Our Team

Fr Gary Howley SPS
National Director

Fr Gary Howley SPS is a member of St Patrick's Missionary Society; also known as the Kiltegan Fathers. He completed his term as Regional Superior for the Society's Region of Ireland in 2008. Before that he was editor of Africa: St Patrick's Missions for eleven years. He also spent some years on mission in Nigeria and, later, in Zambia.

Email: director@wmi.ie

Patricia Murphy
Finance Officer

Patricia took up her role in 1999, following her return from volunteering with the Catholic Mission for two years in The Gambia.

Email: patricia@wmi.ie

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Jackie Pallas
National Secretary of Missionary Children

Evolving from a background in finance Jackie joined the Mission Societies in 2000 and later progressed to take up her role as National Secretary in 2003. Jackie promotes Missionary Children, or as it is known in Ireland - Children Helping Children - in primary schools throughout the country, developing materials and teaching aids for teachers and pupils. During her time as National Secretary Jackie has embarked on a number of visits to projects supported by Missionary Children in Africa and Asia. Email: jackie@wmi.ie 

Berna Whiteley
Support Administrator

Berna joined the Mission Societies team in 2002 as support administrator for Missionary Children and the Union of Priests and Religious. Berna has over-seen the numerous school mail-outs for Missionary Children as well as looking after the distribution of our prayer booklet, 'Prayers and Reflections'.

Email: berna@wmi.ie

Fiona Walsh
Personal Assistant

Fiona has worked as PA to the National Director since 2001. She is also responsible for organising the mail out for Mission Sunday each year. Before taking up this role, Fiona worked on the Jubilee Project in Archbishop's House which looked at ways of marking the Millennium year. Prior to that, she worked at University College Dublin.

Email: fiona@wmi.ie

Ger Franklyn
Housekeeper

Ger Franklyn is our wonderful housekeeper and has worked with us since 2003. Prior to this Ger worked as a child-care assistant in a large crèche.

Rathmines Active Retirement Group
Volunteers

We would like to thank our many volunteers from the Active Retirement Group in Rathmines who help us with our nationwide mail-outs. If you would like to help volunteer, please phone on 497 2035 or send an email to mission@wmi.ie