Catherine Kavanagh – President (2011-2014)
Department of Philosophy
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Rd.
Limerick
Telephone: (061) 204904
Email: catherine.kavanagh@mic.ul.ie
Catherine Kavanagh lectures in Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick). She received her B.A. and M. Phil. from UCD and her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. She was formerly IRCHSS Fellow in the School of Classics at UCD, and has worked at the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, Florence, funded by the Italian Ministero degli Affari Esteri. She has published work on several aspects of early medieval philosophy, and is currently working on the impact of the Byzantine tradition on Eriugena’s thought.
Fiachra Long - Vice-President (2009-2012)
Department of Education, University College Cork, Cork
Telephone: (021) 490 2262
Email: FLong@education.ucc.ie
Fiachra Long is a Lecturer in the Philosophy of Education at UCC. He holds degrees from UCD and Louvain-la-Neuve where he completed a philosophy doctorate on Augustinian influences on Maurice Blondel. He publishes in the philosophy of education, philosophy and theology and has published Maurice Blondel: The Idealist Illusion (2000) and, as editor, Theology in the University (1997).
Susan Gottlöber - Treasurer (2011-2014)
Department of Philosophy
National University of Ireland
Maynooth
Co. Kildare
Email: susan.gottlober@nuim.ie
Susan Gottlöber is a Lecturer in the Dept of Philosophy, NUI Maynooth. She carried out her Doctoral Studies at the Chair of Philosophy of Religions and Religious Studies, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany. In TU Dresden she was assistant lecturer, holding the chair of Philosophy of Religions and Religious Studies, and in 2009 submitted her PhD Dissertation: “Das Prinzip der Relationalität: Nicolaus Cusanus’ ontologisches Erkenntnismodell als epistemische Begründung eines Toleranzkonzeptes und Fundament eines interreligiösen Diskurses” (viva voce Jan 2010). Since 2009 she has been co-editor of the circular “Philosophy of Religions. Discourses and Orientations” and since 2010 contract lecturer, Philosophy Department, NUI Maynooth
Fr. Gavan Jennings – Hon. Secretary (2009-2012)
10 Hume Street, Dublin 2.
Telephone: (01) 6767 420
Email: gavjennings@gmail.com
Fr. Gavan Jennings did his MA on Berkeley in University College Dublin and PhD on Aristotle in the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, Rome. He gives courses on Thomistic Philosophy and Theology.
Julia Hynes – Committee member (2009-2012)
Queens University Belfast
Julia Hynes completed her PhD in Philosophical Medical Ethics at the Queens University of Belfast in 2008. She is currently lecturing in bioethics for the Priory Institute in Dublin and holds the position of teaching assistant at QUB and St.Malachy’s Diocesan Seminary, Belfast. She sits on the Clinical Ethics Committee for the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust as a lay member.
Chris Lawn – Committee member (2012-2014)
Department of Philosophy
Mary Immaculate College
South Circular Rd.
Limerick
Telephone: (061) 204904
Email: chris.lawn@mic.ul.ie
Chris Lawn has been Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, UK, Lecturer in Philosophy, Centre for Philosophy, Milltown Institute for Theology & Philosophy, Dublin and Associate Lecturer in the Arts, The Open University. He is currently the Course Director for the MA in Philosophy & Literature and for the MA in Humanities in Mary Immaculate College, Limerick.
Mary Shanahan – Committee member (2012-2014)
Mater Dei Institute of Education and St. Patrick’s College.
Drumcondra 
Mary Shanahan currently teaches philosophy and religious education at Mater Dei Institute of Education and St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra. She is currently completing her PhD, entitled ‘The Wisdom Love at the Service of Love: Mediated Transcendence in Plato and Levinas’, at the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. Mary is also a lay member of the Council for Justice and Peace, Irish Catholic Bishops’ Conference.