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Allan has always promoted technology. Jeananne achieved notable success in
He has founded a number of wireless three arenas: as an actress–on both stage
companies and introduced the !rst and screen–as a playwright and as a news -
commercial millimetre wave spectrum paper columnist. Her play Goodnight
in Ireland. He has developed hardware Siobhan was performed at the Royal Court
and software services as well as apps. Theatre, and she has been a regular con -
He has held senior posi tions within the trib utor to British and Irish national news -
telecoms industry and was a director papers, including The Sunday Times, The
of the Irish Internet Society. Allan was Observer, The Guardian, and The Irish Times.
awarded Fellow of the Irish Computer In "''", she was a judge for the Irish Novel -
Society for his contribution to the Irish ist of the Year competition. Her recent
wireless industry. work includes Sunshine Fisherman and
the Cleggan Disaster, based on the poet
Richard Murphy, and the role of Constance
Markievitz in Mary Kenny’s Dearest Old
Darling which she performed in London,
Dublin, and Clifden.

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