One Family Board Members
Board members give their time voluntarily and are not remunerated. One Family is compliant the Charities Regulator’s Charities Governance Code.
Read our strategy for 2022 – 2024 here.
Our annual directors’ reports can be found here.
Nuala Haughey | Chairperson
Nuala is Head of Communications, Research and Innovation with the Legal Services Regulatory Authority. Nuala’s background is in journalism, she is a former award-winning correspondent with The Irish Times and also has extensive expertise as a press officer and communications consultant for the European Commission and electoral authorities overseas. Nuala previously worked as a political analyst, advocate and researcher in the areas of anti-corruption, democratic accountability, good governance and active citizenship for Transparency International Ireland and the independent progressive think tank, TASC. Prior to her current role, she was the Communications Director with the Social Democrats. Nuala lives in Dublin and is married with two children.
Joined April 2018.
Jack Eustace | Vice Chair
Jack is Governance & Policy Officer with Spunout, Ireland’s youth information service. His role is to support the Leadership Team and Board of Directors in matters of governance, compliance, strategy, communications and public policy. Between 2020-2023, Jack worked as political advisor to Senator Marie Sherlock and previously held roles in policy development and political communications for the Labour Party.
Joined September 2020.
Éimear Fisher
Éimear is an experienced former civil servant, now working in independent consultancy. Her civil service career spanned a wide range of responsibilities in the justice, equality and child policy sectors. She set up the first Equal Status Unit in the Equality Tribunal as well as Cosc, the national office to co-ordinate government activity to tackle domestic and sexual violence, leading the development of the first national strategy on domestic and sexual violence. Other assignments included family court and criminal court registrar, senior roles at the Garda Inspectorate and in organisational development in the justice sector. In her position as Assistant Secretary at the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, she was responsible for operational standards and performance, policy and legislative developments relating to child welfare and protection, alternative care and related issues of children’s rights. Her current work includes strategic, policy and governance consultancy with a number of NGOs, State bodies and government departments.
Joined September 2020.
Donagh McGowan
Donagh McGowan is the principal of Donagh McGowan & Co. solicitors and has almost 30 years’ experience as a practising solicitor. His career has focused on providing services to private clients, most particularly in the areas of family law, wills & probate, trusts and residential property. Donagh’s practice includes advising on all family law matters with a particular emphasis on judicial separation and divorce.
Donagh is a former Chair of the Law Society of Ireland Family Law Committee. He is a trained mediator and a trained professional in Collaborative Law. Donagh has tutored in the Law Society of Ireland and has spoken on many occasions at family law conferences, including the annual conferences of the Law Society of Ireland and the Legal Aid Board. He is also a regular media contributor on family law and other issues.
Joined July 2021.
Rosemary Wokocha
Rosemary is a Chartered Accountant and Head of Fiduciary for Marsh Ireland, a member of the Marsh McLennan Group, the world’s leading insurance broker and risk advisor. She previously worked in the pharmaceutical sector, and prior to that, she worked as a Senior Accountant in the Charity sector for over 13 years, working with both national and international charities, one of which was One Family. She also served on the Board of the Irish Family Planning Association, sitting on the Audit and Finance Committee.
Joined July 2021.
Brigid Murray
Brigid Murray is an Airport Search Unit Supervisor with Dublin Airport Authority with responsibility for safeguarding civil aviation against acts of unlawful interference. She is currently studying Business Innovation in Trinity College Dublin and also has qualifications in supervision, management and early years. She has over twenty years’ experience in security, business development and retail management and also worked in early childhood care and education for a number of years. Brigid attended our New Futures Employability Programme in 2016 and she is passionate about the work of One Family. She regularly advocates publically for lone parents based on her personal experiences of parenting alone and sharing parenting after separation. She has four children and two granddaughters.
Joined July 2023.
John Mannion
John Mannion is a Management Consultant with Accenture, where is he is Public Service Global Offering Development and Innovation Lead. In this role he advises Accenture on their investments in Public Service as well as advised clients on innovation, through Accenture’s Global Innovation Centre The Dock. He also oversees Commercial Modelling and 360 Value for all Accenture’s Global Solutuions. He has extensive experience advising clients in Public Service in the US, Asia and the EU including Ireland. John has a background in education, unions and is also curreny Chair of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College Dublin Students Union. He is passionate about the work of One Family, and joined the board in the same year he welcomed his daughter Hanna to the world.
Joined October 2024.
Aoife Desmond
Aoife Desmond is currently a Director at technology company, Indeed. She has an extensive background in marketing and communications, having worked in senior roles for Meta, Google, Twitter and VisitScotland. Co-parenting a teen, Aoife advocates for inclusion of those facing barriers through her work at Indeed and One Family.
Joined July 2023.
Mark Casey
Mark is a Health Systems Engineer with the Health Information and Quality Authority. His background is in process design, automation and innovation in the life sciences industry. He has worked across major capital projects, startup facilities and in leading teams through projects and production in firms like Eli Lilly and Johnson and Johnson. Mark has an MBA from DCU, has studied a Masters in Engineering in UCC and a Bachelors of Science in Applied Physics from MTU. Mark is passionate about the mission of One Family and working to support lone parents.
Joined October 2025.
Karen Toland
Karen is a Finance Director at VRAI a simulation software company based in Dublin. She is a Chartered Accountant having trained in KPMG. She has spent most of her career working in the aviation industry working in regional airlines Cityjet and Aer Lingus taking on various roles in systems implementation, procurement processes, investment project management, and other governance roles. She has also worked in the aircraft leasing business in Dublin leading both contracts and asset management teams. She is a mother of three daughters and is passionate in supporting One family in their work in supporting single parents enter and remain in the workplace, maximising their full potential and addressing the barriers one parent families are facing in Ireland today.
Joined October 2025.