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Representative Martina Feeney

Ms Martina Feeney became representative of Ireland in Palestine in March 2014. She presented her credentials to President Abbas on 3 February 2015.

Representative of Ireland to the Palestinian Authority, Ms Martina Feeney

Message from the Representative

Welcome to the website of the Representative Office of Ireland in Ramallah. I am honoured to represent my country here as the sixth Irish Representative. Together with my colleagues, we work to promote relations between the Irish and the Palestinian peoples and to support the state-building efforts of Palestine.

Ireland and Palestine share a close affinity and understanding and support for the Palestinian people is deeply rooted in Irish society. We have had a Representative Office here in Ramallah since 2000 and we have been providing development and humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people for over two decades.

In these pages, we aim to inform you of our activities as well as keeping you up to date on relevant developments. For those of you who want to know more about Ireland we have some links to useful sources of information.

With best wishes

Martina Feeney
Representative of Ireland

Representative Feeney’s biography

Martina Feeney took up duty as the Representative of Ireland in Palestine on 10 March 2014. Ms Feeney is a career diplomat who joined the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in 1990. From 2008 to 2013 she was the Deputy Head of the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe. During the Irish Chairmanship of the Organisation in 2012 she had responsibility for the Human Dimension and also dealt with the Asian and Mediterranean Partners for Cooperation.

Prior to taking up duty in Vienna, Ms Feeney was seconded to Ireland’s Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment for three years, from 2005 to 2008, to head up the Licensing Unit, Ireland’s export control authority. During this time she chaired the Expert Group of the Wassenaar Arrangement – the export control regime for conventional arms and dual use goods – in 2007 and 2008.

From 2001 to 2005, Ms Feeney served at Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade HQ, in Political Division, as Deputy Director OSCE and Council of Europe and later Deputy Director Europe. Previous assignments at HQ include Development Cooperation Division and Consular Services. From 1997 to 2001 Ms Feeney served at the Embassy of Ireland in Germany as the Press, Information and Cultural Affairs Officer. Her first overseas assignment was to the Embassy of Ireland Vienna/Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN in Vienna from 1991 to 1994.