Lions Clubs in Ireland have elected Teresa Dineen from Cork as Governor of the new District 133 which includes all of the 108 Clubs on the island of Ireland.
Teresa has just returned from the Lions Clubs International Centenary Congress in Chicago where she was sworn in following her participation in an induction programme involving 700 District Governors from all over the world.
She will now lead 2,400 members of Lions Clubs in Ireland as they celebrate the Centenary of the foundation of Lions Clubs International in 1917.
Teresa is also the inaugural Governor of District 133 which has been established to represent all Lions Clubs in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Until now Lions Clubs in Ireland were part of a Multiple District which also included Great Britain.
Teresa has been a member of Cork Lions Club since 2006. She has served as Regional Chairman and District Secretary and as Co-Ordinator of the Lions Clubs annual holiday for 600 senior citizens held in Trabolgan, Co. Cork.
A native of Ballinhassig, Co. Cork where she lives with her partner Declan, Teresa is the mother of three children and has six grand children.
She hopes to see Lions Clubs in Ireland grow during its centenary year by recruiting new members.
‘We are ordinary people who manage to do extraordinary things and we welcome men and women from all walks of life. We invite anyone who would like to serve their local, national or the world community by engaging in our many projects, to contact their local Lions Club’, she said.
Lions Club District 133 has a wide range of projects which include an annual food appeal, diabetes screening, a senior citizens holiday, youth programmes and respite weekends for carers while Lions clubs also run hundreds of service projects for their local communities.
