Directors

A brief CV of work areas where the principal was the sole or primary participant follows:

Transformation of Irish Civil Defence from wartime to peacetime role (late seventies)

Western Development Committee which targeted the economic under-development of the west of Ireland (early eighties)

Setting up and management of Irish Farm Tax Office – 1985

Setting up and servicing Farm Tax Tribunal 1987

Managing EMS exit crisis for Irish Department of Finance Sept. 1992 – January 1993

Management of Ireland/Northern Ireland INTERREG I programme 93/94

Negotiation and management of Ireland/Northern Ireland INTERREG II programme 1994 – 1999

Negotiation and management of Ireland/Wales INTERREG II programme 1995 – 1999

Negotiation of Ireland/Northern Ireland INTERREG III Programme 2000 – 2006

Negotiation and management of Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of Ireland I 1995 – 1999

Negotiation of Special Programme for Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of Ireland II 2000 – 2006

Planning, design and operation of head office in Ireland of EU cross-border funding – European Union House, Monaghan 1996-2000

Negotiation to successful conclusion of one of the six All-Ireland bodies agreed under the Good Friday Belfast Agreement 1998 – The Special EU Programmes Body

Working with the Irish Financial Services Centre (IFSC) and the Shannon Free Airport Development Company (SFADCO) 2001 – 2002 to adapt to revised EU taxation procedures.

Special EU adviser to the Ministry of Finance (Czech Republic) on entry to the European Union 2002-2004

Organisation of Public/Private financing conference for UK embassy to Czech Republic, 2003

Sean has won awards for film documentaries (e.g. Sherkin – One Man’s Dream) and is at present researching and reviewing aspects of the Irish Neolithic.