Gavin Falk

Community & Voluntary

Bandon-Kinsale Municipal District

Innishannon Community Hall

Gavin is community activist and has been involved in numerous local community groups, in a purely voluntary capacity for many years. ( estimate over 30 years). A past chair of the local scout group, a current Hon chair & previous Hon. Treasurer of the local Community / Parish hall, a member of the local group “Friends of Innishannon”, a member of the Southern Region Drug & Alcohol task force ( for over 10 years), a member & previous Hon. vice chair of the County Cork OPC (old person’s committee), a previous elected member of the Community & Voluntary forum for the Bandon / Kinsale electoral area, and recently an elected member of the Cork County PPN for the new Bandon/ Kinsale municipal district. Gavin has tremendous experience having had over 50 different jobs in his working life. He is an ideas man & thinker… possibly partially due to Einstein featuring in his family tree! He was ultimately responsible for the introduction of biodegradable shopping bags nationally.