Member Profiles

Maria Delaney

ISTJA President

Maria is an award-winning investigative reporter for Noteworthy, a crowdfunded investigative journalism platform by Journal Media, publishers of Ireland’s leading online news source TheJournal.ie.

Anthony King

ISTJA Vice President

Anthony is a freelance science journalist based in Dublin. He covers a variety of topics in chemical and biological sciences, as well as science policy, health and innovation.

Cormac Sheridan

ISTJA Treasurer

Cormac has worked as an international science journalist for over 25 years. His current focus is on biotechnology. He has previously reported on the ICT industry.

Catherine Collins

EUSJA Delegate

Catherine is a science journalist and communications professional born and raised in Ireland. For the past five years she’s called Brussels home.

Fintan Burke

Fintan is a freelance science journalist currently based in Hamburg. He has written for The Irish Times, Horizon Magazine and SciDev.net. He was previously based in Brussels and Dublin.

Sean Duke

Sean is a founding editor of Science Spin, Ireland’s first popular science magazine (2003), and a regular contributor to The Sunday Times (Ireland) and The Irish Times (health supplement).

Olive Heffernan

Olive covers climate change, oceans and sustainability, mostly for international science magazines such as Nature, Scientific American and New Scientist.

Tom Kennedy

Tom has over 40 years experience as editor, feature writer and photojournalist. He was a founding editor of Science Spin.

Anthea Lacchia

Anthea is a freelance science journalist and audio producer with a PhD in palaeontology from Trinity College Dublin and a MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College London.

Sabine Louët

Sabine is a science journalist, editor, and media entrepreneur with a keen interest in how best to use technology to deliver improved editorial coverage of science, medicine, and technology.

Conor Purcell

Conor is a science journalist and editor with a PhD in Earth Science. He is a regular contributor at The Irish Times and has also written for Nature, Scientific American and Science, amongst others.

Brian Trench

Brian has been a member of ISTJA for thirty years, and president in 1990s. Contributed to Technology Ireland, New Scientist, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Business Post, RTÉ Radio1 programmes, Irish Farmers’ Monthly, among others.