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(contracted; show full)Bratislava | date = 2010-6-7 | access date = 2010-6-10}}</ref>.  He is a retired former UN official who served most recently as the [[Resident Coordinator]] of the [[United Nations]] system in [[Ukraine]], from  30 September 2004 until 31 March 2009, and previously in the same capacity in [[Serbia]]-[[Montenegro]].  He worked in UN service for 32 years <ref>[[http://www.mexicodiplomatico.org/art_diplomatico_especial/irlanda_francis_martin_odonnell.pdf] / Biographical note, see link]</ref>
, and was therefore one of the longest-serving and most senior Irish citizens in UN service worldwide.

==Background==
He was born in [[1954]] in [[Dublin]], [[Ireland]], and is descended from [[O'Donnell dynasty|O'Donnells]] of [[Ardfert]], previously of [[Tyrconnell]]. Brought up largely in Ireland, he was also schooled in [[Jerusalem]] and [[Nazareth]] in 1965-1966, at a time when his late father, [[Patrick Denis O'Donnell]], served briefly as a United Nations military observer with [[UNTSO]], the oldest UN peace-keeping operation in the world<ref>''An Appreciation'&#(contracted; show full)[[Category:Alumni of University College Dublin]]
[[Category:United Nations officials]]
[[Category:Knights of Malta]]
[[Category:Ambassadors of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta]]
[[Category:Irish humanitarians]]

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