PPI Ignite Network at UL

Associate Professor Molly Manning is a speech and language therapist, health researcher and Academic Lead for PPI Ignite at UL. Her work examines how inclusive approaches to research and decision-making can improve the quality, relevance and impact of evidence. She develops methods that enable people often underrepresented in research and healthcare to shape knowledge, services and policy. Her interests include participatory health research, communication disability and aphasia. She is Co-Lead of the international Aphasia Psychological Care Research Network. Her work centres on making evidence better by making participation possible.

Martin Quinn is a native of Bansha, Co. Tipperary, and a respected community leader whose voluntary service has spanned more than 40 years. He served as National President of Muintir na Tíre from 2008 to 2011 and was named Tipperary Person of the Year in 2012. A stroke survivor and advocate, Martin is committed to raising awareness of stroke prevention and recovery.

He has chaired the Canon Hayes Recreation Centre, West Tipperary Mental Health Association, Citizens Information Service, and South Tipperary LEADER Development Company. He organises the annual Tipperary International Peace Award.

Dr Paul O’Mahoney is Co-Applicant for UL PPI Ignite. Paul is a Research Support Officer in the Health Research Institute (HRI) at the University of Limerick. He joined UL from Trinity College Dublin, where he was Operations Manager with the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), having previously worked in research and management roles in national NGOs and in academia in the humanities.

Lora is a healthcare professional and a patient advocate. Lora Ruth established Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Ireland, a national patient and parent support and advocacy organisation for raising awareness and advancement of patients’ quality of life with Sickle Cell disease and Thalassaemia disease in Ireland.

She is also the co-founder and managing coordinator of Migrant Health Alliance Ireland, an umbrella organization bringing together various community  groups, healthcare agencies, various charity organizations, healthcare professionals, and researchers to improve health access, equity, and health  promotion within the migrant communities.

Su Huschke is a Research Fellow in the School of Allied Health, University of Limerick. Her research has focused on undocumented migrants’ exclusion from healthcare in Germany (2008-2012); sex work and stigma in the North of Ireland (2014) and South Africa (2015-2017); women’s experiences of the over-medicalisation of birth (2018-2026); and ethnic minority women’s reproductive autonomy (since 2025).

Su has been involved in antiracist and feminist grassroots activism for many years, and she is the co-founder of the Irish Birth Movement and a member of the Birth Rights Alliance Ireland.