Pat Fallon of IMPACT’s Sligo branch was elected as union president at last week’s biennial delegate conference in Killarney. Delegates also elected eight other officers to the union's Central Executive Committee.

The conference also elected eight other officers to the Central Executive Committee, which is the union’s most senior decision-making body after the conference itself.

The newly elected officers are:

• Senior vice president: Paddy Quinn (CE Supervisors’ branch).
• Vice president: Michael Barry (Cork branch).
• Vice president: Margaret Coughlan (Wicklow Health branch).
• Vice president: Paul O’Halloran (Dublin City branch).
• Honorary secretary: Alan Duffy (Civil Service No.1 branch).
• Honorary treasurer: Kevin O’Malley (Kerry branch).
• Honorary equal opportunities officer: Patricia Fanning (SNA North Dublin-North Leinster branch).
• Honorary health and safety officer: Mark Wynne (Municipal Employees’ branch).

The CEC is made up of the nine officers (elected at the union’s biennial delegate conference), representatives of each of the union’s six divisions (elected at the divisional conferences), and the immediate past president. A small number of senior staff attend CEC meetings, but they are not allowed to vote.