Date: Sunday 10 June, 2012

To mark the beginning of the Eucharistic Congress on Sunday 10 June, the Cathedral will “relocate” to Pearse Street for the celebration of Mass at 11am. We are very grateful to the County Council, Gardaí and others for helping with this plan. The music for the Mass will be provided by the Cathedral Choir, Mullingar Town Band and the newly formed Cathedral Gospel Choir. We will be asking the children in primary schools to join us for the Mass and to make flags at home or at school for the occasion. Following the Mass, which will be celebrated by Fr Padraig McMahon with Bishop Smith presiding, a procession of the Blessed Sacrament will make its way through the town, leading to the steps of the Cathedral where the Bishop will give Benediction. There will be no 12.30pm Mass on that day.

Place: Annebrook Hotel
Date: Wednesday May 16, 2012
Time: From 8:45 AM – 11:00 AM

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Can you afford 2 hours to develop 5 simple but powerful ideas on how you can grow your business??

Mullingar Chamber of Commerce in association with Campion Insurance are inviting you & all other leading business leaders to join us for an opportunity to network with the local business community & develop 5 simple ideas that can help your business that day.

The guest speaker is leading business development & sales training consultant, Dermot McConkey. Dermot is a highly enthusiastic motivational speaker who has addressed conferences in the USA, Cyprus, Malta, Scotland and England as well as here in Ireland.

Our special guest is Mullingar man Gerry Duffy, a motivational speaker and Business Performance Coach. Gerry has many passions one of which is extreme endurance sports. In the Summer of 2011 he completed and won the inaugural DECA Enduroman UK Challenge completing 10 IRONMAN distance triathons in 10 days. This involved swimming 24 miles, cycling 1,160 miles, running 10 marathons and all in 10 days.

This will be in interactive breakfast session that will also allow local business network & we look forward to welcoming you on the day.

Mullingar Chamber of Commerce represents your voice within the community, among local businesses, as well as with Westmeath County Council through our scheduled monthly meetings; we represent all sizes and types of business and have proven to be pro active in supporting the business community. For this special event Mullingar Chamber will offer discount of 40% to the end of 2012 to new members who sign up on the day.

Please join us for refreshments at 8.45am to allow for a prompt start at 9am.

Mullingar Chamber has today (14/05/12) called for a Yes vote in the EU Fiscal Stability Treaty Referendum. The call comes following a meeting of the Chambers Ireland network representing companies employing more than 500,000 employees with An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny T.D. at Government Buildings on Monday 14th of May.

Speaking following the meeting, Pat Whelan President of Mullingar Chamber said “The business community in Ireland is resolutely in favour of a Yes vote in the forthcoming referendum as a means of underpinning the restoration of confidence. With confidence and greater levels of economic activity, we can secure the jobs already in place, support local business and create a better environment for new business start-ups. This will help to deliver the growth so vitally needed to promote recovery.”

‘As President of Mullingar Chamber, I am calling for Yes vote as another step towards a brighter economic future for my work colleagues, my town, my region and the country as a whole,” Pat concluded.

Prepared By: John O’Donovan
Date: 10th February 2012

Introduction

This report has been commissioned to review the activities and outcomes to date of the ‘Creating the New Midlands Economy’ initiative and to make recommendations as to how the initiative might proceed. The initiative was organised by Bord na Móna and Atlantic Corridor. Bord na Móna have funded the generation of this report.
The Author, John O’Donovan, is currently a business consultant based in Tullamore and attended both workshops referenced in the report. John has twenty three years experience in the multi-national Medical Devices manufacturing industry, most recently with Boston Scientific Tullamore as the Director of Operations from 1994 to 2009. John has a B.Eng degree from the National University of Ireland, Galway and qualified with a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in 2010 from Trinity College Dublin.

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Creating New Midland Economy Report – (1.43MB | PDF)

Unlocking the True Potential of Your Business

Includes Networking Opportunities, Mentoring and Excellent Speakers

Guest SPEAKERS: Gerry Duffy, John Maguire & Susan Hayes

Date: Tuesday, June 19th 2012
Venue: Radisson Hotel, Athlone
Time: 9.30am to 2pm
Fee: €10

How to Book Your Place:

Bookings can be made online at www.westmeath-enterprise.ie
Email info@westmeath-enterprise.ie for more information.

Phone: (044) 9349222

Agenda

• 9.30am – Registration
• 9.45am – Event opening
• 9.50am – Formal Facilitated Networking
• A facilitated ‘meet and greet’ session for all attendees will take place – where you will have the opportunity to meet the other seminar delegates and promoter your business.
• 10.45am – Susan Hayes – www.thepositiveeconomist.com
• Strategies for Women in Business – Susan, the Positive Economist, will present on overcoming barriers in business and developing strategies for your business.
• 11.30am – Tea & Coffee
• 11.45am – John Maguire – www.johnmaguire.ie, How to survive and thrive when money is tight – John McGuire is a serial entrepreneur, professional investor and is best known for presenting the RTE 2 show ‘I’m An Adult Get Me Out Of Here’.
• 12.30pm – Gerry Duffy – www.32marathons.com, Unlocking the True Potential of Your Business – A self employed professional motivational speaker, entrepreneur and writer, Gerry’s’ sporting CV is filled accomplishments such as running 32 marathons in 32 days around Ireland as well as completing and winning the inaugural UK DECA End roman Ironman distance challenge in 2011
• 1.30pm – Panel Q& A
• 1.45pm – Lunch & Event Close

Mentoring

Free, confidential one to one mentoring sessions with experienced business mentors will be available on the morning. Delegates, who would like to discuss some aspect of their business, be that getting feedback on a new idea or getting input on a particular aspect of the business can avail of a mentor session. The tone of the mentor clinics is to be informal, friendly and helpful. Appointments will be available from 9.30 onwards for the morning.
Registration for a Mentor Clinic – places are limited and will be allowed on a first come first serve basis – book early to avoid disappointment.

NB: The sessions will be managed by appointment only, so delegates will have to register for a one-to-one mentor session on the Westmeath County Enterprise Board Website– www.westmeath-enterprise.ie. Only one mentoring session per delegate.

• Mentors – Area of Expertise
• Finance
• Sales & Marketing
• Legal
• Taxation
• Start Your Own Business

Speaker Profiles

Susan Hayes is Managing Director of Hayes Culleton and co-author of the very recently published “Positive Economics”, a Leaving Certificate Economics textbook. Hayes Culleton Ltd is an international financial training company that specializes in eLearning development and delivery. We work with training companies, firms with a financial training need and governmental organizations to achieve high levels of learner engagement and retention with exciting, interactive and rich media content as well as boost efficiency and scale on the part of the co-ordinator and trainer. In 2008, Susan wrote a digitised module called “Introducing Wall Street to the Classroom” to make the stock market approachable and accessible for second level students. She regularly contributes to the national and international media including The Sunday Times (Malta), RTE, Newstalk and Today FM (Ireland), as “The Positive Economist” on matters relating to economics, the stock market and entrepreneurship.

John McGuire is a serial entrepreneur, professional investor and is best known for presenting the RTE 2 show ‘I’m An Adult Get Me Out Of Here’. John is the Chairman of six successful businesses from financial services & Property through to insurance and hospitality. John has weathered the recession despite being hit by a perfect economic storm which threatened to decimate his business interests. Although facing bankruptcy in 2009 & 2010 John invested his way out of the downturn and opened or commenced trading in new companies the height of the crisis creating 30 new jobs in the process. John expects to increase the number employed by his group to 50 by late 2011. Despite the enormous setbacks he personally incurred, John considers the global recession to be a once in a lifetime opportunity to aggressively expand. John got his first taste of television when an article on him in the Irish Times was spotted by Independent Pictures Production Company in 2005. They subsequently asked him to host “I’m An Adult, Get Me Out Of Here”. having never before worked in television.

Gerry Duffy is a self employed professional motivational speaker, entrepreneur and writer, Gerry’s’ sporting CV is filled accomplishments such as running 32 marathons in 32 days around Ireland as well as completing and winning the inaugural UK DECA Enduroman Ironman distance challenge in 2011.This ten day sporting challenge has been dubbed ‘The toughest 10 day Endurance Challenge in the World’. Gerry has shared his theories on how to achieve big goals to the workforces of companies such as Facebook, Google and Coca Cola. His first book, WHO DARES, RUNS entered the Best Sellers list in Ireland within 6 weeks of its release and was nominated for the WILLIAM HILL Sports Book of the Year.

The Festival launch will takes place on Tuesday 15th May at 8pm at The Greville Arms Hotel Mullingar, where details of the event will be announced.

All are welcome !

Date: 16th May
Time: 9pm
Admission: Free

in the Bar at Áras an Mhuillin, Midlands Regional Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann Centre
Jail Hill Mount St., Mullingar

Great Traditional Irish music and singing in store !
Bígí Linn!

• Caribbean Sale 30KB
• Club Med 45KB
• Croatia 30KB
• Cruise Offers 29KB
• Disneyland Paris 30KB
• Dominican Republic 30KB
• Haven Offers 42KB
• Italy 29KB
• Lanzarote 28KB
• Late Availability 33KB
• Majorca 31KB
• Maldives 30KB
• Portugal 29KB
• Sorrento 30KB
• Western Med Cruise 28KB

Phone: 044 9345430

By its very nature, the Treaty is designed to give increased stability in Ireland and to ensure that we never find ourselves in our current situation again. So why should we vote yes? And why is it important for Irish business?

• Deliver enhanced confidence. The Treaty means less risk and less uncertainty. Confidence will bring new investments and help us to create more jobs which will aid our economic recovery.
• Ensure access to the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). The ESM could be a vital source of emergency financial assistance, if needed, when our current EU/IMF funding programme is completed. Only countries that sign the Treaty will be eligible to access this fund. If we cannot access this fund then Bond Market Funding will be much more expensive.
• Better monitoring of Government decisions. The Treaty will legislate for closer monitoring of countries to take action well in advance of any possible crisis. Monitoring of this nature in the past could have helped Ireland avoid our current situation.
• Exemptions for bailout countries. The Treaty is flexible in that the fiscal rules outlined in the Treaty are not applicable to countries in bailout programmes. This means that Ireland has until 2035 to reduce our debt to 60% of GDP.
• Controlled budget deficits. The Treaty will ensure that the Government must manage its finances in the good times and bad.
• Regain our economic sovereignty. The Treaty will ensure that the overriding fiscal policy priority for whoever is in Government will be to reduce our debt levels to 60% of GDP and allow us to stand alone on international markets.
• No additional austerity. Approving the Treaty does not mean that we will face additional austerity but rather it ensures that we deliver on reform commitments already made.
• Put simply, the Treaty will ensure that the Government spends wisely, saves for the future and regains our economic sovereignty so we can ensure that a stable economic environment is maintained in Ireland in the future.