Séafra Ó Faoláin Email & Phone Number

Ireland

• My research brief covered a variety of areas, including foreign affairs, tax, finance, and trade, with a climate focus in all areas. My main responsibility was to prepare briefing notes and speeches for national.
• Writing speeches and speaking notes that are used in the national parliament on a weekly basis;
• Drafted Bills and amendments to Bills which entered the legislative process;
• Drafted, with internal and external stakeholder input, party submissions to public consultations, such as, the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, White Paper on Enterprise Policy, Co-operative Societies.
• Led the drafting of party position papers on policies such as Public Banking, International Trade Agreements, Co-operative Societies;
• Costed policy proposals for budgets, some of which were implemented, and for party manifesto.

• I was elected in 2019 as one of the youngest local politicians in the country, at 22. My main responsibility was to solve issues for constituents and other stakeholders, which could be through negotiating an annual.
• Accelerated climate action at a local level by working alongside officials and other Councillors, to achieve the upgrade of public lighting, increased funding for biodiversity, and improved planning standards;
• Garnered national print and radio media coverage, including a front-page article in the Irish Times, and speaking on a prime-time debate on Newstalk;
• Successfully secured support for greater active mobility interventions as a response to COVID-19;
• Secured a commitment to a ‘Women and Girls’ Safety Audit’, UN Habitat’s framework for creating safer public spaces for women and girls.

County Dublin, Ireland

- General Account Executive duties: Oireachtas and media monitoring, writing to politicians and arranging meetings for clients, coordinate interviews with journalists, compiling media/regulatory/political monitoring notes, pitching stories to journalists, writing and sending press releases, drafting, researching and proofing;- Account Lead for one client.

County Dublin, Ireland

I interned at Hume Brophy for three months, in both the Public Affairs and Communications/PR divisions of the Dublin office. My main tasks were:- Media monitoring (print, online, radio and television); - Preparing daily, weekly and fortnightly political/regulatory/media updates for clients;- Drafting, sending and following up on press releases to national.

Master'S Degree, Public Policy

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy, Political Science, Economics And Sociology, | Freshman Average: 2:1; Foundation Scholarship Examinations: 67

Activities and Societies: Foundation Scholarship Examinations // Ordinary Committee Member of the Society for International Affairs.

Erasmus, Political Science And Economics, Upper Second Class Honours

Activities and Societies: Kot Erasmus: Part of a live-together society to welcome other Erasmus students and organise social, cultural and.

High School, Leaving Certificate: 600/625

Activities and Societies: Senior Basketball Team (2011-2014), Captain (2013-2014) // Commerce and Economics Society Committee Member //.