St Patrick's Day Breakfast

Speakers

Jerry O'Donovan

Jerry is the eighth Consul General of Ireland to Scotland. Prior to taking up duty at the Consulate, he was the Chargé d'affaires of the Irish Embassy to Denmark in 2022 and 2023. He has previously served in Dublin as Head of Press Relations for the Department of Foreign Affairs and began his time in the Department as a desk officer in the Justice & Security unit in Anglo-Irish Division. Jerry has also served abroad in Ireland's Embassies to Norway and Argentina and as the Joint-Head of the British Irish Council Secretariat where he spent three very enjoyable years based in Edinburgh. The Secretariat is staffed by civil servants on secondment from the governments of Ireland, the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Jerry is a graduate of UCC where he did a degree in European Commerce & French and has also completed a Masters in Public Administration with the IPA in the Whitaker School of Government and Management at UCD. He is also a proud native of West Cork.