Member Profiles

Anthony King

ISTJA 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.
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Maria Delaney

ISTJA Vice President

Maria is an award-winning science and health journalist for national newspapers, specialist magazines, and radio. Her writing has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Irish Find out more

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. Find out more

Conor is a science journalist and editor with a PhD in Earth Science. He is a regular contributor of science at The Irish Times, and has also written for Scientific American, Science, New Scientist, Find out more

Catherine Collins

Catherine is a science journalist and communications professional born and raised in Ireland. For the past five years she’s called Brussels home, where she writes on a regular basis for the European Find out more

Sean Duke

Sean is a science graduate from UCD (1987) with a MA in Science, Health & Environmental Reporting from New York University (1993). He is a founding editor of Science Spin, Ireland’s first popular science Find out more

Will Goodbody

Will has been RTÉ’s Science & Technology Correspondent since 2013, leading the Irish national broadcaster’s coverage across TV, radio, online, and social media. He reports from home and abroad on Find out more

Olive Heffernan

Olive covers climate change, oceans and sustainability, mostly for international science magazines such as Nature, Scientific American and New Scientist. She has also contributed to other publications Find out more

Tom Kennedy

Tom Kennedy Tom has over 40 years experience as editor, feature writer and photojournalist. While his main focus is on the natural sciences he has produced reports on young entrepreneurs, a series on the Find out more

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. She is the Founder and CEO Find out more

Brian Trench

Brian has been a member of ISTJA for thirty years, and president in 1990s. Contributed on S&T to Technology Ireland, New Scientist, Sunday Tribune, Sunday Business Post, RTE Radio 1 programmes, Find out more

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