IEC2012 live – Justin Kilcullen

by | Jun 14, 2012 | Justice Archive, Trócaire, ZZ_All

iCatholic.ie interviews at IEC2012

Monday 11th – Friday 15th June 2012, 12.00 – 12.30 GMT

iCatholic.ie did five programmes at IEC2012 that were streamed live on the internet, Monday to Friday from 12 noon to 12.30pm. The interviews took place on the balcony of the Main Exhibition Hall in the RDS (also known as Hall 1). The programme format consisted of interviewing three guests interspersed with some Congress News. The guests were a cross‐section of the speakers at the Congress along with some of the chief organisers.  The full workshops of most of our guests will also be available on iCatholic.ie

The interviews were conducted by Ms Brenda Drumm (working in a personal capacity) from the Catholic Communications Office (CCO) of the Irish Bishops Conference which is based in Maynooth. Brenda also hosts (again working in a personal capacity) her own radio programme on a local radio station (KFM) in Kildare. The camera crew consisted of Irish Dominicans and other Congress volunteers, headed up by Br Luuk Dominiek Jansen OP who designed the Congress app. One of the features of that app is that it takes Congress video content from iCatholic.ie

IEC2012 live programmes

To access all these videos, you view under author – www.iCatholic.ie/iec2012-live/

Justin Kilcullen

A Dubliner, Justin Kilcullen qualified as an architect from University College Dublin. Having worked as a volunteer in Tanzania and Cambodia Justin joined Trócaire as Africa programme officer in 1981. He served as the organisation’s representative in Laos from 1988 until 1992. In March 1993 he was appointed Director.

In recent years he has been a member of the Irish Government established Hunger Task Force and is currently a member of the National Famine Commemoration Committee. He is a former president of CIDSE, the international working group of Lenten Campaign organisations in Europe and Canada. He recently completed a six year term as president of Concord, the confederation of European development NGOs, representing over two thousand such organisations across the European Union.

Justin’s work brings him to many of the world’s poorest countries where he has the opportunity to meet with communities struggling daily to overcome poverty and oppression. He is an articulate advocate for global justice, both in Ireland and in international forums. Now living in Shankill, County Dublin, Justin Kilcullen is married to Róisín O Boyle. They have three adult children.