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Jillian Godsil is a journalist, broadcaster, law changer, former European Parliament candidate and writer living and working in Ireland. She became very well known on domestic and international circles for her activism against the banks. She spent ten years fighting - everyone or so it seemed. She exited bankruptcy in 2016 (exiting bankruptcy)and her life has turned full circle. New life She is now working in the fast moving world of cryptocurrency and loving every minute of it

Early Life
Jillian was born on 27 February 1965 in Dublin. She is one of six children of Richard and Mary Godsil. Her siblings are Arthur, Ena, Richard, Ann and John. Arthur Godsil is well known as the ex headmaster of St Andrew’s College in Booterstown and as an expert in all matters education. Jillian attended The High School, Danum, and was the first sole female president of the Past Pupils’Alumni in 2014.

University
Jillian then attended Trinity College Dublin where she read History and English, majoring in History. She was involved in the College Historical Society, (the Hist) the oldest debating society in the world, as an ordinary committee member and afterwards as Librarian. She is now an honorary member of the society and was asked twice to debate in the Hist in 2016 once in the Irish Times annual Honorary Members debate and later at the Inaugural.

London
In her final year (1987) Jillian was hired on the milkround to work for JP Morgan as a systems analyst. She spent three years in London where she met her husband, Mike Izatt.

Sydney
They emigrated to Sydney Australia where she switched career from analyst to IT PR consultant. She spent three years in Sydney, the last year setting up her own PR business.

Singapore
Jillian and her husband moved to Singapore where she worked with Hill & Knowlton. She held the title of Asia Pacific Director of Technology. She had her first child, Georgina.

Dublin
They returned home to Ireland in 1994 and Jillian worked briefly for Grayling PR before moving to Iona Technologies as PRO. In 1996 she set up her own PR company again. She had her second child Kathryn in the same year. She then moved with her husband and children to County Wicklow where they did up a ruin called Raheengraney House. She ran a successful PR company employing five people.

Raheengraney House
In 2009 Jillian and her husband separated. They put their large Georgian manor on the market to sell. The property crash had just begun. They got one offer of €1.1million but that fell through. The price crashed. They divorced and Mike returned to the UK where he became bankrupt, thereby giving all the couole’s debt to his ex wife and their two children. Her business collapsed and bailiffs called. She moved out of the big house to rent it and moved into a nearby cottage with her children. She tried to sell the house by making a video in 2011 which went viral. She went a bit viral and was interviewed on most domestic papers, radio and TV. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/the-trapped-and-the-priced-out-1.458572 In time, she was also interviewed by many foreign TV stations and news outlets. She became the brokest woman in Ireland. After discovering so much hardship and unfairness towards ordinary people facing home repossession, she became an accidental activist. She fought to protect the small person against the banks. She got a cash offer to buy her house at a reduced price of €500,000 but the banks refused consent to sell.

Bankruptcy and Changing the Law
She was forced into bankruptcy. She was the first female bankrupt under the new laws. She then took the Irish Government to the High Court claiming that her constitutional rights were being infringed as she could not run for public office as a bankrupt. Mick Wallace, TD, retained his job as a TD when he was forced into bankruptcy through her legal action. Times UK She subsequently ran for Ireland South in the European Parliamentary Elections as an independent. She earned 9179 first preference votes before being eliminated on more than 11,500 votes. She then studied a Masters in Screenwriting in IADT in 2014/2015.

Writing
Jillian is represented by The Jonathan Williams Literary Agency. She has written a number of fiction books under her own name, self published. She has written a number of non-fiction books under her own name, two memoirs and one book about the family with a middle child suffering with cerebral palsy. She has written a trilogy of erotica under the penname of Aoife Brennan. This is comic, feminist, activist erotica. Cougar Novels

Journalism
Jillian is currently a journalist with CryptoCoin.news. She also writes for the Irish Independent Comment Pages. She has written for the Sunday Independent business pages. She writes for Farm Ireland She has written for The Irish Times and many other domestic and international publications.

Broadcasting
Jillian is an occasional host on EasyRadio and currently has her own programme on DublinCityFM.