Ms. Sharon Foley has been appointed CEO of the Irish Hospice Foundation. She succeeds Mr. Eugene Murray, who has retired.
Ms. Foley holds a Bachelor’s degree in nutrition, a Masters’ degree in nutrition research from Trinity College, Dublin and a Masters’ in Health Promotion from NUI, Galway.
In 2006, she established a strategy management consultancy, One2One Solutions, through which she has advised voluntary and State agencies for the past five years.
She was the first CEO of the Crisis Pregnancy Agency and was Director of Health Promotion for the former East Coast Area Health Board and the former Midlands Health Board.
The Irish Hospice Foundation is a national charity which promotes the hospice philosophy and the development of hospice care in Ireland.