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Gemma Maher is Principal of Rathcoole Educate Together National School in Dublin. Gemma Maher failed her Leaving Cert once but found her way to teaching through Coleraineand Glasgow University. Now she's principal of Rathcoole Educate Together National School. In this episode, she talks about her own diagnosis of Autism and ADHD and what that means for her in her role.
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Class Cover is a Australian platform that connects schools with substitute teachers and SNAs. Schools can build their network, post booking requests and get cover confirmed in minutes. Substitute teachers and SNAs can manage their availability, connect with local schools and get booked through the app. ClassCover is launching in Ireland in2026. Over 5000 school, that 1 in 2 schools in Australia are registered with the platform. They are launching in Ireland this year and I want to find out more about it so here I am talking to its CEO Ben Grozier. https://www.classcoverapp.ie/[email protected]
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Sarah Curran an experienced educator, leader and coach whois originally from Dublin and now living in Wexford, is the inspiring force behind Flow Growth Hub, a space created to nurture growth-minded people. With a background in education and leadership both in Ireland and Dubai and a deep belief and expertise in the power of strengths-based coaching, Sarah brings clarity, calm, and community to those navigating the challenges of education, business and personal evolution. With a Masters in Positive Psychology and over 14 years of experience in education, she is a trained coach & facilitator, Mental Health First Aider, and Yoga teacher for children and adults, she talks to me about decision to leave Ireland, the brand she has developed; ebb_flow- flourish and the challenges facing teachers returning to Ireland from abroad. https://ae.linkedin.com/in/sarah-curran-41ba39299https://www.instagram.com/ebb_flow_flourish/reels/
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Maeve Mahon is CEO of CEIST; (Catholic Education Irish Schools Trust) and was appointed in December 2024. She is a native of Co Meath and has worked in the Diocese of Kildare& Leighlin supporting Catholic primary education for the past thirty years. As Diocesan Secretary for Primary Education, she has effectively worked alongside the Patron, school principals, chairpersons, board members and parents to develop structures that support and scaffold Catholic schoolcommunities. We talk about her leadership and her first year in the role .We talk about her leadership journey and her first year inthis new role. We talk about her leadership journey and her first year inthis new role.
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Dr. Lisa Riegel earned dual bachelor's degrees in English and Secondary Education from Kent State University. She holds a master's degree in curriculum and instruction from Otterbein University and a Ph.D. in Education Policy and Leadership from The Ohio State University. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals and she has authored five books, including her two latest books, NeuroWell, and Aspirations to Operations, focused on brain science and how we can leverage it to help people become happier, healthier, and more successfulBooks:https://www.amazon.com/s?k=lisa+riegel&crid=30TTDXLJRNQMO&sprefix=lisa+riegel%2Caps%2C158&ref=nb_sb_noss_2Website: http://www.lisariegel.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisariegel/https://www.epinstitute.net/
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Dr Sajita Setia is a New Zealand based physician and published researcher in digital wellbeing who has led award-winning medical and health education globally. She is an evidence-based educator She helps families and schools raise resilient, balanced young people in a world of constant screens. She's a digital wellbeing and youth online safety expert who turns complex research into simple, practical tools for parents, preteens, and teens. Her background in medicine medical affairs, and health education allows her to bridge science with real life.Australia has just introduced a social media ban for under 16s and New Zealand, a nationwide school smartphone ban in 2024. Families everywhere are grappling with digital overload, rising youth depression, anxiety, and thechallenges of online safety. Dr Sajita brings evidence-based, practical insights that speak directly to today’s most urgent parenting concerns. https://sajitasetia.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/sajita-setia/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyp9d3ddqyo
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James Callaghan is an experienced CBT therapist, EMDRconsultant, and mental health nurse with over a decade working in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). He is the founder of Capital Psychotherapy, offering therapy for children, adolescents, and adults, andrecently launched Minds in Schools, a training initiative supporting parents and teachers with practical CBT strategies.This year, James published his first book, LeoRoars: A Brave Lion’s Guide to Overcoming Panic Attacks, endorsed by Dr. Judith Beck of the Beck Institute, USA. The book is the first in his planned CBT series designed to help children directly while also giving parents practical skills to support them. James is here to talk about anxiety and panicattacks, emetophobia; fear of vomiting, school refusal and how to have difficult conversations about potential diagnoses with parents. https://mindsinschools.ie/https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-callaghan-094960131/?originalSubdomain=ie
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Having spent many years as a primary school teacher, FionaForman is passionate about placing well-being at the heart of school life. For the past few years, promoting this has been her focus- through her books, media contributions, and training sessions. She holds an M. Sc. in Applied Positive Psychology, the science of well-being, from the University of East London.Her programmes include Weaving Well-Being, a positive mental health programme for primary school children which is now in use in the majority of Irish Primary Schools, and also Wired for Well-Being, her programme for second-level students.Her Junior programme, Welcome to Well-Being, has beenrecently released in Ireland and abroad.https://www.instagram.com/fionaformanwellbeing/https://fionaformanwellbeing.com/books-and-programs/[email protected]
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Katrina Crilly is Principal & Founder -The Real Me Academy Educating children aged 4–18 to build confidence, emotional resilience & lifelong thinking habits through a digital-first, research-backed platform. She hold a Master’s in Collaborative Leadership and has contributed to severaleducational advisory committees, working closely with the Department of Education and the Education and Training Inspectorate in Northern Ireland. Her passion has always been to look beyond curriculum targets—to see the wholechild. She has developed the first curriculum-integrated subject embedding personal growth as part of what children learn every day in response to what she feels are inadequate wellbeing programmes. https://therealmeacademy.com/https://therealmeacademy.com/contact-us/https://uk.linkedin.com/in/katrina-crilly-34270560
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Dr. Clara is a Chartered Psychologist with the Psychology Society of Ireland, (PSI) and the British Psychology Society, (BPS)Dr. Clara has over 25 years of experience of working in disability and special education settings. Past experiences include work in residential settings for adults with IntellectualDisability, Special schools and alternative education provision settings for ‘at risk’ youths. Additionally, Dr. Clara was an NCSE advisor, (Behavior and Well-being) for over 5 years. Her personal experiences navigating her way through neurodivergence, physical disability, chronic illness and additional educational needs, deepened her understanding of how complex and frustrating this new world can seem to parents. Her services include parent support consults, Teen coaching for confidence, anxiety, neurodivergence, Post diagnosis support for Autistic teens and adults, ADHD Parent Coaching, Supporting Neurodiverse families, Promoting Well-being and Mental Fitness and Coaching for Health & Well-being. Link to the book she has contributed to: https://www.otb.ie/shop/speech-language-therapists/books-manuals-slt/it-takes-all-kinds-of-minds/Link to her website: https://claraobyrne.ie/
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Coran Swayne is an administrative Deputy Principal in East Cork Community Special School and a lecturer in Educational Leadership and Coaching in Education at University College Cork. He is currently completing a PhD on coaching cultures in primary schools, exploring how leadership, teachers, and policy shape this work across Ireland, England, and Michigan. His article, “Cultivating Coaching Cultures in Schools: Insights from School Leaders” has been recently published in the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education (IJMCE) Link to article: 'Cultivating coaching cultures in schools: insights from school leaders'Coran Swayne and Joseph MoynihanSchool of Education, University College Cork, Cork, Irelandhttps://www.emerald.com/ijmce/article-pdf/doi/10.1108/IJMCE-01-2025-0008/10764836/ijmce-01-2025-0008en.pdfLink to Summer course Coran offers:https://summercpd.ie/courses/coaching-conversations/
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Joseph A. Moynihan, PhD is currently Director of both the Educational Leadership and the new Coaching in Education Post Graduate programmes, UCC. He is a lecturer in Education in the School of Education at University College Cork, Ireland. He is a lecturer in Initial Teacher Education on the Professional Master of Education (PME) programme and delivers modules on the Masters in Education (M.Ed.) modular programme where he has developed a series of new Educational Leadership modules to meet the significant demand for study in this area at UCC. Joseph supervises research students at Masters and PhD level. He brings us through his own leadership journey and his passion for moving forward is inspirational. Below is a link to his new course of which is is Director. https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-moynihan-phd-77015750/?originalSubdomain=iehttps://www.ucc.ie/en/ace-pdce/
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MESO is an AI-powered educational platform currently being developed with Trinity College Dublin and Enterprise Ireland. The mission of its co-founders Chris Byrne and Brighid Hennessy is to transform education by creating tools that empower teachers and educational institutions while maintaining rigorous standards and curriculum alignment. It combines AI with curriculum requirements and planning templates to help teachers plan efficiently both long and short term. It also enables the creation of assessments based on the content you’ve been covering over a period of time. Website ( platform still under construction)https://mesolab.ai/Contact the founders:Chris Byrnehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-byrne-7799041a2/[email protected] Hennessyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/brigh%C3%ADd-hennessy-124a6728b/[email protected]
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Marie Sheehan has been Deputy Principal of Coláiste an Chroí Naofa, Carraig na bhFear in Cork for 8 years and is currently on career break. She is an accredited coach with the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and is the ownerand founder of Clochán Coaching & Education Consultancy. Marie works with teams and individuals in the area of supporting teachers and school leaders to develop their sense of agency and their capacity to lead well. She talks about her own decision to take a career break, what people need to consider and the value of coaching to provide the tools and space to act with confidence and direction. http://www.mariesheehan.ie/@clochan_coaching
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Colette Crowley has just attained a principal position for September in Carriganima National School in Cork. She had been a Deputy Principal for four years and loved the school but really had a desire to progress in her career. She talks about her cancer diagnosis in college and her awareness of both grabbing and creating every opportunity that you want as life is short. Her story is inspiring.
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Angela Cummins is known to me from her Instagram account SpecialedteacherIreland. She is a special education teacher based in Dublin for over 20 years. She discusses her own challenges in school, how she became the first in her family to go to college once she secured a loan for herself while simultaneously holding down multiple jobs, what getting an adult diagnosis of dyslexia was like and finally, she kindly shares her wisdom around opening an autism class. https://angelacummins.ie/https://www.instagram.com/angela_cummins2025?igsh=cmJ5bzhwcGo1eTFl
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In this podcast, I compare notes with Emmet Ryan from St. Peter's Community School, Cork about how and why we set up a school podcast in our respective schools. We hope to inspire you to do the same! Below are links to our school website and links to our school podcasts. Emmet's school podcast:https://www.stpeters.ie/https://audio.com/st-peters-english/audio/zoom0016-lr-wedeve-1Emmet's email for advice:[email protected]'s school podcast :https://www.scoilchriostriportlaoise.ie/https://www.scoilchriostriportlaoise.ie/page/Transition-Year/48489/Index.htmlHow to set up podcast and sign up to Spotify for podcastershttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlLX2uwojfM
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Debbie O’Neill is Principal of Scoil Eoin, Crumlin, Dublin, a special school which caters for pupils with Mild General Learning disabilities as well as some students presenting with a dual diagnosis of ASD, ADHD. Schools catering for children with mild general learning disabilities are being put under pressure by the government to change their classification. She talks about the impact on her and the students and the decision to engage with the media as a Principal. https://www.into.ie/app/uploads/2025/05/Circular_Letter_0039-2025_EN_final.pdf
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Simon Lewis is the principal of Carlow Educate Together primary school, the only multidenominational primary school in the county, which he helped to set up. He is currently the only Irish primary school principal from an ethnic minority which we begin the podcast discussing. Simon’s podcast, If I were the Minister for Education, is another and one of the original education podcasts in Ireland Here we explore the Droichead Process which is currently under review.
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In this podcast, I dig deeper into The Agree to Agree project and its origins. This is a conversation we need to keep having to save the next generation from the threat that is overuse and inappropriate use of internet enabled devices. Dr Maureen Griffin is a forensic psychologist who specialized in the risk assessment of online sexual offenders. Maureen has worked with over 900 schools across Ireland, in addition to child protection agencies providing training on issues around online safety". Martin Maloney also joins me Martin was a Principal for 17 years and held that role in Clarecastle National School where The Agree to Agree Project was originally piloted in 2018. He is currently the director of the Clare Education Centre who proudly support the current project at the moment. https://www.mgmstraining.ie/agree-to-agree-projectClare Education Centrehttps://www.clareed.ie/articles-in-category-tree/10-programmes/797-agree-to-agree-project-2024-2025.htmlNavan Education Centrehttps://www.ecnavan.ie/index.php?option=com_eventbooking&view=event&id=2059Tralee Education Centrehttps://www.edcentretralee.ie/Minister for Education Helen McEntee acknowledges the project Feb 2025https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/question/2025-02-25/400/
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