Patrick Farrell is an Irish businessman and a former chief executive of the

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Career

Farrell has been Head of Marketing and Communications and General Manager retail operations at EBS Building Society, Chief Executive at Galway's Galvia Private Hospital and General Manager at Sligo Regional Hospital. He is Chairman of

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International (Ireland) and is a board member of FOLD Ireland. Farrell was appointed as Head of Group Corporate Communications and Government Relations at Bank of Ireland in May 2013. He retired in March 2019. Farrell was the chief executive of the

. He was appointed in January 2004. As well as this he was a member of the Executive Committee of the

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, representing the interests of commercial banks across the continent. In March 2019, Farrell became chief executive of property group Irish Institutional Property.

Political office

Farrell was General Secretary of

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between 1991 and 1997. In December 1992, he was

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by the

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Albert Reynolds Albert Martin Reynolds (3 November 1932 – 21 August 2014) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Taoiseach from 1992 to 1994, Leader of Fianna Fáil from 1992 to 1994, Minister for Finance from 1988 to 1991, Minister for Indust ...

as member of the outgoing 19th Seanad, serving until the elections in January 1993 for the 20th Seanad.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Post-2008 Irish economic downturn Fianna Fáil senators Irish chief executives Irish financial businesspeople Living people Members of the 19th Seanad Nominated members of Seanad Éireann {{Ireland-senator-stub