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The Future of Disability Services - Week 3 - Clare FM

By Pat Flynn · Clare FM · 23 September 2026

The Future of Disability Services - Week 3 - The Future of Disability Services % Clare FM

Welcome to this week’s episode of The Future of Disability Services on Clare FM.

Trish McNamara is from Ennistymon in North Clare and was educated in the local Convent of Mercy.

She has always loved dogs and horses and did a lot of horse riding up to early 20s.

Trish always wanted to be a vet but that didn’t work out after school pursued the business route.

Because she liked people and speaking with people it seemed to be a natural progression for Trish that she would go into the hospitality industry.

She studied hotel management and business studies in the GMIT in Galway and thereafter following career in hospitality that spanned 25 years.

At the age of 29, while working as a conference and banqueting manager for a hotel in Wexford that her life changed…

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Reporting by Pat Flynn for Clare FM, funded by the News Reporting Scheme. Republished by News Room under the scheme’s reuse permission.

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