Pat Farrell

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title: "Pat Farrell" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["year-of-birth-missing-(living-people)", "post-2008-irish-economic-downturn", "fianna-fáil-senators", "irish-chief-executives", "irish-businesspeople-in-finance", "living-people", "members-of-the-19th-seanad", "nominated-members-of-seanad-éireann"] description: "Irish businessman and former politician" topic_path: "economics" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Farrell" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Irish businessman and former politician ::

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Field	Value
office	Senator
term_start	3 December 1992
term_end	17 February 1993
constituency	Nominated by the Taoiseach
party	Fianna Fáil
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Career

Farrell has been Head of Marketing and Communications and General Manager retail operations at EBS Building Society, Chief Executive at Galway's Galvia Private Hospital and General Manager at Sligo Regional Hospital. He is Chairman of Sightsavers International (Ireland) and is a board member of FOLD Ireland.

Farrell was appointed as Head of Group Corporate Communications and Government Relations at Bank of Ireland in May 2013. He retired in March 2019.

Farrell was the chief executive of the Irish Banking Federation. He was appointed in January 2004. As well as this he was a member of the executive committee of the European Banking Federation, representing the interests of commercial banks across the continent.

In March 2019, Farrell became chief executive of property group Irish Institutional Property.

Political office

Farrell was General Secretary of Fianna Fáil between 1991 and 1997.

References

References

1. "Reuters.com".
2. (2014). "Sightsavers Annual Review 2014".
3. "Pat Farrell becomes head of comms at Bank of Ireland".
4. Brady, Niall. (30 December 2018). "Bank adviser makes plans to spin out". The Sunday Times.
5. "FIBI Says New Government Strategy Represents Major Step Forward for IFSC - Banking and Payments Federation Ireland".
6. "Pat Farrell LinkedIn". LinedkIn.
7. O'Halloran, Barry. "Pat Farrell to leave Bank of Ireland for new property industry lobby". The Irish Times.
8. "Pat Farrell". Oireachtas Members Database.

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