Our Board
Chair
Genevieve Deering
Genevieve has spent over 30 years volunteering with Dunlavin Arts Festival and Kingswood Youth Choir. She has a strong interest in community arts and is ambitious for the continued promotion of the Tallaght region and all its talents.
Secretary
Paul O'Connor
Paul is a teacher, editor, project manager, and community arts organiser. He has long admired TCA as an observer and parent of participants, and is delighted to be a board member to give whatever support he can to the work.
Treasurer
Kevin Mustong
Kevin heads global presales at start-up, Corrata Mobile Cybersecurity. He joined and has volunteered with TCA since he was 16 years old, working on many projects, including Street Arts Academy and Phakama ‘Message in the Bottle’. Kevin is Congolese Irish and has lived in Tallaght for most of his life. He is a very active community volunteer.
Sarah Fitzgibbon
Sarah has been working in the field of educational drama, theatre in education and youth drama for over twenty years. She has co-produced two books of schemes for the Irish primary school curriculum and classroom. Since 2011 she has been an consultant to The Abbey Theatre bringing specifically written pieces of theatre into primary schools throughout Ireland.
Colm Doyle
Colm is an architect and director of award winning DMVF Architects. He enjoys the creative design process and the challenges posed by running a small business. He also has a keen interest in the visual arts.
Winifred Ikhine Akinyemi
Winifred is a passionate voluntary community leader in the Adamstown-Lucan area of South Dublin. Since 2009 Winifred has been involved in a community project for young people as chairperson/coordinator. She has benefited greatly from TCA through the participation of her child in their excellent projects.
JP Swaine
JP is a lifelong Tallaght resident and lives with his wife and family in the Old Bawn Area. In his current role, JP is the lead for Organisational Culture Transformation with the HSE and leads nationally on the Values in Action Program in the Health Services in Ireland. Values in Action is a behaviour based culture improvement movement in the Irish Healthcare system. JP has recently completed a Masters in Digital Transformation from UL and is a subject matter expert on Organisational Network Analysis and also holds a Bachelor of Social Science and a Masters in Social Work from UCD and a Higher Diploma in Cognitive Psychotherapy from TCD. He is a health, people and culture sector professional with a track record in personal, social and organisational change.
JP has a diverse range of professional experiences. JP’s professional training is in Social Work and Cognitive Psychotherapy and he has worked in related roles for many years in the Irish Community Mental Health Services. During this time he also developed a series of change projects and social innovations through his development of the social enterprise First Fortnight, Irelands Mental Health Arts Charity. Parallel to all of this JP is also a skilled media relations and political communications professional and recently worked as a senior press officer for the Irish Health Services.
Proud to be funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and South Dublin County Council