New president wants ICA to continue to grow
Wicklow Federation’s first president of the association, she starts a three-year term, taking over from Co Limerick’s Anne Maria Dennison.
The women’s organisation has about 11,000 members in about 700 guilds across the country.
Liz has been a member of the Ashford guild since 1992.
She has held various guild level and federation level officerships before becoming national secretary of the finance committee and An Grianán board member, and is currently national secretary and chairperson of development.
She was recently elected chair of a working group for the Confederation of Family Organisations in the EU, of which ICA is the only Irish member.
An ex-teacher, Liz has said she wants to see ICA going from strength to strength. A practical cookery school at An Grianán is one of her specific objectives.
She takes over from Anne Maria Dennison of Abbeyfeale, Co Limerick, whose three-year presidency has seen ICA become a higher profile organisation.
Following a strategic review in 2008, work on a programme of reinvention and modernisation has been underway. In 2010, the association celebrated its centenary, and adopted five priority policy areas — health issues, women and decision making, women and violence, trafficking of women and children, and the Amber Alert system to deal with the rapid and safe recovery of missing children.
TV programmes such as ICA Bootcamp have raised the profile of the association in recent years.
