CLASS NOTES
Lufthansa itself. He has been a purser
with Lufthansa on the short-range routes
since January 2001.
JOHN CHURCH BSc ’86
John recently accepted a position at
Arthritis Ireland in Dublin as chief
executive officer. He was previously
employed at Richmond Marketing as
commercial director. for that. Having just missed out on direction, he cut his teeth in brand
funding twice — once from the RTÉ/Cork development and worked with global and
ANDREA O’DONNELL MA ’86 Film Centre and once from the Irish Film local brands before setting up
Board — the film had to be financed Islandbridge, a Dublin-based agency
Andrea spent just one year at UCD privately. He is offering people the offering strategic brand planning,
completing an MA in literature. After a opportunity to become an associate development and management. In
long sojourn in London and Oxford, she producer to share in the excitement of addition to the hands-on work, Gerard
came back to Ireland nearly four years making a movie and to attend the writes and speaks extensively about
ago. She is now a freelance writer, celebrity premiere. If you are interested, branding and is currently plotting how to
working mainly from home in Derry. email maskpictures@gmail.com. extend the Islandbridge franchise
Andrea takes frequent ponderous walks worldwide.
with her two Dalmatians. PAUL GALLIGAN BCL ’86,
LLM ’90
PADRAIG CRONIN DipLIS ’87
Paul has been promoted to partner of Padraig has been in England since 1989,
national US law firm Seyfarth Shaw. He is working at first as a cataloguer/classifier in
based in the New York office where he the HQ Library of British Gas. He now
practises labour and employment law. works as an information researcher with
Paul’s experience ranges from federal and BG Group, the exploration/production
state court trials on both traditional labour company created in 1997 as a result of the
and employment discrimination issues to British Gas demerger. “Hello to anyone
labour arbitrations and contract from the DipLIS class of 1987. How’s
negotiations. He developed his litigation everyone else been doing?”
skills while working for a union-side firm
in New York City. Since coming to Seyfarth
PETER COLLINS BE ’86 Shaw, he has added to his experience in a
broad range of labour and employment
Peter has recently launched DezineForce, matters, including workers’ compensation,
offering engineering design software on non-compete and multi-plaintiff litigation,
demand over the web, and is located in ERISA and Railway Labor Act litigation,
Southampton, UK. He was previously at negotiating collective bargaining
Sondex as operations director. “Raising the agreements, drug-testing policies, plant-
venture capital before having revenues closing agreements, employment
was the biggest challenge!” The agreements and separation agreements.
PETER FITZPATRICK BA ’88,
company’s solutions are based on world-
HDipEd ’89
leading technology from University of GERARD TANNAM BA ’87,
Southampton.
MA ’88
Peter recently accepted a position at
Microsoft Ireland Research in Dublin as
SEAMUS MORAN BA ’86 After college, Gerard spent 10 years in EMEA business manager, entertainment
Hong Kong as Inspector of Police and also and devices division. He originally moved
After 20 years as an actor Seamus is about as an entrepreneur (he owned an art to New York in 1990 and taught high
to direct his first movie Tome Feeines. It’s a gallery and an events company). On school in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. In
short 15-minute film but no less intensive returning to Ireland, in a change of 1992 he moved into composition and
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