{"id":8,"date":"2018-06-18T02:22:35","date_gmt":"2018-06-18T02:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wordpress\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2019-06-27T20:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T20:00:50","slug":"derek-lehane","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/?page_id=8","title":{"rendered":"Derek Lehane"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content clear\">\n<p>Derek was born in Cork and attended The National University of Ireland (University College Cork) and the University of Dublin (Trinity College). He serves as a Business Mentor and Business Adviser to start-up businesses in medical devices and diagnostics in the Philadelphia region. He divides his time between the United States (Wilmington, Delaware) and Ireland (Cork).<\/p>\n<p>Derek has been a member of the American License Plate Collectors Association (ALPCA) since 1978. His membership number is <b><i>2441.<\/i><\/b> He attends regional meets in the US North-East and Chesapeake regions. He has attended the Annual Conventions held in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2016, in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania in 2018, and in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He is a contributor to ALPCA\u2019s <b><i>Plates Magazine<\/i><\/b> and has authored four articles:\u00a0 <b><i>License Plates of Colombia <\/i><\/b>(Plates Magazine, Vol 63, No 6, p 30,\u00a0 2017);\u00a0<b><i>On the Road in New Zealand <\/i><\/b>(Plates Magazine, Vol 64, No 4, pp 26-27, 2018),\u00a0<em><strong>1903-86 Series Plates<\/strong><\/em><em><strong>\u00a0of the Republic of Ireland, <\/strong><\/em><em>(<\/em>Plates Magazine, Vol 64, No 5, pp 10-11, 2018),and\u00a0<em><strong>115 Years&#8230;&#8230;.and Still Counting! License Plates of Northern Ireland\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><em>(<\/em>Plates Magazine, Vol 65, No 1, p21,2019).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"901\" srcset=\"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2-945x1260.jpg 945w, http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Picture2.jpg 1376w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Derek was born in Cork and attended The National University of Ireland (University College Cork) and the University of Dublin (Trinity College). He serves as a Business Mentor and Business Adviser to start-up businesses in medical devices and diagnostics in&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/?page_id=8\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dereklehane.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}