Irish Association - Past Presidents

Berrie O'Neill, b. Eyrecourt, County Galway, 1930. After secondary education at Wilson's Hospital, Multyfarnham, County Westmeath, and at Mountjoy School in Dublin,. he joined the Bank of Ireland at College Green, Dublin in 1948. In 1960 he moved to the Bank's main Northern Ireland office at Donegall Place, Belfast, where he managed the International Department, and later, the branch. He retired as a Regional Manager in 1990, after which he enrolled at Queen's University, Belfast, graduating with a BA. He had joined The Irish Association in the mid 1960s, with a strong belief in the need for greater north/south understanding as a pre-requisite for political stability in the island of Ireland.