About the Board

The current Board of Directors is made up of people with a range of important skills and experience: from finance and funding experience, management experience, experience on other boards (paid and voluntary), and in technology. The board’s vision for the centre is to make the Glens Centre an indispensable part of the cultural life of the North West.

 

Current Board Members

Noirin Clancy - Chair

Nóirin Clancy, a native of Glenfarne, Co Leitrim, has been working in the voluntary and community sector for over 25 years. Her work has mainly focused on community development, equality and women’s human rights at national and international levels. Noirin is currently working in the disability sector. In a voluntary capacity she is actively involved in a number of organisations which include 50:50 North West, an advocacy group campaigning for equal representation in politics and the Holey Soles Hill Walking Group.

Phil Sun/Heraghty – Secretary

Phillina, a Californian native living in Ireland for the last 16 years, has an MA in Culture and Colonialism and a PhD in Irish Visual Culture and Utopian Studies from National University of Ireland, Galway. 

Rossa Ó Snodaigh – Oifigeach Gaeilge

Rossa Ó Snodaigh is a founder member of the internationaly reknowned group Kíla, he’s also an author of four books, played intercounty hurling for Liatroim, directed the stage and RTÉ radio play Líon Mo Bhearna and initiated and the founding of Gaelscoil Chluainín and Aonad Loch Gile.

Brenda McMullan

Brenda Mc Mullan is Head Teacher at Loughan House Open Prison in Blacklion in Cavan working for Cavan Monaghan Education & Training Board (CMETB). The role entails:

1. Providing a high quality broad and flexible education programme designed to meet the needs of residents as they prepare to return to the community.

2. Providing a range of cultural experiences and opportunities that facilitates lifelong learning while at the same time helping persons in custody to respond to their sentence through personal development and positive renewal.

3. Events and projects are facilitated in the community: one such collaboration led to the performance of a bespoke play by Seamus O’Rourke for 11 residents which was performed at the Glens in 2017.

4. The Artists & Writers in Prison Scheme is availed of regularly and provides high quality tuition from established artists and writers working with teachers and students on pre-approved projects. Many of these projects have been creatively installed throughout the campus and impact positively on residents, staff and visitors in the normalization of the prison environment.

Treasa Nealon

Treasa is a playwright and theatre-maker based in Leitrim. She is co-founder of The Rabbit's Riot Theatre Company. Her most recent work includes a rehearsed reading of her short play ‘As We Know It’ at the INK Festival in Suffolk and a commissioned short play 'The First To Go' for AboutFACE Theatre Company's NEWvember New Playwriting Festival in the Civic,Tallaght.
She was a participant of Irish Theatre Institute’s Six in the Virtual Attic Artists Supports Programme for 2023/24.

James Gilmartin

A native of Manorhamilton, is an Independent Councillor on Leitrim County Council. A former Agricultural Science teacher, James is an active member of Leitrim Sustainable Agricultural Group and currently a national Farming for Nature Ambassador.

Caoimhe McSharry

Works in the HSE and is also on the Board of Management of Gaelscoil Chluainín.