Mary Connolly, who worked as director of the TARA education Centre for Travellers for 24 years, has taken up a new position as Coordinator of the VTOS centre in Dundalk. Mary has worked as Director and teacher in TARA; in addition Mary acted as a representative for Co Louth VEC on many county based committees whose focus was the Travelling community in Louth. In her work Mary promoted the principles of equality of opportunity, Diversity and heightening awareness of the Travelling community to a broader population. Through Mary’s work as Director, the adult students in the centre were encouraged and facilitated to become involved in many interagency and cross border programmes and activities. Through Mary’s vision many women from the Travelling community have gained tremendous personal growth and development alongside educational attainments which are of personal gain to the student, but which also encourages and supports younger members of extended families to see what is possible and thus be encouraged to stay engaged in education.
We wish Mary well in her new posting to which we know she brings a wealth of senior management expertise and an optimism which transcends all problems, a “why not ?” attitude which can but be an inspiration to the VTOS students in the Dundalk centre over the coming years.
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