Child and Family Services
Safer Children, Stronger Families, Healthier Communities
Child and Family Services at Bessborough provide integrated community and residential services offering family support, social work and clinical psychology input to parents and children. Our ‘family preservation’ ethos aims to help parents and children remain safely together where possible and to reduce the volume of children removed into state care while promoting lifelong positive outcomes.
Parent and
Infant unit
Infant unit
The Lime Tree Project
Consultancy and Assessment
Parenting Groups

Marie O’Riordan
Child and Family Services Manager

Jonathan Horgan
Child and Family Services Manager

Dr Alasdair Ross
Clinical Psychologist

Infant Mental Health Specialist

Isobel De Búrca
Assistant Psychologist

Elaine Spillane
Acting Family Development Practitioner

Obi Ibebugwu
Family Development Practitioner

Susan MacConaill
Family Development Practitioner

Pamela Massey
Family Development Practitioner

Sheila Flanagan
Family Development Practitioner

Sean Kelleher
Family Development Practitioner

Ellen Bowen
Family Development Practitioner

Nicole O’Connor
Family Development Practitioner

Lena McCarthy
Family Development Practitioner

Kemi Oti
Family Development Assistant

Margo Ahern
Family Development Assistant

Caoilfhionn O’Donovan
Family Development Practitioner

Niamh Garde
Family Development Practitioner