Paddy Healy

Paddy Healy is the Immediate Past President of the Teachers' Union of Ireland (TUI) and is a serving national officer of the Union. He lives on the north side of Dublin city and hails from Clonmel, Co Tipperary.

Paddy Healy lectures in Physics at Dublin Institute of Technology, specializing in musical instrument acoustics. He has been a member of the Governing Body and of the Academic Council of the Institute. He is a member of the Council of Convocation of the National University of Ireland. He has served for a number of years on The Higher Education and Research Sub-Committee of Education International, the international representative body for teachers and lecturers. He has represented TUI on the European Trade Union Committee for Education for Education (ETUCE).

Paddy Healy is a member of the international Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD on education matters. He is a member of the Irish Science Teachers Association and a member of the Institute of Physics. Paddy is also a member of the Public Services Committee of the ICTU and of the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. As a member of the executive of Dublin Council of trade Unions he was one of the leaders of the very first march for tax equity for PAYE taxpayers.

He led a large TUI contingent on the demonstration in support of the employees of Irish Ferries and joined the Europe wide demonstration and lobby of the European Parliament against the general threat of low pay and displacement and the particular threat of marketisation of education from the proposed EU Services Directive.

He has vast experience in representing teachers and lecturers in national negotiations.