User:Djouce

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Mairéad Lafferty formerly Lyons was born in Dublin Ireland in the early 1960's. Following School Mairéad worked in the Civil Service first in the Civil Service Commission and later after taking a year to work on the missions in Argentina, in Department of Health. Following her marriage and then birth of her first child Mairéad left the Civil Service to work as a home keeper. When her children were at School going age Mairéad went back to work as a Taxi Driver in Dublin. She was one of the first Lady drivers in Dublin. While taxing Mairéad went back to College to study IT and subsequently went on to study the JEB which enabled her to Teach. She took her first Teaching job teaching the computer in St Killian's School in Bray in 2000. From there she went on and continued her education while working and gained her Honours Degree in Humanity with English Language with the Open University. To date Mairéad works with the Bray Travellers Community Development Group and with Kildare Wicklow Education Training Board.