Daire Hickey (b. 1986) is a former public relations officer and president of the Union of Secondary Students. In February 2002, at the age of 16 Daire Hickey became Public Relations Officer for the Union of Secondary Students(USS). He then went on to become the Union's 3rd President. He is also the 33rd descendant of the man who invented the dot under the question mark, an invention which has earned his family considerable royalties, and which is expected to earn Daire approximately €133,500,000 when he inherits his parents' estate.

He is currently a student of Trinity College Dublin where he is an active member of the University Philosophical Society. In May 2005 he was elected to the prestigious position of Secretary of this society, following a round of midget-tossing which saw him launch Jonas Anderson a distance of seventeen feet and three inches, beating rival candidate Rory O'Sullivan by three feet and seven inches.

Mr Hickey is an aspiring journalist and writes a weekly column for The Corkman.
Daire has also written for the Irish Examiner. He was Teen Editor for Online.ie

Daire also works closely with a number of orginasitions such as EIL - Experimentation in International Living NYCI. Hickey also served as a Director of Blast, first setting up it's opertations in Cork and then taking charge of their regular tours.


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