Cllr Jacqueline Burke

Jacqueline Burke has lived all her life in Dún Laoghaire/Rathdown.  She went to school in Cabinteely, trained and worked as a nurse in St. Michael’s Hospital Dún Laoghaire and St. John of God Hospital Stillorgan.  She then specialised in cardiovascular nursing in St. Vincent’s University Hospital.  She was later a pioneer in the revolution of nursing education, moving to the universities spending eighteen years in nursing education in UCD, where she is still Emerita Assistant Professor.

Her late husband, Martin, was pivotal in developing the St John of God Lucena CAMHS nursing services that helped so many children and adolescents in Dún Laoghaire and beyond.