contact our Connaught volunteer representatives
We have a volunteer representative near you! Click on your province and scroll down to find your County. Local independently run Facebook groups are listed by County or click here for Home Ed
General requests, please contact the HEN Contact Officer @emails@henireland.org
PR requests, please contact our National PR Officer @ pro@henireland.org
** Any Facebook pages are not HEN managed, these groups have been set up by home ed families around the country. We have just compiled them into one place for easy access. **
* County Contacts are all volunteers, we have no paid staff. Please be respectful when contacting them and it may take a few days for them to get back to you.
Galway
Representative: Marta Dorigo Salamon meleusina@yahoo.it
I have been unschooling my daughter – born in 2012 – from the start for a mixture of reasons. We moved to Ireland from Italy in December 2018 and we joined HEN immediately. I am an intuitive healer, but currently my days are happily filled mostly with motherhood and unschooling.
Representative: Sarah Mc Loughlin 085 7192511 / sarahmc92@hotmail.com
I have been unschooling my boys for nearly 4 years now in beautiful Connemara. As a wellness coach I’m conscious of finding ways to make things work and I bring that to our homeschooling experience whenever I can. I’m also a second level teacher so I have experience of both sides of the education system.
Facebook groups: Galway Home Educators in Action
Galway Home Education (Homeschooling /Unschooling) and Surrounding Areas
Leitrim
Representative: Sharon Conlon 0863773330 / sharonconloneduc@gmail.com
Sharon, mum of 2 children, son is 14 and home educated/informal learning for over 6 years with zero interest in school and daughter is 15 and was home educated for 3 years and returned to secondary school at own choice in 2020. Home education is a truly wonderful journey and I have yet to meet anyone who has regretted it!
Facebook group: Leitrim and surrounds home education group
Mayo
Representative: We don’t have one yet! Could you be our representative?
Contact emails@henireland.org
Facebook group: Mayo Home Educators
Roscommon
Representative: Sharon Conlon 0863773330 / sharonconloneduc@gmail.com
Sharon, mum of 2 children, son is 14 and home educated/informal learning for over 6 years with zero interest in school and daughter is 15 and was home educated for 3 years and returned to secondary school at own choice in 2020. Home education is a truly wonderful journey and I have yet to meet anyone who has regretted it!
Facebook group: Roscommon Homeschooling
Sligo
Representative: Anna anna_sergeenko@yahoo.com
I am a mum to 2 boys (8yo. and 2yo.). We are a bilingual (Russian/English) family living in Sligo for the last 9 years. Both boys are home educated from the start. We are very eclectic in our choices from following a curriculum to child/interest lead learning to unschooling. And yes, parents are perfectly capable of educating their own kids.
Facebook group: Sligo home educators