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Maura McNally SC
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris TD has today appointed the first governing body of the new Atlantic Technological University, which will be established and open its doors on 1st April 2022.
It follows the granting of Technological University status to a consortium comprising Galway-Mayo, Sligo and Letterkenny Institutes of Technology, which entities will cease to legally exist from that date. Minister Harris has also signed the order confirming the establishment of the ATU on April 1st.
Welcoming the appointment Minister Harris said: “I am delighted to announce the appointment of Ms Maura McNally, Chair of the Bar Council of Ireland, as the chair of the first governing body of this new TU serving the West and North West.
“Ms McNally brings a vast and invaluable wealth of experience to the role which will be crucial in steering the new Technological University through its formation."
Barrister Maura McNally from Dromod, is a senior counsel and in July 2020 she was elected Chair of the Bar Council only the second woman to hold that prestigious position.
She will be ably assisted by colleagues Ms Oonagh Monaghan, founder and Managing Director of Alpha Omega Consultants Ltd and Felim McNeela, founder of Avenue Mould Solutions, as external members of the governing body, along with Ms Anne McHugh, Chief Executive of Donegal ETB, who is the nominee of all three Education and Training Boards in whose areas the TU multi-campuses are located.”
The first governing body appointed by Minister Harris is now charged with establishing and implementing the requisite election and appointment procedures to fill the remaining posts on the governing body from cohorts including undergraduate and postgraduate students, academic and non-academic staff as well as a number of additional external members.
These pivotal appointments were made following an open competition process operated by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science.
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