Permanent Representation staff
Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU, in Brussels
Address: Rue Froissart 50, 1040 Brussels, Belgium
Telephone: 00 32 2 28 23 200
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Permanent Representative (Head of Mission): Aingeal O'Donoghue (COREPER II)
Deputy Permanent Representative: Barbara Cullinane (COREPER I)
Political and Security Committee Representative: Cáit Moran
Military Representative to EU Military Committee: Brigadier
General Ray Murphy
ANTICI (COREPER II) attaché: Caoimh Kett
DEPUTY ANTICI (COREPER II) attaché: Aidan Carolan
MERTENS (COREPER I) attaché: Méabh Ní Drisceoil
NICOLAIDIS (PSC) attaché: Eoin Lavelle
PA to Permanent Representative O'Donoghue: Brendan O'Rourke
PA to Deputy Permanent Representative Cullinane: Kieran Molloy
PA to PSC Representative Moran: Patricia Hickey
Clerical Officer (COREPER I): Kieran Molloy
Clerical Officer (COREPER II): Máire Heffernan
Press Relations Section (For all Sections)
Press Spokesperson/Head of Press relations: Alan O’Brien,
Tel: 00 32 490 56 48 43
Clerical Officer: Frodo-Michael Anderson
Policy Officer: Eimear Brennan
EU-UK Unit
Counsellor: Don Sexton
Attaché: Ciarán Delargy
Attaché: Gavin Beale
Clerical Officer: Frodo-Michael Anderson
Policy Officer: Paul Whelan
Institutions Section/EU General Affairs
Head of Institutions Section: Philip Grant
Attaché: Michael Williams (EU staffing)
Attaché: Nigel Hutson (European Parliament)
Clerical Officer: Sinéad Maguire
Policy Officer: Greg O’Meara
CFSP/CSDP
Counsellor: James Ryan (Defence)
Counsellor: Colonel Gavin Young (EU Military Committee Working Group)
Attaché: Brendan Fitzgerald (EDA Capabilities)
Attaché: Elaine Hollowed (Politico-Military Group)
Attaché: Conor Nelson (Hybrid/Cyber)
Attaché: Lt. Col. Conor Gorey (EU Military Committee Working Group)
Attaché: Comdt. Laura Lafferty (EU Military Committee Working Group/ Headline Goal Taskforce)
Attaché: Cormac Shine (European Peace Facility)
Executive Officer: Melissa Murphy (Defence)
Clerical Officer: Sandra Hynes (Defence)
Finance
Counsellor: Pat Casey (Economic and Financial Issues, EMJ)
Attaché: Hazel Ryan (EU Budget, Financial Regulations)
Attaché: Emma Moyles (Financial Services)
Attaché: Chloe O’Reilly (Financial Services)
Attaché: Rachel Graham (Fiscal (Tax) Affairs)
Clerical Officer: Alan O’Donoghue
Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Attaché: Fionnuala Bourke (Cohesion Policy, Staff Regulations, Public Procurement, eGovernment, Transparency)
Policy Officer: Ellen McCaffrey
Development Policy
Counsellor: Rosarie McCarthy
Policy Officer: Caitríona King
CFSP
Attaché: Karolina Ó Beacháin (Enlargement, Central and South East Europe, Western Balkans)
Attaché: Sarah Holden (Relex)
Attaché: Emma Tobin (Relex)
Attaché: Chris Green (Russia, Ukraine, Eastern Europe & Central Asia)
Attaché: Darragh Higgins (Asia & Oceania and Transatlantic Relations)
Attaché: Justin Ryan (Middle East/Gulf and EuroMed WGs)
Attaché: Ciara Leacy (Middle East/Gulf)
Attaché: Alison Meagher (CIVCOM, Conflict Prevention, Mediation and Stabilisation/COCON, Global Gateway)
Attaché: Elizabeth Keogh (Africa I & ACP)
Attaché: Sean McGovern (Africa II)
Attaché: Peter O’Connor (Latin America and COHOM)
Clerical Officer: Gerard Gough
Justice and Home Affairs
Counsellor: Brian Henderson
Attaché: Fiachra Byrne (Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters, Data Protection and external aspects of Migration)
Attaché: Owen McLaughlin (Judicial Cooperation in Criminal matters)
Attaché: John Dunphy (Asylum and Migration)
Attaché: Micheál Rooney (Police Cooperation / Counter Terrorism)
Executive Officer: Niall von Metzradt
Clerical Officer: Hannah Macken
Environment, Climate and Communications
Counsellor: Noel Regan (Climate)
Attaché: Aidan Ryan (Environmental and Atomic Questions)
Attaché: Colm Ó Conaill (Energy)
Attaché: Paul Shortt (Telecommunications)
Attaché: Eamonn O'Halloran (Cyber Security)
Clerical Officer: Karen Kavanagh
Clerical Officer: Louise Gorman
Social Protection
Attaché: Stephen Hanna
Transport
Counsellor: Ronan Gallagher
Attaché: Peter Morgan
Attaché: Lydia Rooney
Clerical Officer: Lena Howe
Enterprise, Trade and Employment Trade
Counsellor: Grainne O'Carroll
Attaché: Daniel Reilly
Clerical Officer: James O’Brien
Policy Officer: Emma O’Mahony
Competiveness
Counsellor: Caoimhe Gavin (Competitiveness, Single Market, Industry, SMEs, State Aid)
Attaché: Eoin Cuddihy (Single Market, Competition, Better Regulation, Standardisation, Intellectual Property, Telecommunications - Data Act)
Attaché: Ciarán McLoughlin (Company Law, Chemicals, Workplace Health & Safety)
Attaché: William Reid (EPSCO)
Clerical Officer: Louise Gorman
Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Counsellor: Martin Crowley
Attaché: Kevin Foley-Friel (Sanitary & Phytosanitary)
Attaché: Colm Ó Súilleabháin (Fisheries)
Executive Officer: Mary Walshe
Clerical Officer: Rachel Black
Maritime Affairs
Attaché: Eoin Leahy
Health
Counsellor: Eugene Lennon
Attaché: Austin Cullen
Attaché: Dympna Boyle
Clerical Officer: Lena Howe
Education
Attaché: Leo Kilroy
Clerical Officer: Louise Gorman
Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Attaché: Leo Kilroy (Education, Skills and Higher Education)
Attaché: Paul O’Brien (Research and Innovation)
Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media
Attaché: Aisling de Lacy
Attaché: Rebecca Ryder
Clerical Officer: Karen Kavanagh
Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Attaché: Richard Quilliam
Policy Officer: Peter Lonergan
Housing, Local Government and Heritage
Attaché: Padraic Dempsey
Clerical Officer: Karen Kavanagh
Administration section
Director of Administration: Philip Grant
Head of Administration: Daniel Fitzgerald
Administration Attaché: Lisa Murphy
Executive Officer: Brian Thornberry
Clerical Officer: Gavin Quill
Clerical Officer: Katie Shaw
Administration Officer: Carine Boisdenghien
Administration Officer: Nathalie Syoen
Administration Officer: Faldiela Collins
Building Facilities Manager: Cosmin Guta
Administration Officer: Molly Walker
Administration Officer: Sindy Kotsaridis
ICT
Clerical Officer: Alan Harper
Executive Officer: Fiona Walsh Larkin
Office of the Attorney General
Counsellor: Bríd Moriarty
Office of the Revenue Commissioners
Attaché: Eoghan Ryan
Attaché: Sarah Joyce
Oireachtas representative
Counsellor: Paul Conway (based at European Parliament)