Neville Keery (born 5 May 1939) is a writer and activist and has had a career as a journalist, administrative officer, senator, and European Commission official.
He also wrote for the newspaper Trinity News, and became the leading university debater, awarded the gold and silver medals of the College Historical Society.
In 1967 he was promoted to Assistant Secretary of TCD, was conferred with the university's MA degree, and ran unsuccessfully as a Fianna Fáil local election candidate.
In 1972 Keery was appointed to Fianna Fáil headquarters as Research Officer and Secretary to the Into Europe, Article 44 and Votes at 18 referendum campaigns.
[4] In 1974 he was seconded as Deputy Chef de Cabinet in the office of Patrick Hillery, vice-president of the European Commission, and moved with his family to Brussels.
He became an Extern Examiner for the degree programme in European Studies of the National Institute for Higher Education, Limerick until 1981.
Throughout this period he was involved in a wide range of administrative projects, including the creation of the spokesperson's database, RAPID, the production of a film about the spokesperson's service, the organisation of an Assises Europennes de la Presse (Luxembourg 1991), and the development of EUROLIB, the group of EU institution libraries.