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Academy President Sean Finlay, accompanied by Tom Leahy Academy Special Advisor/Director & Past President met Aoife McLysaght to introduce the Academy.

News Article The Irish Academy of Engineering (IAE) welcomed nine new Fellows to membership of the Academy at a conferring ceremony held on 13th June 2025. A short citation was read out by Academy Honorary Secretary Joe Harford and parchments were presented by Academy President Sean Finlay. Present at the ceremony were the full Executive […]

Chair of the NI Region Jonathan Hegan welcomed attendees to a meeting of the NI Region and a site visit kindly arranged by Paddy Larkin FIAE Chief Executive of Mutual Energy to the Moyle Interconnector.

Sean Finlay IAE, Minister Jack Chambers TD, Tim Murnane ACEI, Kathryn Meghen RIAI. Academy President Sean Finlay and Special Advisor Tom Leahy were invited guests at the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) annual conference held in Dublin on 5th June 2025. The theme of the conference was Quantum Leap: Accelerating Ireland’s infrastructure and […]

As per the Programme for Government, a new Infrastructure Division has been created within the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform to look at national critical economic infrastructure delivery. The workplan of the division will include identifying barriers to efficient delivery of key infrastructure in the transport network, electricity and water sectors and will produce […]

Academy President Elect Sean Finlay was elected as President of the Academy 2025-2026

Academy President Elect Sean Finlay and Special Advisor & Past President Tom Leahy were invited guests at the MacGill Meet-up on 29th April in Notre Dame Dublin on Merrion Square.

Academy President Seamus McKeague and President Elect Sean Finlay were invited guests at the Association of Consulting Engineers of Ireland (ACEI) 2025 Engineering Excellence Awards. Anne Marie Conibear, ACEI President and Academy Fellow presented certificates on Friday, 28 March to the award winners at a gala dinner in the Intercontinental Hotel, Dublin.  Kevin Rudden, CEO […]

IAE President Seamus McKeague and past President Tom Leahy meet Academy Fellow James (Jimmy) Sheehan to discuss his remarkable career.