Clarenbridge woman is new Trades Council President

Clarenbridge native Marian Spelman has become the third woman in the history of the Galway Trades Council to become its President.
Marian, who is a nurse and a member of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) was elected at the Council’s recent AGM. Another woman, Geri Slevin was elected as its Vice President.
Marian has been a member of a union “on and off” since her college days at NUIG. She had been a member of IMPACT for years but over a year ago joined INMO, the dedicated nurses’ union.
She is currently INMO’s Regional Secretary of the Registered Nurses for Intellectual Disability sector.
Her interest in trade unions is deep rooted and her wish to see a bit more interaction between different trade unions led her to joining the Galway Trades Council about seven years ago.
Marian works with the Brothers of Charity in Clarenbridge where she runs a day service centre for people with disability as well as those with autism.
In her varied career, though she stresses nursing has remained her core choice, she has returned to college in her 30s to a degree in Sociology and Politics and English, a HDip in Applied Communication and an MA in journalism!

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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