A native speaker of Irish from the Galway Gaeltacht, he brings to the role long and multi-faceted\u00a0professional experience in the\u00a0TV, media, arts and community development sectors, at both regional and national level.<\/p>\n
Born in Huddersfield, England of\u00a0 Connemara parents, he received his education in Ireland, culminating in a degree in Commerce\u00a0from NUIG in Galway.\u00a0In his subsequent career path, he worked as a Project Manager with Gaelsc\u00e9al<\/em>, as Series Producer on the TV drama series Ros na R\u00fan<\/em>, as Artistic Director with the Irish language theatre Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe<\/em> and with the theatre company Na F\u00e1naithe.\u00a0<\/em>He and his young family have lived in An Cheathr\u00fa Rua in the heart of the Galway Gaeltacht for many years where he also gained experience as a manager with various community\/development\u00a0Gaeltacht-based organisations including Cumas\/MFG and Comhairle Ceantar na nOile\u00e1n.<\/p>\n He has been a member of Seanad \u00c9ireann\u00a0since 2011 and in that role has gained wide media experience from another perspective, handling media of all kinds; regional, national and social in both Irish and English.<\/p>\n TG4 Director General Alan Esslemont <\/strong>welcomed Trevor \u00d3 Clochartaigh to the TG4 team. \u201cThis is our first appointment to this newly-created post at \u00a0TG4<\/em>,\u201d he said \u201cand we were heartened by the quality of applicants for the position.\u00a0 We are delighted to be appointing someone with such wide experience and expertise in the arts and community development in addition to the media, TV\u00a0and public affairs\u00a0\u00a0 with total fluency in both languages.\u00a0It is indeed timely that he joins us as we begin to implement our newly drafted comprehensive Strategy Plan 2018 \u2013 2022 recently submitted to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.\u00a0Trevor will have a key role with us, working closely with with independent producers who supply TG4\u2019s content, in ensuring that our output receives lots of media coverage and has a high profile with the viewing public.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Trevor \u00d3 Clochartaigh <\/strong>says he is looking forward greatly to his new challenge:\u201cTG4 delivers <\/em>a comprehensive daily Irish language service across multiple platforms worldwide<\/em>.\u00a0As the competition increases, the quality of our output and the public regard and affection in which the service is held, means we face forward with confidence ,\u201d <\/em>he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A native speaker of Irish from the Galway Gaeltacht, he brings to the role long and multi-faceted\u00a0professional experience in the\u00a0TV, media, arts and community development sectors, at both regional and national level. Born in Huddersfield, England of\u00a0 Connemara parents, he received his education in Ireland, culminating in a degree in Commerce\u00a0from NUIG in Galway.\u00a0In his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":999,"featured_media":74151,"parent":72851,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-pr.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n