Féach Family Information Day, Sat 2nd October, Portlaoise.

Amz

Family Information Day

Saturday 2nd October at 2pm

Guest Speakers at The Heritage Hotel Portlaoise include:

Mark Pollock:
Mark is a brilliant rower and, since losing his sight, he's won a silver medal rowing for Northern Ireland at the Commonwealth Games. Last year he ran six marathons in seven days across the Gobi Desert in China

Joanne Doherty:
Joanne is married with five children and is visually impaired. She is also a counsellor and Psychotherapist

Dr. Donal Fitzpatrick:
Donal was the first blind student to gain admission to Dublin City University and is now a lecturer in the School of Computer Applications at DCU.

You'll have the opportunity to meet and talk with the speakers and indeed other people connected with blind and visually impaired. Information and some of the latest equipment will be on display. The day promises to be enjoyable and informative and we're looking forward to seeing you.

The Heritage Hotel Portlaoise is only 1 hour from Dublin and 2 minutes walk from the train station. Anyone who wishes to stay should contact the hotel Ph. 0502 78588 or E-mail info@theheritagehotel.com. €75 pp sharing, including breakfast.

Children are also welcome and to help with arrangements if you can let us know if they are attending….

Chris Maxwell at 01 282 3028 /086 364 0233
Bernie Beirne at 01 493 4947 / 086 819 6894

Further information on Féach can be found here

I'll be at this event myself hehe!

billy the squid

How did the event go Amz, would have been an interesting day. Donal was years ahead of me in school, now he's a Dr. hmm

Amz

I had a great day

I really enjoyed it.

The Féach AGM is usually on in Dublin so in order to be more central they held it in Portlaoise. I think it was a great success as a lot of people who wouldn't have been able to get to Dublin were able to attend this.

It was great being able to talk to a lot of the parents and also the kids and their siblings. I always have great craic at them.

I managed to get to chat to Donal and he's such a lovely guy. I'm in DCU myself so it was great to make a contact there with similar circumstances. He's been able to offer me great advice already which is brilliant!

billy the squid

Yeah they used to hold these events in dublin which made it impossible to get to, I guess it would have made it even harder for parents with children .

as for donal it was just funny seeing Dr. before his name