Winter Workshop "Back to Basics - A Plan for Survival"

louth | miscellaneous | event notice Wednesday January 06, 2010 16:05 by Sean Crudden - CEHG sean at cooleyehg dot com Jenkinstown, Dundalk, Co Louth 0879739945

10th Annual Cooley Environmental and Health Group Winter Workshop

The 10th annual winter workshop organised by Cooley Environmental and Health Group takes place in The Strand Hotel, Omeath, Co Louth, on Satruday 23 January 2010. It starts at 14.00 and concludes at 17.30. It will be followed by a celebratory dinner in the hotel.

Dermot Mooney, Titilola Ossai, Archbishop Hynes

The title of the workshop is a phrase coined by Dermot Mooney "Back to Basics - A Plan for Survival" and it has obvious topicality at this time of looming depression.

The program is as follows:-

Workshop: BACK to BASICS – A plan for Survival; Venue Strand Hotel Omeath Co Louth Saturday 23rd January 2010 from 2 PM - 5.30 PM

Facilitator: M D Hynes, (042) 9373525. Summarizers: S Crudden (087) 9739 945 and Dermot Mooney (048) 37507506.

The following have agreed to speak at the workshop to date:

Archbishop Michael D Hynes OMD (Facilitator) Introduction

Mr Dermot Mooney and Mr Seán Crudden Summarizers

1. Mr Eric Hynes (Historical account of changing world over the years) (086) 1211 138

2. Mr Patrick Ferrigan (Public Transport) (087) 270 1152

3. Mr Kevin Hynes ( Psychotic impact of Recession) (087) 6327924

4. Ms Anne Muldowney (Psychotherapy) (087) 9624 779

5. Mr Michael Corrigan (Agriculture & Horticulture)

6. Mr Don Johnston (Education) (042) 9371772

7. Cllr Martin Bellew (Education)

8. Mr Harry Lee (Community Radio and the Downturn )

9. Cllr: Dr Conor Keelan (Economics) (087) 777 3200

10. Cllr Jim Loughran (Recession and Community Alert) (042) 9371889

11. Ms Karen Smyth NILGA (Head of Policy)

12. Mr William Jones (Public Houses and the Downturn) (042) 9375 270

13. Mrs Christina O’Boyle (Impact of the Recession on Nursing and Disability) (042) 933 5705

14. Pastor Yinka Dixon (Culture and Religion) (087) 757 2947/ 087 2372 365

15. Cllr Eamonn O’Boyle (An Educationist and Cllr’s Perspective) (042) 933 5705

16. Mr Michael Murphy (SVDP and the Recession)

17. Prof Dennis Pringle NUI Maynooth

18. Deputy Arthur Morgan TD (to be confirmed) (087) 833 4113

The summarizers Messer’s Seán Crudden and Dermot Mooney will give conclusions.

The photograph posted with this notice was taken this morning outside Dundalk Media Centre after Dermot Mooney and Archbishop Hynes as well as Sean Crudden (all members of Cooley Environmental and Health Group) had taken part in a radio discussion with Harry Lee broadcasting on Dundalk FM 100. Titiola Ossai is the receptionist in Dundalk Media Centre.

The Strand Hotel is situated on the seafront overlooking Carlingford Lough. To get there turn right when you drive down to the pier in Omeath. The Strand Hotel is situated about 100m along the shore road from the pier.

If you wish to attend the workshop you are more than welcome but please let one or other of the organisers, whose details are given in the article above, know in advance.