As part of the DCU Women in Leadership initiative, Project 50/50, Eileen Randles IBVM has been chosen as having made an outstanding contribution to Irish education. In her honour, Lecture Theatre E223 was named as the Eileen Randles Lecture Theatre at a most moving ceremony on 7 November 2023.
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• Daire Keogh, President, DCU; Mgr Dan O’ Connor; Marie Celine Clegg IBVM; Barbara Murphy IBVM, Province Leader; Anne Looney, Executive Dean, Institute of Education, DCU; Members of the String Quartet, Loreto College, St Stephen’s Green
• Cross-section of attendees at ceremony
• Tom Cunningham; Anne Marie Cunningham; Barbara Murphy IBVM; Anne Finnegan: Denis Harrington; Lucy Nugent (Eileen’s nieces and nephews with Barbara Murphy IBVM)
• Daire Keogh (President, DCU; Mgr Dan O Connor; Barbara Murphy IBVM; Archbishop Dermot Farrell; Professor Anne Looney
• Tom Cunningham; Anne Marie Cunningham; Lucy Nugent; Anne Finnegan; Denis Harrington
• Aine Hyland, Emeritus Professor of Education at UCC; Eilis Humphreys, CEO of APTCS;
• Rionach Donlon IBVM
• Marie Céline Clegg IBVM; Dr Elaine McDonald, DCU; Professor Anne Looney, Executive Dean, Institute of Education, DCU.
• Michael Finnegan (Eileen’s grand-nephew and member of Oide, Support Service for Teachers and School Leaders); Aine Hyland, Emeritus Professor of Education at DCU; Marie Céline Clegg IBVM; Brian O Doherty, IPPN.
• John McHugh, Principal, Ard Scoil Ris; Kathleen Fitzpatrick IBVM; Mary Delahunty IBVM; Dr Elaine McDonald, DCU; Ann O Donoghue IBVM; Mary O Connor IBVM; Barbara Murphy IBVM; Dr P.J. Sexton, DCU; Chris Goodman IBVM; Marie Céline Clegg IBVM.
• Brede Quirke IBVM; Noelle Corscadden IBVM; Florence Conroy (Eileen’s secretary and close friend for 32 years)
• Dr Ken Fennelly, Board of Education, Church of Ireland; Mary Delahunty IBVM
• Rev Professor Anne Lodge, Church of Ireland Centre, DCU; Eileen Salmon, Board of Directors, Loreto Education Trust; Phil Murphy IBVM.
• Elaine Troy IBVM; Catherine Murphy (Denise Harvey’s sister); Chris Goodman IBVM
• Anne O Dwyer IBVM and Barbara Murphy IBVM
