Daire Hennessy

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111 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3 May

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The Pat Kenny Show · Daire Hennessy, CEO of Citywise Education · 3 May 2026 podcast

Yeah, kind of a mixture of both.

So I kind of ended up in Citywise by fluke.

At the time, there was a kind of a new shiny Astro that Citywise had developed.

And that was a big draw for me and my friends.

So we kind of went over one day to start playing football.

And over time, we would have been kind of slowly brought into the fold where they would invite us maybe to go on trips or hikes or canoeing or whatever else was happening.

But in tandem with that, then I also would have been pushed from the kind of school side as well, where CityWise has great relationships in our community.

So they would, the school would have been saying, we would have went on a lot of school trips.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so I suppose the secret there is like nobody comes to CityWise because they want to go to college.

You come and they're 8, 9, 10, like I did.

And it's for the crack, as you said, it's for meeting people that you like, getting kind of settled in the environment.

And over time then, instead of coming for football, someone in CityWise will suggest, well, why don't you come tomorrow and bring your homework and I'll help you with your multiplication or your spelling or whatever it was that we were doing at the time.

And then from there, you know, you're no longer coming to CityWise for the sport and the art and the music.

You're coming for the relationships because you know the people, because you've made friends with the volunteers, with the staff, and they're encouraging.

And to a degree, you're just kind of, they become your role models and you want to kind of follow in their footsteps and it makes it all kind of normal.

But at the same time, it's fun as well.

So it's all about when we're doing maths activities, we're not sitting down with a...

you know, a whiteboard and a marker.

It's all about, you know, hands-on learning how many two-euro coins fit on the floor in CityWise.

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