as a Coroner in England and Wales, and is on the UK Advisory Board of RSF, Reporters Without Borders. She was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2017 for her \u201c<\/em>outstanding commitment to enabling the Human Rights Act\u2019s protections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Caoilfhionn grew up in Portmarnock and attended Portmarnock Community School from 1989 to 1995. She then studied at UCD, King\u2019s Inns and Cambridge University, and she taught at the law schools in UCD, Trinity College Dublin and the London School of Economics.<\/p>\n

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Past-pupil Paul Reid<\/a> stars in his one-man show Man of Valour.<\/p>\n

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Please contact the school if you would like the achievement of any past-pupil highlighted. We are interested in as diverse portrayal of our past-pupil population as possible. Joe Hogan of Opennet was Ernst&Young Entrepreneur of the Year (2011). Joe was a Head-boy in PCS in the 1980’s. ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Neil Doyle is a Director of Bedford […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11757,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.portmarnockcommunityschool.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}