Since 2010 Bro Finnian holds the position of Provincial Secretary, working at Granada House, Stillorgan, while residing as Prior of the Lucena Brothers Community in Rathgar.  He is a Professed member of the Order since 1963 and has served in many roles including Provincial Councillor and Prior.

Trained as a nurse in psychiatry and general medicine, over the years he was appointed to posts of leadership in the Order’s Services in Stillorgan, New Jersey, and Belfast and in AMRI – when it was CMRS – in a health care office which he set up as a resource for Religious involved in healthcare in the 1980s.

 Currently he is also a Director of Saint John of God Research Foundation and Chair of EmployAbility and Saint John of God Association (N.I.).