Maria Fenton

Maria Fenton is a Spanish teacher with 20 years’ experience.  She is the author of three Spanish textbooks: ¡Venga! Leaving Cert Spanish, Edco, 2020; ¿Qué pasa? 1 Junior Cycle Spanish, Edco 2017  and ¿Qué pasa? 2 Junior Cycle Spanish, Edco

Yun Wu

Yun Wu is a native Chinese speaker with more than 10 years teaching experience. Among her roles she has taught Chinese language in the UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland. She holds a National Putonghua Proficiency Test (PSC) – Level 1-

Ramadan Abughalia

Ramadan has been teaching Leaving Certificate Arabic for over 5 years, He has taught Arabic for non Arabic speakers for over 10 years and also has 13 years experience in teaching English as a second language. Previously, Ramadan was the

Luke Rock

Luke Rock teaches Irish at The Institute of Education. He graduated with first-class honours in Irish and Music from Trinity College Dublin, where he also taught Irish. He is an experienced translator and has translated a number of schoolbooks into

Robbie Cronin

Robbie teaches Irish and Spanish and has worked for many years with the State Examinations Commission devising curricula and as an exam corrector. He was a member of the NCCA committees tasked with devising Junior Cycle and Leaving Certificate courses.

Begona de la Fuente

Begoña is a native Spanish speaker with over 20 years experience of teaching Spanish. After obtaining her degree in Spanish Language and Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid she completed a course to specialise in Teaching Spanish as a

Erika Capello

Erika is a native Italian speaker. After obtaining her master’s degree in teaching Italian as a second language from the University of Paris VIII, she completed a specialised course in teaching Italian to secondary school students (CAPS) at the University

Arnaud Bongrand

Arnaud is a native French speaker and has taught at the Institute for eight years. He has 24 years  teaching experience, having taught in the Alliance Française, Euro Languages College and Living Language.  Arnaud has worked with the Department of