
Helen O’Shaughnessy
Since graduating in 1981, Helen’s nursing experience extended to working in Scotland for four years before working in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Yemen and on to Australia and New Zealand for 28 years. Helen loves the outdoors, sport, hiking, cycling .and swimming and as a keen triathelete, participates in marathons and Ironman events. She has actively campaigned for social change, including abortion rights, separation of church and state and the Removal of Blasphemy Laws from the Irish Constitution. As an active Humanist and accredited celebrant in NZ, she moved back to Ireland in 2017 to care for her sister who was terminally Ill. Assisted Dying is, she feels is a fundamental human right something not afforded to her sister, or many others. Now back in NZ, Helen continues to work with us, bringing her experience of working with End of Life Choice NZ where Assisted Dying is now available to us here in Ireland..