"Women In Business - Shaping the Future"
Happy International Women's Day 2010 to all our GTB listeners!!! Today Over 200 Dublin business women will gather to celebrate International Women's Day. There will be a guest speaker panel which will include Mary Ann O'Brien, founder & MD of Lily O'Brien's; Lucy Gaffney, chairperson of Communicorp Group Ltd.; and Nicola Byrne, managing director of 11890. GirslTalkBack were shocked to find out that despite the fact that nearly 60% of Irish graduates are women, they only represent 30% of entrepreneurs in the EU.
Women In Business networks and the European Network of Female Entrepreneurs work to encourage more women to become entrepreneurs and start their own companies. Tonight, the audience will have a unique opportunity to hear from three of the most successful and respected Irish female entrepreneurs. These entrepreneurs will tell their "success stories", their challenges and achievements along the way, and share their top advices for women in business.
Unfortunately this years event has sold out and there is over 70 people on the waiting list so if you don't get the chance to go to this fantastic event this year make sure to put it in your diary for next year!! Come on Ladies get out there and support one another!!!
WHAT: International Women's Day seminar
"Women In Business - Shaping the Future"
WHEN: Monday 8 March from 6.00pm
WHERE: The Alexander Hotel
Contact:Marion Jammet - 01 644 7235 (Marion@dublinchamber.iemailto:Marion@dublinchamber.iemailto:Marion@dublinchamber.ie)
Triona Campbell (CR Entertainment – European Female Entrepreneurship Ambassador); Nicola Byrne (11890 - European Female Entrepreneurship Ambassador); Agata Stoinksa (D-Lite Studios - Dublin City Enterprise Board Women In Business Programme); Margaret Fay (Giftsforall.ie - Fingal Women in Business Network) and Catherine O’Sullivan (Feelgood scarves - Dun Laoghaire – Rathdown County Enterprise Board Enterprising Women Programme).
Photo by: Maebh Fitzpatrick
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Donal Skehan
We spoke to Donal Skehan, chef, author and Industry Band member. Donal filled us in on how food doesn't have to be challenging to be healthy. It's all about Good Mood Food. His new book Good Mood Food gives you all the information you need to find the chef within. He has recenlty begun giving demonstrations in schools to children and was surprised at how interested they were in learning all about food. Obeasity is rapidly becoming a huge problem in Ireland but Donal believes that if we educate the children, this knowledge may decrease and improve the situation. Donal also has the most amazing blog which you can find at the goodmoodfoodblog.com.You need to check this out ppl! His food tips and blogs are really inspiring and even convinced GTB that we could actually master a few moves in the kitchen! When he is not cooking, he is singing and recently supported JLS in the 02 arena with his up and coming band, Industry. 2010 is a jam packed year for Donal as he will be travelling all around with his culinary skills, raising money for charity and travelling to Paris to cook for 500 people. We wish Donal the best of look and hope to have all the Industry band members on GTB very soon!
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Also speaking on today's show was Senator David Norris, who chatted to GTB about the forthcoming re-publication of Finnegan's Wake. Although the Senator believes the publicity surrounding the launch will renew interest in the text, many readers will still shy away from the text.
Senator Norris also gave GTB an extraordinary rendition of the infamous 200-letter sequence at the start of Finnegan's Wake. We wouldn't have attempted it ourselves, but he pulled it off brilliantly! For anyone who fancies hearing more from the book, he particularly recommends the Cyril Cusack performance of the text.
Hats off to the editors of the new edition, too; Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon have spent 30 years correcting some 9,000 errors in the text. Phew! Check out the publishing details here. The Indo ran a great feature at the weekend on this edition, which you can read here.
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