Professional Career
Lydon was educated at Saint Eunan's College, Letterkenny, County Donegal; University College Galway; University College Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. His Bachelors Degree was in Sociology and English and his postgraduate work was in the area of Education and Psychology. In addition Lydon has worked as a Consulting Psychologist. He was for a number of years non-executive director of Connsbrook Productions Limited and also a non-executive of Corona Holidays Limited in Dublin.
He has published a number of papers in professional journals mostly in the area of Alcoholism or Psychopathology in Adolescents. He was the first Psychologist in Ireland to be awarded a Council of Europe Medical Fellowship in 1977 in order to go abroad to study “Residential Treatment of Disturbed Adolescents”.
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