Staff Directory
- Sean Featherstone
- Principal
Sean Featherstone has been the Managing Director of DBL College since May 2003. He was educated in Dublin and pursued a successful marketing career in the United States and England before returning to Ireland and realising his ambition of establishing DBL College.
- Elaine Cohalan
- General Manager & Programme Director
Elaine has been with DBL College since 2005. She is General Manager of all programmes as well as Programme Director for programmes of Further & Higher Education at DBL College. She also coordinates and supports the IT activities in the College.
Elaine is BSc graduate of Cork Institute of Technology (Software
Development & Computer Networking), and a MSc Graduate of University
College Dublin (Cognitive Science).
- Annette Lambert
- Assistant Director of English Studies
Annette worked full-time as an English language teacher at DBL before being promoted to Assistant Director of Studies.She is an arts
graduate from UCD and also holds an honours postgraduate qualification
in IT which she obtained from NUI Maynooth. Annette is a qualified
primary school teacher and has several years experience of teaching
English to speakers of other languages.
- Joanie Zhao
- Office Administrator
- Sandy Liu
- Office Administrator
- Maire Byrne
- Office Administrator
- Sinead O' Connor
- Office Administrator
- Gosia Zarosa
- Office Administrator
- Therese Featherstone
- HR Manager
- Yvonne Morris
- Accommodation Officer
Teachers & Assessors:
- Carla Bennett
- Carla has been an employee at DBL since the school first opened its
doors in 2003. Carla teaches English full-time and is also the editor of
the school newspaper 'The DBL Times'. She is a graduate of Trinity
College Dublin where she was awarded a BA in English; Carla also has a
Higher Diploma in education from UCD
- Bridin Lyng
- Bridin studied history and classics at NUI Maynooth where she graduated
with an honours degree. Since graduating she has travelled extensively
and has now settled back in Ireland where she has been teaching English
full-time in DBL for over a year.
- Elizabeth Bach
- Elizabeth (Betty) is a long–term part-time English teacher at DBL.
Before moving to Ireland Elizabeth graduated from the University of
Maryland with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish. Elizabeth has
several years teaching experience and has taught both Spanish and
English as foreign languages.
- Paul Nulty
- Paul teaches in DBL's FETAC Information Technology course. He has a BA
Computer Science and Linguistics from UCD, and is currently completing a
PhD in Computational Linguistics in UCD. He also tutors in Java
Programming at University College Dublin.
- Jenny Clarke
- Jenny graduated with a Bachelor of Education degree in human movement and health education. She has been teaching with the last seven years in various topics from English, Mathematics, Physical Education, Sports Science, Geography, Communications, and Early Childhood Studies. She currently teaches part-time on DBL's business programmes.
- Mike McVicker
- Mike is a graduate of the Irish Management Institute where he obtained an honours degree in Management. Qualifications in Industrial Management, Mechanical Engineering and Virtual Tutoring underpin his experience as a management practitioner. He teaches part time at DBL on the business programmes.
- Agnes Bolek
- Agnes holds both a BA in Management and Marketing in Public Administration and an MA in English Philology. She has several years' teaching experience both in Poland and Ireland. Agnes currently teaches on DBL's English Programme.
- Colm Delmar
- Colm obtained both an honours degree and a Higher Diploma in Education from Trinity College, Dublin. He has several years' teaching experience both in Ireland and the UK. He currently teaches English and Tourism at DBL.
- Lucia Pacini
- Lucia is a graduate of UCD where she obtained a BA in English and Italian. She has several years TEFL experience both in Ireland and abroad.
- Larry Hogan
- Larry graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Limerick College of Technology. He has many years of experience in industry, working as a Systems Analyst, Programmer & in technical support, and in lecturing, having taught Computer Studies, Audio Editing & Production, Computer Graphics, Microsoft Applications & Sound Engineering. He currently teaches Desktop Publishing & Word Procressing at DBL College.
- Ciaran Armstrong
- Ciaran is a former Chartered Accountant with over 25 years of Industry experience. He originally qualified with a degree in Commerce from University College Dublin. He went on to receive ACA & FCA qualifications from The Institute of Chartered Accountants. In recent years he has moved into education and has qualifications from ACELs, JEB, City & Guilds, FETAC & ECDL. Ciaran currently teaches Accounting & General Studies subjects at DBL College.
- John Kavanagh
- John studied German and Politics at Queens University in Belfast. He has much experience working with languages and teaching students on various projects. He has been part of the DBL team since 2005. He is currently responsible for teaching English language, Business English and various FETAC courses in the DBL's Further & Higher Education Centre. He obtained his TEFL qualification in 2004.
- Emma Brennan
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Emma has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Law and Taxation. After completing her CELT teacher training course, Emma travelled abroad teaching English to junior and adult learners before starting her position in DBL.
- Chantal Ryan
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Chantal trained as a TEFL teacher in Hammersmith and West London College and taught for over 10 years in Central America. Since returning to Ireland in 1998 she has achieved her Accounting Technicians qualification in Limerick Senior College while working as a financial Analyst. She also spent 3 years running her own business. As well as teaching at DBL she is currently training to become a Business and Life Coach.
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- Una Curtin
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Una has a BSc (Hons) in Psychology and Criminology and is currently studying for MA Human Resource Management. She received TEFL qualifications in 2002 and spent 2 years teaching English in Poland and 3 years teaching English in Mexico. Una started in DBL College in 2008 and teaches IELTS preparation courses as well as Further Education courses.
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- Lorraine Murphy
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Lorraine has a B.Sc in Management & Marketing and is a graduate of CIPD. She worked in Human Resources for many years and obtained her CELT qualification in 2009. Lorraine currently teaches Personal Effectiveness in the Workplace and Language & Exam Preparation.