Rex Betar is embodied courage. Born premature with immense physical challenges are enough to limit many. Rex also faced huge environmental challenges. He taught himself to walk at age 12 deying doctors. Had a sucessful amaterur wrestling career

Teresa Keating

Feb 6th, 2020 43m

Teresa Keating loved to run when growing up in Dublin and has harnessed that energy in the Irish Australian community. Everyone who is anyone knows Teresa with long tenures and immense contribution on the Lansdowne Club Board, as Executive of t

Ellen Gunning

Feb 6th, 2020 48m 34s

Ellen Gunning must run on rocket fuel. She talks a mile a minute as she tells stories, writes books, runs a PR agency and teaches it. Ellen understands the importance of effective communication. 25 years earns a lot of experience, stories and E

Damian Ennis

Feb 6th, 2020 48m 43s

Damian Ennis trained as an architect and is now working as a large infrastructure project manageer. It’s Damian’s curiosity of worlds he yet doesn’t know that is so engaging. He hails from an innovative town in County Limerick and has applied t

Mary Reynolds

Feb 6th, 2020 1h

Not everyone has had a film made about their life but that’s just for starters. Mary was the youngest person to gold at the Chelsea Flower Show and designs wonderful gardens. She wrote a book called Garden Awakening to encourage us into convers

Alan Costello

Aug 29th, 2019 44m 4s

Alan Costello holds the rare honour of representing both Mayo and Sligo at All levels of Intercounty football before taking a look at life Down Under and has not looked back up to the Northern Hemisphere since. After two weeks in construction h

Fadi Chalouhy

Aug 29th, 2019 1h 45m

Fadi Chalouhy shared the status of those born out of wedlock before 1987 in Ireland. He was stateless. A few months ago when he became the first stateless person to be granted Permanent Residency in Australia. Globally more than 12 million peop

Eamon Eastwood

Aug 22nd, 2019 33m 14s

Eamon Eastwood my co-founder of PatChats is the founder of TasteIreland. TasteIreland was born to fulfill the Irish food homesickness in Australia. It started with Taytos and has grown to a coterie of 100 brand and stocked in 250+ Woolworth sto

Conor Lyne

Aug 22nd, 2019 43m 5s

Conor Lyne is our youngest speaker thus far and also our first and likely only skier :-) given Ireland and skiing rarely happen in the same sentence. Born in the UK to Irish parents and raised in Utah (hence the skiing). His childhood was spent

Claire McCarthy

Aug 22nd, 2019 29m 35s

Claire Mc Carthy is a fundraiser for a children's charity. At the time of the talk she was working at Bear Cottage a beautiful charity in Manly, Sydney that takes care of the child and entire family of children in palliative care. Tragic storie

Ciaran Cannon

Jul 31st, 2019 21m 22s

Ciaran Cannon has been in public life since 2004. He is the Fine Gael TD for Galway was chosen as one of Galway people of the year in 2002. He holds the new appointment of Minister for the Diaspora and International Development which sits in th

Irish Diaspora Link Conference 2019 - Part 4

Jul 25th, 2019 28m 56s

Fostering Irish Culture - Martin Mc Evoy, Professor Ronan McDonald, Martha McEvoy, Ned Sheehy

Irish Diaspora Link Conference 2019 - Part 3

Jul 25th, 2019 21m 56s

Galvanising community to have interests and concerns represented - Julien O'Connell, Marty Kavanagh

Irish Diaspora Link Conference 2019 - Part 2

Jul 25th, 2019 29m 22s

Building Ireland's Reputation - Carl Walsh, Helen Waldron and Philip O'Sullivan

Irish Diaspora Link Conference 2019 - Part 1

Jul 25th, 2019 38m 2s

Experience of Being Irish Overseas - Billy Cantwell and Fidelma Breen

Billy Cantwell

Jun 12th, 2019 55m 6s

Billy Cantwell was just 23 when he founded the Irish Echo, Australia’s Irish newspaper. The masthead celebrates 30 years in print this year. Over three decades, the Meath-born father-of-three has borne witness to massive changes in the Australi