Diarmuid O'Callaghan

A unique new Tertiary Degree route into the BSc (Hons) in Intellectual Disability Nursing at DkIT is launching in September 2025 - starting locally in @ofidundalk. Spend Yr1 studying in OFI then progress to DkIT to undertake your 4Yr BSc (Hons) in Intellectual Disability Nursing

Five siblings, one college: The Ponik family’s journey through Dundalk IT - Louth Live share.google/Bno83dBLSuLFFh…

Applications for the DELTA Award close on 2 July. Recognising team-based excellence at national level in teaching, learning and assessment across Irish higher education. Watch our short video guide: teachingandlearning.ie/awards/delta-a…

Regretfully, I missed this event today in @NursingDkit I hear it was a great success. Our fantastic staff succeeded in fixing many teddy bears for students of a local primary school, including a teddy bear with a broken heart! Never underestimate the impact of educators 👏👏👏

Great news in #Louth today ⬇️⬇️

Minister @lawlessj today launched the @MaynoothUni -@DkIT_ie Regional Graduate Academy, which will offer structured PhD programmes supervised by DkIT staff, with doctoral students jointly registered at both institutions and receiving their degree from Maynooth University.

After 18 months of collaborative and collegiate work, we were delighted to welcome the Minister for Further and Higher Education to campus today to launch the MU DkIT Regional Graduate Academy

Celebrating International Nurses and Midwives day with Rachel Kenna, Chief Nursing Officer. Student Nurses, Roisin Gough, Jennifer Wall, Abdiftah Suraya and Student Midwife, Clodagh Vaughan with our colleague Helen Byrne.

Leadership for large-scale change: distinctive challenges, emerging responses: some reflections. Last week, I got the opportunity to join a learning community of 70 people from across the globe - leading social innovators, business leaders, thought leaders and philanthropists - to consider leadership for large scale change. I was the guest of @AspenInstitute and the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance. In this final piece about the event, I have identified five areas where we might need to take action for leadership for large scale change: 1)Flip our thinking about alignment/shared purpose being a prerequisite for leading large scale change Often, our approach to leadership in large scale change is to bring a diverse group of leaders together and seek to build alignment around shared goals as a starting point for change. It forces leaders into “shared” positions before they are ready and creates high co-ordination costs. If we spent less energy trying to align people to the change, and instead supported leaders to build their capacity to lead within it through a collective learning process: •alignment would become an outcome, not a starting condition •the change would be more impactful and sustainable. 2)Build better methods for leadership collaboration for large scale change When we talk about supporting individual leaders to advance their own agenda more effectively, that doesn’t mean leaving each leader to do their own thing. Rather, there is a discipline and method to building a cohort that nurtures individual leaders and builds collective knowledge and alignment. There is a need for more intentional design in partnership models and methods in leading large scale change. 3)Develop effective governance for large scale change We need to move beyond alignment and think about governance for leading large scale change: •Structure, trust, and process have to be deliberately built, particularly in collaborations where power, resources and influence are unevenly distributed •Leaders may need to embrace risk as we transition into new ways of work, e.g., from a high authority situation where there is strong management “grip” to a scenario where authority is shared; we need governance processes for managing this 4)Balance short and long term goals There is a tension at the heart of leadership for large scale change between delivering results in the short term and building capacity for the longer term. If there is too much emphasis, over a sustained period, on delivering short term results, the capacity will be overstretched and fail. If results aren’t delivered, decision makers and funders may lose faith. The team visualised the balance as the “45-degree zone”. 5)Be deliberate about leadership energy for large scale change Most large scale change initiatives fail because they run out of energy; the changes loses momentum, fizzles out and leaders move on to other agendas. Leadership energy for change isn’t just about leaders maintaining their own energy. It is about deliberate design of an intervention so that coordination costs are low, leaders have a sense of agency, the change feels do-able and the lifeblood of the change isn’t sapped out by the wider context. For more info on the “45 degree zone”: static1.squarespace.com/static/67c1309… Thank you to the Aspen Institute and the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance for an outstanding learning opportunity.

@DkIT_ie are delighted to support & adopt ALTITUDE – the National Charter for Universal Design in Tertiary Ed – & join the national call for institutions & agencies to work towards a more universally designed tertiary ed system - tinyurl.com/584vwc8d. @aheadireland @hea_irl

In just 3 words.. "Bureaucracy kills innovation"... room for thought here for thoae of us in #highereducation inc.com/kit-eaton/in-j…

Fantastic initiative from HEA. Great work by Patricia, Johdi and Brian for @DkIT_ie

Former Sinn Féin TD and academic Kathleen O'Callaghan passed away in St. John’s Hospital on this day 1961. She was an advocate for women's rights and a senior lecturer at Mary Immaculate College. She had married Mayor Michael O'Callaghan, who was murdered in her presence in 1921.

Recognition today for the great work of a fantastic team of staff and students in @DkIT_ie Great work @EverittReynolds and your colleagues.

Today, @hea_irl hosted the National Teaching and Learning Awards to celebrate excellence in higher education teaching and learning. Congratulations to the recipients of the DELTA and the SATLE Awards. teachingandlearning.ie/2025/03/12/hea…

Great engagement with @DavidHonys and @pkvosalik and colleagues from #CzechRepublic to @DkIT_ie

At the epicentre of the #Dublin – #Belfast economic corridor, we were hosted at Dundalk Institute of Technology, where we thoroughly discussed our roles in research and development as well as future 🇮🇪🤝🇨🇿 collaboration between @DkIT_ie and @Akademie_ved_CR institutes. DkIT covers a broad range of disciplines ranging from health and life sciences, through engineering and informatics to humanities and creative arts. We thank Dr. Diarmud O’Callaghan, @DkIT President, Dr. Sheila Flanagan, DkIT Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Moira Maguire, Head of School of Health & Science, and their colleagues for warm welcome and quite interesting and very informative tour around individual departments, and @czechembassyie for facilitating the meeting. @DOC_DkIT @Manarola @pkvosalik #ScienceDiplomacy #ResearchSecurity

@ErinMcGreehan Where did that charming puppy go? @ErinMcGreehan #berner

What a fabulous day here at Gyles Quay!!! ☀️☀️

People who can’t handle criticism are unfit to lead. Weak leaders silence their critics to shield their egos. They fear dissent as a threat to their power. Strong leaders silence their egos to learn from their critics. They welcome dissent as an opportunity for growth.

On this day in 1921, Mayor of Limerick George Clancy, former Mayor of Limerick Michael O’Callaghan and IRA Volunteer Joseph O'Donoghue were murdered in their homes. Digital Exhibit on the Limerick Curfew Murders: limerick.ie/sites/default/…