Media and press centre

Extern Media Relations

Get in touch

Extern’s communications team aims to be responsive, open and honest.

Our office is staffed from Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Please telephone +44 (0) 28 9084 0555 or you can send us an email. 

For urgent out-of-hours media enquiries please telephone +44 (0)7739 977095.

Lisa McElroy
Head of Communications and Marketing
Tel:      +44 (0)28 90 840555
M:        07739 977095
Email: [email protected]

Matthew McCreary
External Communications Officer
Tel:      +44 (0)28 9084 0555
M:        +44 (0)7484 503 552
Email: [email protected]

Ian Dinsmore
Digital Communications Officer
Tel:      +44 (0)28 9084 0555
M:        +44 (0)7545 488882
Email: [email protected]

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Extern Experts

As the leading social justice charity working across the island of Ireland, Extern provides a service for journalists from the print, broadcast and online media who may need to seek expert comment or briefings from our staff in relation to the areas we work in, including:

• Housing and Homelessness
• Drug and alcohol misuse (U18s and adults)
• Mental Health and living with the impact of suicide (U18s and adults)
• Refugee Support/Asylum Seekers (Families and individuals)
• Traveller community
• Justice services (U18s and adults)
• Skills and employability

In Extern we appreciate that members of the media may benefit from an informal chat or face-to-face meeting in order to aid their knowledge when reporting on an issue. We are always more than happy to facilitate these, so please get in touch.

We also act as the main contact point for members of the media who may need to seek information about the organisation from time-to-time.