NMBI Board members

The Board comprises 23 members. There is a lay majority of one, with 12 members who are not, and never have been, registered nurses or midwives. Of the remaining 11 members, eight are registered nurses and midwives elected by the professions. The elected members represent the general, children's, psychiatric, intellectual disability, public health and midwifery divisions of the Register. They represent the areas of nurse training, administration and clinical practice. A further three nurses and midwives are appointed by the Minister of Health. 

All Board members act in a non-executive capacity.

Information on being a member of the Board of NMBI is available here.

Louise Kavanagh McBride (President)

• President of NMBI
• Nominated by the Institutes of Technology.
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2026.

Áine Lynch

• Vice President of NMBI
• Nominated by the Health Service Executive (Directors of Nursing or Directors of Midwifery).
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2025.

Mittu Alungal

• Elected from the practice of care of older person
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Lydia Buckley

• Nominated by the Health Information and Quality Authority
• ​Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Louise Collins

• Nominated by the Health Service Executive.
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2025.

Ray Dolan

• Nominated to represent the public interest
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Anne Marie Duffy

• Nominated to represent the public interest
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2026

Nadine Farah

• Nominated by the Medical Council
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Gráinne Gaffney

• Elected to represent registrants from the public health sector engaged in the education of nurses and midwivess.
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2029.

John Horan

• Appointed public representative
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Mark Johnston

• Elected from the practice of psychiatric nursing
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Marie Lavelle

• Elected from the practice of children's nursing.

• Term of office ends on 14 January 2029.

Mary Leahy

• Elected from the practice of public health nursing
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Mary Rose Loughnane

• Elected from the practice of intellectual disability nursing
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Aileen Lynch

• Nominated by the Minister for Education.
• Term of office ends on 16 April 2029.

Terence McGonigal

• Nominated to represent the public interest
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2026

Conan McKenna

• Nominated to represent the public interest.
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2026.

Margaret Murphy

• Nominated by the universities
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Niamh Murphy

• Nominated by the Health and Social Care Professionals Council Coru
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Muireann Ní Shúilleabháin

• Nominated to represent the voluntary sector
• Term of office ends on 12 January 2027

Sonia Shortt

• Nominated by the Health Service Executive.
• Term of office ends on 14 January 2029.

Somy Thomas

• Elected from the practice of general nursing
• ​Term of office ends on 14 January 2029