• Seán Penston

    Seán Penston works in Facilities Management in Healthcare. He holds B.Sc. (Hons) in Environmental Studies.

    He lives in Arklow and has a strong attachment to his local environment and its flora and fauna and because of this he became involved with The Rivers Trust to contribute to improving and enhancing our water courses and their surroundings.

  • Ashley Glover

    Ashley Glover has a degree in law (TCD) and a masters in economics (UCD). 

    His particular areas of interest are environmental data, deer management and native woodland conservation. 

    He is a member of Rewild Wicklow and Pro Silva Ireland, and sits on the Boards of Right to Know CLG and the Irish Deer Commission.

  • James Scott

    James Scott works in the tech industry as an operations manager. He holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Idaho.

    James volunteers with Tidy Towns and a number of other organisations focused on developing more inter-connectedness between communities and nature.

    He lives near the coastal wetlands of the Breaches in north Wicklow, and became involved in the Rivers Trust to assist more local communities in preserving and enhancing their water environments.

  • Anne Newton

    Anne Newton holds a BSc and MSc in zoology (Trinity) and a PhD on Shetland seabirds (Glasgow).

    Post-doctoral research on Scottish corncrakes and dippers was followed by a stint in Arabia working on vultures and juniper cloud forests.

    Back home in Ireland she worked as an environmental consultant, before children, and now proof-reads and edits environmental reports, while maintaining a productive organic garden and small holding.

  • Michael Keegan

    Michael has been a farmer all his life, farming experience includes intensive cattle, tillage, poultry and sheep production systems. He has been Farm Manager at Luggala Estate Ltd since 2020.

    Michael is the current chairperson of Wicklow Uplands Council and also the current chairperson of Enniskerry IFA.

    He is experienced in deer stalking/management and delivery of on the ground works associated with landscape scale environmental restoration projects.