Fr Eamon Aylward SS.CC. is the Executive Director of the Irish Missionary. Apart from providing an invaluable secretarial service to its members at home and overseas, the IMU support and facilitates a great deal of mutual sharing and networking of resources and knowledge gained through experience.

Some of the main activities of the IMU are:

• Communicating relevant information to Missionaries on a range of topics.
  Assisting Missionaries returning to Ireland.
• Creating awareness on social and economic Justice issues especially in matters and areas related to Mission.
• Creating awareness of Mission through fulltime programmes like Mission Alive and Seminars on Mission.
• Speaking on Justice issues on behalf of the Justice Commission of the IMU.
  Coordinating joint ventures of the IMU member organisations, such as the Coordinated Parish Promotions Programme.
• Liaising with Government bodies, Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO's) and others on issues which are of common interest
• Facilitating Insurance cover for long and short term Missionaries.