Jane O’Regan worked as a nurse in the UK before returning to Ireland with her husband Con and their four children, Tom, Alice, Billy and Nella in 1994 where the family now live in Co Limerick.   In 2007 Billy took part in a two way language exchange for 6 months, following this successful exchange the French Director of the company which organized Billy’s exchange asked Jane to become the Irish Director of a new Language Exchange Company “which facilitated Transition Year Exchanges between Ireland and France. This Company grew steadily over the last 2 years and now Jane is now pleased to continue her work with “TY Europe” which facilitates 2 way exchanges between Irish, French, German, Spanish teenagers.

Jane O'Rgan   Con O'Regan

TERESA Francés Gómez is a law graduate, she was born in Barcelona, and now lives in Talavera de la Reina ( Toledo). She is married to Victor, Sara’s Father , Teresa and Victor also have two other little children Pablo and Candela. In 2008 Sara took part in a two way language exchange for 3 months with an Irish family Following this successful exchange Teresa became the Spanish Director of TY Spain with Jane and helped to arrange a number of successful Irish/Spanish exchange/home-stays.  TY Spain has now been incorporated into TY Europe and Teresa continues to work as an Agent for TY Europe.

TERESA Francés Gómez

Margit Steiner is German and she has lived in France, near Bordeaux, since 1994. She has 3 children, Louisa, Marianne and Gabriel (16, 14 and 7 years old). For nearly ten years she worked for a non-profit Language Exchange organization.  Now Margit works as a translator and interpreter, she speaks French, English and Spanish. She has her own company www.ask-and-smile.com and is very enthusiastic to cooperate with TY Europe helping to organize exchanges and home-stays between Irish, French and German teenagers."

Margit Steiner

Michaela Brandenburg is from Germany but is now living in France with her husband and 4 children.  3 of Michaela’s children have done 6 month French exchange’s.  After studying theology, sociology and psychology at university Michaela has been working in various education projects for the last 7 years and 2 years ago founded the exchange organisation Kids for Europe.  www.kids-for-europe.eu