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About Alice Leahy

Alice Leahy is Director of Services of the Alice Leahy Trust. She was Co-Founder & Director of TRUST from 1975 - December 2015. The Alice Leahy Trust remains a non-judgemental befriending social and health service for people who are homeless. Alice produced with two others The Homeless Experience a training module she co-facilitated for voluntary/community and statutory groups in Dublin. Alice is also an honorary member of Rotary Club Dublin and was awarded a Paul Harris Fellowship from The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. Alice - a former nurse / midwife - with hospital consultants set up the first Intensive Care Unit of its type in Ireland at the request of the Medical Board at the then Royal City of Dublin Hospital in Baggot Street. Alice is a former human Rights Commissioner and former chairperson of the Sentence Review Group for prisoners a contributor to public policy writer commentator and lecturer. Currently nominated for an international human rights award. CATHERINE CLEARY is a journalist author and broadcaster. She began her career as a reporter with The Irish Times in 1994 and became security correspondent of The Sunday Tribune. She met Alice Leahy in the 1990s while reporting on social issues around crime and poverty. Catherine''s publications include: Life Sentence Murder Victims and their Families (2004) and A Month of Somedays How One Woman made the most of Now (2012). She co-wrote Counter Culture The Sheridans'' Guide to Cheese in 2015. She also co-wrote and presented the RTE radio series History on a Plate with historian Juliana Adelman. She has been writing a weekly restaurant review in The Irish Times for the past seven years.