TEDxMountjoyPrison

Speakers

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• Brendan O'Connell

  Psychologist

• Caroline Gardner

  Co-Founder Quality Matters

• Deirdre Healy

  Associate Professor

• Dr Anne Costelloe

  Head Teacher Mountjoy Prison

• Eddie Mullins

  Governor Mountjoy Prison

  Eddie joined the Irish Prison Service in 1991 and has been stationed at a number of institutions. He was promoted to Industrial Supervisor in 1999 and to assistant governor in 2007, assigned to The Midlands prison with specific responsibility for HR. In 2014, Eddie was promoted to Governor 3 and assigned to Loughan House, an open centre. He was promoted to Governor 2 and assigned to Mountjoy Prison in 2017. Eddie is passionate about prisoner progression and staff engagement. While stationed at Loughan House, he introduced the first social enterprise project in the IPS and, at Mountjoy, he has overseen the rebranding of Mountjoy West to what is now the Progression Unit; and led Mountjoy to achieve the Ibec KeepWell Mark, the first prison in Ireland to do so. Eddie holds a Msc in Business Practice with the Irish Management Institute, is member of the Mediators Institute of Ireland, and is a big sports fan, particularly of GAA. He is married and has three adult children.

• Lisa Anderson

  Senior Probation Officer

• Philly McMahon

  Author, Businessman, Footballer

  Philly is an author, businessman and six times All-Ireland Gaelic Football medal-winner, winning his first All-Ireland medal in 2011. He has been a member of the Dublin Football Panel since 2010. He is passionate about sport and wellbeing and owns a number of companies associated with sport and nutrition. His first book, ‘The Choice’, is a bestseller, depicting in stark terms the impact of drug addiction on families in Ireland. Philly is a committed advocate for the decriminalisation of drug use. He holds a degree in Education and Training.

• Wayne Hart

  ddd

• Wayne Harte

  Irish Probation Service