EGFSN Member

EGFSN Member

Frank Mulvihill



Mr. Frank Mulvihill served as President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors from 2006 to 2008. He is a practicing Guidance Counsellor at Coláiste Chríost Rí in Cork, the Presentation Brothers school where he received his own second-level education. Having graduated from Cork Institute of Technology with a Diploma in Food Science and Technology in 1983, he then acquired his degree in Science at University College Cork. Later he completed his Higher Diploma in Education and his Masters Degree in Education at UCC. He also holds a First Class Honours Higher Diploma in Guidance Counselling from UCC and Level 7 qualification in Equine Science from the University of Limerick.

A Former Science teacher, he also has many years of experience in Business and was responsible for sending over 340 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Bosnia and Croatia during the war there from 1991 –1999. He is the owner of  Waterfall Stud farm, a sport horse breeding and production facility in Co. Cork.

Frank is Married to Ursula and has two boys, Colm and Seán. He is the holder of three Munster Colleges Gaelic football medals and one County Colleges medal. He also represented Cork at soccer.  One of his greatest achievements was as trainer of Fáilte Ireland’s senior Young Chef of the Future winners in 2004, when two of his students won the competition without having studied Home Economics and without having a cooker in their school!  He remarks that “with talent and ambition anything is possible”.


Curriculum Vitae:

  • Qualifications; B.Sc  H Dip Ed., M.Ed, HDip Guidance and Counselling.
  • Guidance Counsellor at Coláiste Chríost Rí,  Cork.
  • Elected President of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors 2006
  • Chairperson of Cork Branch Institute of Guidance Counsellors 2000-2005.
  • Chairperson of IGC National Conference 2003.
  • Guest Speaker to IBEC/Pharmachem Ireland’s seminar on ‘Promoting Careers in Science’, 2004.
  • IGC representative at the Irish EU Presidency Conference on Lifelong Guidance, 2004.
  • Ireland representative at Finish EU Presidency Conference on Lifelong Guidance Policies and Systems: Building the Stepping Stones, Jyvaskyla, 2006.
  • Has represented the IGC on various consultative bodies (including CIT Strategic Planning, UCC Departmental evaluations, CIT Delegated Authority)
  • Guest speaker to National Educational Psychological Service (N.E.P.S.) on ‘Collaboration between Guidance Counsellors and NEPS Psychologists’, 2004.
  • Keynote speaker on ‘Unlocking the Mystery of Applying to College’ at Career Options (Cork), October 2005.
  • Lecturer on Psychometric Testing, UCC’s Postgraduate Diploma in Guidance and Counselling.
  • Formerly facilitator of annual in-service courses on Science and Computing to Primary teachers.
  • Representative of the Presentation Brothers (trustees) and Chairman of Board of Management of Scoil Chríost Rí, Turner’s Cross, Cork.