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IPU Committees

Committees are elected by the members of their region every two years. As well as Regional Committees, the IPU has four national committees:

  • Executive Committee
    The Executive Committee has overall responsibility for all aspects of policy and management of the Union. The other national committees report to the Executive Committee.
  • Pharmacy Contractors’ Committee (PCC)
    The PCC is responsible for engaging and negotiating with the Health Service Executive on the terms and agreements of the pharmacy contract. Individual pharmacists hold contracts with the HSE for the delivery of the community drugs schemes on behalf of the State. The PCC oversees the implementation of programmes and initiatives that are developed under the terms of the contract.
  • Community Pharmacy Committee (CPC)
    The CPC works to serve and support community pharmacists in their practices and to promote and expand their role as pharmacists by continually developing professional, ethical, business and technological ideals and standards. This committee is responsible for the promotion and development of the profession, the development of the business policy, training and IT agenda.
  • Employee Pharmacists’ Committee (EPC)
    The EPC represents the growing number of community pharmacy employees in Ireland. Employee pharmacists also elect representatives onto the Executive Committee and the Community Pharmacy Committee. The mission of the EPC is “to foster an active and dynamic Employee Pharmacists’ Committee which actively promotes the professional and economic interests of employee pharmacists and constructively engages with the other Committees of the Union and with our stakeholders.”

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Darragh O’Loughlin, President

Darragh O’Loughlin was elected President to the Union by the Executive Committee on 24 April 2010. Darragh was formerly Vice-President and Honorary Treasurer of the Union and has been a member of the Union’s Executive Committee since 2002. He is also a member of the Council of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. He is a Galway pharmacist and qualified from Trinity College Dublin in 1993.

Darragh also has a Diploma in Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations from Galway Business School. He has worked in Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and in Crumlin Children’s Hospital before deciding to pursue a career in community pharmacy. Darragh has a pharmacy in Tuam, Galway.

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Rory O'Donnell, Vice-President 

Rory O'Donnell was elected Vice-President of the Union by the Executive Committee on 24 April 2010. Rory was formerly Vice Chairperson of the Community Pharmacy Committee and has served on the Union's Executive and Pharmacy Contractors' Committees in the past.

He is a native of Dungloe and is the proprietor of pharmacies in Derrybeg and Letterkenny Co. Donegal.

Rory graduated from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen in 1990 with a BSc(Hons)Pharm. He also holds a Bachelors degree in Natural Science from Trinity College Dublin.

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Kathy Maher, Treasurer

Kathy Maher was elected as Honorary Treasurer to the Union by the Executive Committee on 24 April 2010. Kathy is also the North Eastern Regional Representative on the Executive Committee.

Kathy graduated from Pharmacy in Queen’s University, Belfast in 1996. After pre-registration she worked in Dublin, then in 2000 moved to Duleek Pharmacy, which she bought in 2005.

She has been involved with the Union since 2002, having experience on all of the Committees. She has been on the Pharmacy Contractors' Committee since 2007. She is a tutor with the Irish Centre for Continuing Pharmaceutical Education.

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