West region
About
About the region
The West Region has some of the largest infrastructure projects currently underway in Ireland, including:
- New motorways from Galway to Limerick and Athlone
- A new oil terminal
- Galway Harbour Enterprise Park
- The Shell Corrib gas pipeline
- Phase 1 of the Western Rail Corridor from Ennis to Athenry
We represent many sectors of the industry, including third level education, local authorities, central government, contractors, companies, researchers and many more.
The region is a centre of excellence for biomedical engineering, with significant research and development ongoing at private companies, particularly around Galway, and at third-level institutions including:
- National University of Ireland, Galway
- Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
- The Irish Marine Institute in Oranmore, Galway
Our network provides members with a professional and social network for learning and developing potential business opportunities.
As we encompass part of the Gaeltacht region of Galway and Mayo, we particularly welcome participation ‘as Gaeilge’. For the past 20 years, a ‘Leacht as Gaeilge’ has been a cornerstone of our events calendar.
Who can join?
- Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
- Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
- Local government and semi-state organisation workers involved in engineering
- Academic researchers, lecturers and students
How to join
If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Galway, Mayo or Roscommon when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with this network.
If your correspondence address is outside these 3 counties, you can still join our network through the Members Area.
It is free to join our network. Once you register as a member of a network, you can choose to:
- receive email updates on all our events
- use our network's discussion forum
- post comments on articles written by other network members
- comment on our network blog
- send messages to other members of our network
Events
West Region network members receive invitations to a wide variety of educational and social events throughout the year, including:
- CPD-approved evening seminars and lectures delivered by experts across a broad range of engineering topics
- a CPD-approved evening course run by the network each February
- site visits to regional projects of interest
- up to 8 golf outings per year in clubs throughout the region
- an annual dinner and annual table quiz
Contacts
Chairman
- Muredach Tuffy
- Mayo County Council
- Aras an Contae
- Castlebar
- Co. Mayo
- Tel: 096 76100
- Mob: 087 9639900
- Email: mtuffy@mayococo.ie
Vice-Chairman & Council Representative
- Padraic O'Donoghue
- Civil Engineering
- NUI
- Galway
- Tel: 091 492214
- Email: padraic.odonoghue@nuigalway.ie
Secretary
- Christy O’Sullivan
- Chartered Engineer
- RPS Consulting Engineers
- Lyrr Building
- IDA Business & Technology Park
- Mervue
- Galway
- Tel:091 400200
- Mob: 086 820 6087
- Email: christy.osullivan@rpsgroup.com
Treasurer
- Morgan McGrath
- HGL O'Connor
- Woodquay Court
- Woodquay
- Galway
- Tel: 091 563191
- Email: morgan.mcgrath@hgloc.ie
Liaison Committee Rep
- Louise Hannon
- Roughan & O'Donovan Consulting Engineers
- Galway Business Park
- Dangan
- Galway
- Tel: 091 580216
- Mob: 087 2354308
- Email: lhannon@rod.ie
Focal Centre Administrator
- Ena Brophy
- Room 211, Arts/Science Building
- Main Concourse, NUI, Galway
- Tel: 091-586600
- Fax: 091-586601
- Email: west@engineersireland.ie
- Opening hours: 2pm - 4.45pm Monday - Friday
Events
Details of our autumn and winter programme of events will be posted here in September.
Papers
EirGrid: Helping power Ireland into the future
By Dermot Byrne, Chief Executive, EirGrid
About EirGrid
- Ireland’s Independent Transmission System Operator and operator of the Wholesale Power Market
- Commercial state-owned company
- Separate from all parties in the electricity market
- Established by statute as TSO and licensed by Commission for Energy Regulation
- Annual turnover of approximately €300m
Download EirGrid Helping power Ireland into the future (PDF 2.10 MB)
Understanding brain blood flow: Insights from spaceflight and systems engineering
Jorge M. Serrador, Ph.D
SFI Walton Visiting Professor, Dept of Electronic Engineering, National University of Ireland, Galway
Dept of Neurology, Harvard Medical School
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA
Download Understanding Brain Blood Flow: Insights from Spaceflight & Systems Engineering (PDF 2.31 mb)