Flossie Donnelly
Flossie Donnelly is an Irish marine environmentalist. A secondary school student, Donnelly was the first to bring seabins to Ireland, securing funds for two of the devices which remove plastic trash from bodies of water. Recently she appeared on RTE News to promote her work.
Life
Donnelly grew up in Sandycove, Co Dublin. Her activism first began on a family trip to Thailand when she was eight years old. Whilst on holiday, she was taken aback by the amount of plastic pollution she observed on the beaches she visited. She spent a considerable amount of time on that trip collecting rubbish from the sea and bringing it back to the hotel her family were staying at. On her return to Ireland, she noticed more and more rubbish being washed up on local beaches and felt an urge to share her passion around protecting marine life and to educate others about plastic pollution. She has had several press mentions for her environmental conservation work since then and has been dubbed Ireland's Greta Thunberg.Education
Donnelly is a secondary school student in Booterstown, Co Dublin. She has previously studied in two primary schools one in Brussels and a French school in Dublin.Donnelly is dyslexic.