Planning and the Community Sector

19 Aug 2010

Whilst planning school graduates have traditionally tended to work in local government and other public sector agencies, their skills are increasingly in demand in private practice, in development, and in a whole range of non-governmental settings throughout the world.

Sean O'Leary a member of the 2008 foundation M.Plan graduate class at UCC is policy and communications officer with Irish Rural Link an umbrella NGO group that represents rural commuities. In April 2010 he presented a paper: 'What rural communities want from planners' to the Irish National Planning Conference.