HR Conference: Tipping the Balance

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HR Conference: Tipping the Balance

The Business Case for Diversity

In association with the European Commission Directorate General for Employment, Social Affairs & Equal Opportunities

Wednesday 22nd October 2008

9.00am - 4.00pm

The Palatine Room

National Museum of Ireland - Collins Barracks

Speakers include

· Lucy Fallon Byrne, Director, NCPP

· Niall Crowley, CEO, the Equality Authority.

· John Forde, HR Manager, Celtic Linen.

· Michelle Ryan, HR Manager, McDonalds,

· John Cunningham, Chair, Immigrant Council of Ireland

About the conference

This is one-day conference aims to show companies how they can support their business through proper HR practice. Encouraging workplace diversity supports innovation, productivity, and competitiveness. Featuring a combination of business case studies and practical advice attendees will learn how a well implemented diversity policy can make a business more productive and successful.

To attend this Free conference simply email your details to tippingthebalance@chambers.ie or call 01 400 4321.

Conference materials, lunch and refreshments will be provided

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Hafa tatamanu ha? Todu maolek

Some of you will be aware that my use of language can be quite innovative. That is a language says one thing and I pronounce it completely differently! There are times when I am sure that I may have committed a genocide on various languages and would be brought before the Hague, save for the fact that the Language police haven't caught me yet. I like languages. I may prounce everything wrong and make huge grammatical screwups in form but I still like em!

So you can imagine my delight when I came across this site which told me how to say "How are in you?" in 426 languages! I may never get to speak Chamorro ( from Guam) or Cree (from Canada) but you never know.......

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Just Sometimes.....

Sometimes a picture paints a thousand words.

(or 16,777 words to be exact!)

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Barnardos’ Tomorrow’s Child Conference on 5-6 November 2008.

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Dear All,

Please find attached details of Barnardos’ Tomorrow’s Child Conference on 5-6 November 2008.

For more details, please don’t hesitate to contact me on 01 708 0427 or email catherine.mjoyce@barnardos.ie.

Kind regards

Catherine

Advocacy Manager

Barnardos

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"Terrible Queer Creatures - Homosexuality in Irish History"

Image via WikipediaI can't go to this next week but its always good to do some promo work. :-)


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Invitation – The Directors of Wordwell would like to invite you

to the launch by Ruairi Quinn TD with contributions by Jeff Dudgeon
(founder member of the Northern Ireland Gay Rights Association)

of "Terrible Queer Creatures – Homosexuality in Irish History" by
Brian Lacey.

Venue: Oak Room, Mansion House, Dawson Street, Dublin 2
At: 6.00 p.m.,
On: Thursday, 25th September 2008.

Regrets only
Helen Dunne Tel: 01–2947860
Email: helen@wordwellbooks.com
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DebU & "Stab City"

Image via Wikipedia University of Limerick's Debating Union recently hosted a debate on "Stab City, Fact or Myth". The Limerick Blogger has a video of the debate, which makes for very interesting viewing. Speakers featured here are former Limerick City Mayor Diarmuid Scully, Midwest Correspondent from the Irish Independent, Communications Executive of the Limerick Co-ordination Office, and Colme Keena of the Irish Times.

See here details

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National Library of Ireland Upcoming Events

National Library of Ireland

Upcoming Events

Library Late – Stella Tillyard in conversation with Myles Dungan

Thursday, 18 September at 8pm

Stella Tillyard is a British author and trained as an art historian. She is the author of The Impact of Modernism 1900-1920: Early Modernism and the Arts and Crafts movement in Edwardian England (1988); Aristocrats: Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox, 1740-1832 (1994); Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798 (1997) and A Royal Affair: George III and his Troublesome Siblings (2006). Aristocrats won the Longman/History Today Book of the Year Award, the Fawcett Prize, and has been translated into six languages. The story was also produced as a film. Dr Stella Tillyard is currently with the University of London School of English and Drama. She is now beginning her research on the British experience of the American War of Independence.

Admission is free but booking is essential. Please telephone 01 603 0317 to reserve your seat.

Culture Night, 19 September 2008

Late opening until 9pm at the exhibitions:

• Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats at the National Library of Ireland
• Planes, Trains & Automobiles, National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Sq, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Film Screening

Screening of the Lumière Brothers films in Ireland at 7pm in the Library’s Seminar room.

The films are believed to be the earliest motion pictures of Ireland known to still exist. In 1897, Alexandre Promio, a cameraman for the Lumière brothers travelled to Ireland and filmed his arrival in Belfast docks, the Belfast Fire Brigade, Castle Place and Queen’s Bridge. He travelled to Dublin by train and filmed various places en route. The footage of Dublin features shots of O’Connell Bridge and a display by the Dublin Fire Brigade in St Stephen’s Green. The films were first shown on 15 November 1897 for the opening of the Empire Palace Theatre on Dame Street.

The Lumière Brothers films in Ireland will be introduced by Mr Bob Monks, National Library of Ireland, an expert in the field of Irish film history.

Tours

Guided tours of the award winning exhibition Yeats: the life and works of William Butler Yeats will take place at 6pm & 8pm.

My Gentle Harp: Thomas Moore Commemorative Concerts

24 Sept, 1 and 8 Oct 2008

6.30 pm, Seminar Room

In celebration of 200 years of Moore's world-famous Irish Melodies, the Thomas Moore Commemorative Festival is delighted to present a series of three concert performances at the National Library of Ireland as part of its extensive nationwide tour.

24 Sept 2008:

Vocalists Dean Power, Raphaela Mangan

Musical Director Una Hunt

Special guest speaker Ita Beausang: “Revisiting Moore: ‘He had given voice to Ireland, he had put into her mouth a song of her own’. Stephen Gwynn”

1 Oct 2008:

Vocalists Ciaran Kelly, Anna Brady

Musical Director Una Hunt

Special guest speaker Ronan Kelly: “Mad, bad Lord Byron, the Great Dan and Thomas Moore”

8 Oct 2008:

Vocalists Rachel Kelly, Niamh McCormack

Musical Director Una Hunt

Special guest speaker Emer Nolan: “Moore and Captain Rock: the Melodies and Irish History”

Contact Details

Tel: 01 603 0277

Web: www.nli.ie

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Gayclare Disco 11th October 2008

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The Gay Clare Group wishes to let you know that we are holding another disco. It will take place on Saturday 11th October in the Inisheer Suite of the West County Hotel, Clare
Road , Ennis.We will be going back to the 80's for a night of all your fav 80's music.
Time 10.30 till late. Admission €10.

More information is available on www.gayclare.com or www.bebo.com/gayclare.

We also have the photos from our last disco up on the website.

We have accommodation details on our website for those who might want that option.

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On the Campaign trail

With all this talk of McCain-Palin, here is the latest Campaign tactic from the Obama campaign.
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Whose People?

Ordinarily I would have expected to have heard a huge amount of hyped up ads being pumped out of MCD marketing department about this gig....Then again they are only playing in Tripod however I could not let this moment pass without bringing it to y'all attention! It made me smile to see that the Village People will be playing in Tripod the end of the Month (Sept 21st to be exact). Yes that is right. The people who brought you that floor filler of a song, which sends limbs flying in some directions they were never meant to go as people aim to keep time with the key letters of the 'Y.M.C.A.' anthem. You may also know them by such other pop anthems as 'In the Navy' and 'Macho Man' (Sorry slipped into a Troy Mccleur advert from the Simpsons-its been a long week). I reckon this would be a fantasticly fablisly wonderful night to go to. I mean you couldn't possibly camp it up anymore even if you pitched tents up in Electric Picnic with a GHD, Hairdryer & a backup mobile phone charger for your Blackberry, just in case you get another email from Facebook telling you that 'Sparkey' has found you a match!**. For more information on the event click here to bring you to the POD's events page.

**Disclaimer: EVents such as this MAY or may not have happened to the author or the author's friends in which case, they deserve to be told so as to have the piss taken out of them!

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Mr. Bush and HRH Queen Elizabeth II

A Nice little Gem for this hour of the morning. :-)
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George Bush met The Queen, and he turns round and says:
"As I'm the President, I'm thinking of changing how the country is referred to,
and I'm thinking that it should be a Kingdom." The Queen replies "I'm sorry Mr.
Bush, but to be a Kingdom, you have to have a King in charge - and you're not a
King."

George Bush thought a while and then said: "How about a
Principality then?" To which the Queen replied "Again, to be a Principality you
have to be a Prince - and you're not a Prince, Mr. Bush".

Bush thought long and hard and came up with "How about an
Empire then?" The Queen, getting a little annoyed by now, replies "Sorry again,
Mr. Bush, but to be an Empire you must have an Emperor in charge - and you are
not an Emperor."

Before George Bush could utter another word, the Queen
said: "I think you're doing quite nicely as a Country."

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Almost there again.....

Almost there again........

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Morning Humour

Classic...

Reaching the end of a job interview, the Human Resources Person asked a young engineer fresh out of MIT, What starting salary were you looking for? The engineer replied, In the neighborhood of $125,000 a year, depending on the benefits package. The interviewer said, Well, what would you say to a package of 5 weeks vacation, 14 paid holidays, full medical and dental, company matching retirement fund to 50% of salary, and a company car leased every 2 years -- say, a red Corvette? The Engineer sat up straight and said, Wow! Are you kidding? The interviewer replied, Well Yeah, but you started it.

via: http://www.jobpredictor.com/jokejob.asp

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