Staff & Executive Council

Dublin Office 

General Secretary - Owen Reidy

Owen Reidy was appointed General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions in October 2022. Before taking up this role he was the Assistant General Secretary with responsibility for Northern Ireland since 2016. A union official with over 24 years full-time experience in the Irish trade union movement he started his union career as an official with SIPTU in Mayo in 1998. During his 18 years in SIPTU, he represented and organised workers across the Republic of Ireland in the aviation, state and related agency, finance, contract cleaning and security services sectors. From 2013-16 he was a member of the SIPTU management team leading one of the Union's 5 Divisions, the Transport, Energy, Aviation and Construction (TEAC) Division. He led several significant industrial disputes during that period including the Greyhound lockout, the Luas dispute and disputes in the CIE transport group. He is a father of 2 and from Donegal.

Programme Manager │Senior Administrator - Deirdre Mannion

Senior Industrial Officer with responsibility for Trade Union Renewal - Liam Berney

Equality Officer/Developmental Officer/Global Solidarity Officer & Social Policy - David Joyce

Campaigning and Advocacy Officer - Paul Gavan 

European Officer - Gerry McCormack

Finance Consultant - Liam Daly

Health & Safety Officer - Clare Moore

Social Policy & Legislative Officer - Laura Bambrick

Social Policy & Legislative Officer - Ger Gibbons

Communications & Digital Media Officer - Tom Sheppard

Anti-Racist Workplaces Project Coordinator - David Carroll

Executive Assistant General Secretary's Office - Natalie Higgins

Administrative Staff Reception - Patricia Ellis

Administrative Staff Reception - Vivien McDonnell

Administrative Staff Finance Office - Pauline Corr

Belfast Office

Assistant General Secretary NI - Gerry Murphy

Gerry Murphy is the Assistant General Secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions previously he was Northern Secretary of the Irish Secretary of the Irish National Teachers Organization. Gerry has been a fulltime trade union official since 2011 and in that time he has held a number of roles across the trade union movement including those of chairperson of the Northern Ireland Committee of Congress and that of President of Congress. He began his professional life as a teacher working in West Belfast and before becoming a fulltime trade union official was the principal of St Mary’s PS, in Divis St Belfast.   

Equality & Social Affairs Officer - Clare Moore

Union Services Officer - Communications & Policy - John O'Farrell

Finance & Programme Manager - Gillian Allen

Union Services Officer NI - Kevin Doherty

Administrative Union Learning and Development Officer - Julie Gorman

Administrative Assistant - Tony Gallagher

Executive 2025-2027