West Region Annual Dinner
I had the pleasure of attending the annual dinner for the West Region, in the Ardilaun Hotel in Galway, hosted by the regional chairman John Colleran.The Mayor of Galway Declan McDonnell also...
View ArticleInnovation Forum
Yesterday evening I chaired the Innovation Forum at Clyde Rd. Just over 100 people attended, with several more webex'ing in. The webex is available for playback here at Engineers TV.Our first...
View ArticleSir Bernard Crossland Lecture
I had the honour of being one of four keynote speakers and panellists at the 9th Sir Bernard Crossland Lecture series, in Queens University Belfast this evening, on the theme of "Engineering...
View ArticleAtlantic Corridor Conference 2010
On Thursday, I attended and spoke at the 2010 Atlantic Corridor conference in the Tullamore Court Hotel. Funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs, the organisation has built links between...
View ArticleNorthern Region Annual Dinner Dance
Rounding off a busy week, I attended the Northern Region annual dinner dance in the Ramada Hotel, Shaws Bridge, Belfast.Gerry Cawley, chair of the Northern Region, presided and about 250 people...
View ArticleSmart Futures Seminar
This evening, I spoke at the Smart Futures Seminar being hosted at Clyde Rd, in conjunction with our STEPS team, ICT Ireland, Discover Science and Engineering, and Fasttrack to IT. The main...
View ArticlePresidential Address - London
I gave my Presidential Address as a guest of our GB region this evening under the leadership of Catherine O'Sullivan, at the Institution of Civil Engineers headquarters in Westminster. About 50...
View ArticleFinance Committee Meeting; Executive Committee Meeting
This evening, we held our regular Finance Committee Meeting, followed by Executive, at Clyde Road.In the Finance meeting, we reviewed our management accounts for February. Revenues and costs to...
View ArticleTadhg Walshe
It was with great sadness that I attended the funeral mass for Tadhg Walshe this morning, along with other members of Executive and Council. Tadhg attended our Executive meeting just last Thursday...
View ArticleFinance Committee Meeting
Yesterday evening, we held a scheduled meeting of the Finance Committee at Clyde Rd.We spend a considerable amount of time examining the draft annual accounts for 2009 together with our auditor. The...
View ArticleJoint Council & Executive Meeting
This morning we held a scheduled joint meeting of Executive and Council at Clyde Rd, from 10am-1pm.We opened the meeting by holding a minute's silence in memory of Tadhg Walshe, Council and Executive...
View ArticleICE Presidential Address
On Friday 16th last, we were honoured to have Prof. Paul Jowitt of the Institution of Civil Engineers, visit us and deliver his presidential address. I had previously met Paul in Belfast and he was...
View ArticleAnnual Conference
Well, the dust has settled after a great annual conference in Cork last thursday and friday. Well over 300 people attended, and I suspect the final figure may be as high as 350.Last monday (19th),...
View ArticleLaunch of HSE Medical Device & Equipment Management Policy
I attended by invitation and spoke at the launch this morning at the HSE Phoenix house building, of the HSE's new policy document on medical device and equipment, covering procurement, operation and...
View ArticleBicentennial of Robert Mallet, the father of seismology
This evening, I had the pleasure of chairing a meeting of the Heritage Society at Clyde Rd, and also streamed to the internet and will soon be available for playback on Engineers TV.The presentation...
View ArticleTCD-UCD Innovation Alliance
TCD & UCD hosted an all-day design innovation today at Foster Place. As President of Engineers Ireland, I chaired a one hour discussion panel at lunch time with Mark Dyer, Tony Fagan, Eugene...
View ArticleDIT Bolton Street
This afternoon, I gave a guest lecture via the kind invitation of Mike Murphy of DIT to about 350 engineering students at DIT Bolton Street. I spoke briefly about my own career, and then addressed...
View ArticleWorld Intellectual Property Day
This evening, I gave a guest presentation as President of Engineers Ireland at an event organised by William Frys to celebrate World Intellectual Property Day. I spoke about some of my experiences...
View ArticleMidlands Region Conferring and Presidential Address
Yesterday evening I was the kind guest of the Midlands Region at their conferring of registered status (Chartered and Associate) on a number of their members, at the Clonmore House hotel in Tullamore....
View ArticleWestern Region Conferring and Presidential Address
This evening I was the kind guest of the Western Region at their professional conferring ceremony in the Clayton Hotel in Galway. I was particularly delighted that amongst the twenty members conferred...
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