Limerick Education Support Centre is one of a national network of 21 full-time Education Support Centres. The Centre has been operating since 1973 and has grown in strength and function since those earlier days. Limerick ESC celebrated its 50th Yr of service in 2023.
Mission Statement
To provide a collaborative space for the sharing and dissemination of knowledge and information with all education stakeholders, especially by the organisation of courses, seminars, conferences, lectures, debates, symposia and all other means subject to the approval of the committee.
To encourage fruitful links with and between the different levels of education.
To act as a resource centre which would enable education stakeholders to prepare and construct equipment and materials for use in their own schools and in addition to facilitate the display of teachers’ and pupils’ work and materials for use in their own school and to provide for a display of textbooks, materials and equipment.
To co-operate and engage with other Education Support Centres, full and part-time, so as to ensure that an effective network of Centres is established.
To plan for the development of expertise in key areas and to share such expertise throughout the Education Support Centre Network and the education system in general.
Director: Norma O'Brien
Officers
Name
Position
David Sadlier, Villiers School, North Circular Road, Limerick
Chairperson
Catherine O'Sullivan, Seconded to ACCS
Assistant Chairperson
Patrick Hickey, Parteen NS, Parteen, Co Clare
Treasurer
Brendan Burke, Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher, Co Limerick
Assistant Treasurer
Sarah Keane, St. Paul's NS, Dooradoyle, Limerick
Secretary
Annette Cregan, Mainistir NS
Assistant Secretary
Limerick ESC Management Committee
Name
From
Brendan Burke
Hazelwood College, Dromcollogher, Co Limerick
Annette Cregan
Manister National School, Croom, Co Limerick
Liam Guiney
Oola NS, Oola, Co Limerick
Rachel Hayes
John the Baptist Community School, Hospital, Co Limerick
Patrick Hickey
Parteen NS, Parteen, Co Clare
Emma Keane
Scoil Íosagáin, Sexton Street, Limerick
Sarah Keane
St Paul's NS, Dooradoyle, Limerick
Catherine O'Sullivan
Seconded to ACCS
David Sadlier
Villiers School, North Circular Road, Limerick
Eibhlín Fitzgerald
Mainistir NS
Liam Murphy
Coláiste Íde & Íosaef, Abbeyfeale, Co. Limerick
Bairbre Geraghty
Technological University of the Shannon - Midlands/MidWest
