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Year Past President
2024–2025 Barry Doyle
2023 – 2024 Sinead Donovan 
2022 – 2023 Pat O'Neill
2020 – 2022
 Paul Henry
2019 – 2020 Conall O'Halloran
2018 – 2019 Feargal McCormack
2017 – 2018 Shauna Greely 
2016 – 2017 Liam Lynch
2015 – 2016 Tony Nicholl
2014 – 2015 Ronan Nolan
2013 – 2014 Brendan Lenihan
2012 – 2013 Austin Slattery
2011 – 2012 John Hannaway
2010 – 2011 Paul O'Connor
2009 – 2010 Tom Fitzpatrick
2008 – 2009 James W. Aiken
2007 – 2008 Vincent Sheridan
2006 – 2007 Martin Wilson
2005 – 2006 John P. Greely
2004 – 2005 Terence F. O’Rourke
2003 – 2004 James Oliver Hunt
2002 – 2003 Adrian Burke
2001 – 2002 Henry J. Saville
2000 – 2001 David Simpson
1999 – 2000 Timothy Quin
1998 – 1999 Pierce H. Kent
1997 – 1998 Tom Griffin
1996 – 1997 Leo O’Donnell
1995 – 1996 Niall William Deasy
1994 – 1995 Joseph T. Gannon
1993 – 1994 G. Anthony Cameron
1992 – 1993 Niall David O’Carroll
1991 – 1992 Thomas James O’Higgins
1990 – 1991 William H. deF. Smyth
1989 – 1990 James R. Gallagher
1988 – 1989 Eugene Greene
1987 – 1988 Alan J. Gibson, O.B.E
1986 – 1987 Cecil W. Donovan
1985 – 1986 Maurice Tempany
1984 – 1985 Alan S Ridler
1983 – 1984 Margaret Downes, LL.D
1982 – 1983 Francis J. Barrett
1981 – 1982 Noel Stewart
1980 – 1981 Noel M. MacMahon
1979 – 1980 William M. Carson, C.B.E.
1978 – 1979 Gerald P. Dempsey
1977 – 1978 J. Purvis H. Bruce
1976 – 1977 Donal P. Flinn
1975 – 1976 Alexander J. Spain
1974 – 1975 Sir Eric W. McDowell, C.B.E.
1973 – 1974 Cornelius F. Smith
1972 – 1973 Charles H. Nicholson
1971 – 1972 Niall Crowley, LL.D.
1970 – 1971 Darwin H. Templeton, C.B.E.
1969 – 1970 Alan W. Warnock
1968 – 1969 Sir T. Desmond Lorimer
1967 – 1968 Niall V. Hogan
1966 – 1967 A. Stanley Boyd
1965 – 1966 Howard W. Robinson
1964 – 1965 John Love
1963 – 1964 Robert P.F. Olden
1962 – 1963 Rollo E. McClure, M.B.E.
1961 – 1962 Alfred E Dawson
1960 – 1961 George E Cameron
1959 – 1960 David Watson
1958 – 1959 James Walker, C.B.E.
1957 – 1958 G. Francis Klingner
1955 – 1957 Frank Cleland
1953 – 1955 Patrick Butler
1951 – 1953 Herbert E. A. Addy
1949 – 1951 Patrick J Purtill
1947 – 1949 Wilfred H. Fitzsimons
1945 – 1947 Francis H. Pim
1943 – 1945 John Bailey
1941 – 1943 R. Stanley Stokes
1939 – 1941 Trevor Montgomery
1937 – 1939 Gabriel Brock
1935 – 1937 Hugh Boyd M.B.E.
1933 – 1935 Thomas Geoghegan
1931 – 1933 Samuel Smyth
1929 – 1931 Charles E.L. Olden
1927 –1929 Arthur H. Muir
1925 – 1927 John Mackie
1923 – 1925 William Mayes
1920 – 1923 J. Harold Pim
1917 – 1920 Stewart Blacker Quin
1915 – 1917 David Telford
1914 – 1915 Robert Walsh
1913 –1914 William Fitzsimons
1912 – 1913 Michael Crowley
1910 – 1912 John McCullough
1900 – 1910 Robert Stokes
1897 – 1900 W. Ringrose Atkins, J.P.
1894 – 1897 Martin Shaw
1890 – 1894 Henry Browne, J.P.
1888 – 1890 Sir Robert Gardner, J.P.

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