Business & Community Expo Boyle

Business & Community Expo Boyle 

Boyle Sports Complex, Friday 1st April 2016 4pm-8.30pm

‘Showcasing Boyle & Surrounds for Business, Community Sport and Education’

Times as close as the evening will allow ...

3.30pm - Doors Open

4pm - Opening Welcome:

• Gerry Whelehan, Branch Manager, Bank of Ireland, Boyle

• Speakers representing Roscommon Local Enterprise Office
and Boyle Town Team

4.15pm - Guest Speaker

John Giles in Conversation with Benny O'Brien

4.00 – 4.30pm GAA Workshops:
Boyle & St Michaels with Keith Higgins

Networking - Roving Mike - Opportunity to visit the wide variety of local business exhibitors 

4.45pm - Presentation
Boyle GAA Club & St Michael's GAA  Club (Sligo) Boys u-14 Teams who are both going to Féile 2016 in various locations in Southwest Ireland

5.30pm - Presentation to Boyle Celtic Team of 1966

6pm - Guest Food Demo
Sham Hanifa from ‘The Cottage Restaurant’ 

Sham Hanifa has created something original and upbeat. His menu combines a subtle blend of Asian influences from his grandmother’s kitchen, to modern and Irish and European favourites. All created with the freshest Irish Produce .

Networking - Roving Mike - Opportunity to visit the wide variety of local business exhibitors 

7.15pm Fashion Show

Local boutiques and fashion designers will showcase their upcoming lines of clothing

Demonstrations at Exhibitor stands:
• Face Painting
• Tile Painting

Prize Giveaways
• Ireland Jerseys
• Pad
• Dermot Bannon Books
• Vouchers for Tile Painting

Bank of Ireland Enterprise Town returns to Boyle in 2016

Bank of Ireland Enterprise Town returns to Boyle in 2016

March, 2016: Bank of Ireland has announced the return of its Enterprise Town initiative to Boyle on Friday 1st April. Taking place in the Boyle Sport Complex from 4pm-8.30pm on Friday the event features a Business, Community and Sports Expo as well as plenty of family friendly activity throughout the day. The Bank of Ireland Enterprise Town event has been organised by the Bank in partnership with the local community in Boyle. The initiative aims to promote enterprise and drive business momentum for local businesses and the wider sports and social community in the locality by connecting residents with all the town has to offer. Events are free to attend and are open to both customers and non-customers of Bank of Ireland.  

Over the course of the day exhibitors will display a wide variety of products and services. The event will also include talks from, soccer legend and football pundit, John Giles at what is sure to be an exciting event! 

With something for everyone, a community and sports exhibition will take place and feature local GAA stars, a fashion show, food demonstrations, and IPad giveaways. An array of family friendly entertainment will be provided on the day provided by local performers.

Speaking about the return of Enterprise Town, local Bank of Ireland Branch Manager Gerry Whelehan commented; “Following the great success of last year’s event, we are thrilled to be holding another event this year. The local residents have once again embraced this initiative wholeheartedly and working together, we have organised a very exciting programme of activity.

“The event will be free to attend and is open to all. It is a fantastic opportunity for the community to see the level of enterprise here in Boyle. I would encourage local businesses and the wider community to engage with this initiative and enjoy the exciting programme of activities scheduled for Friday 1^st  April.

We have some great speakers lined up for the day including soccer legend and football pundit, John Giles, I for one am really looking forward to hearing him speak. 

“I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved in helping to organise this event: the Enterprise Town Committee for their wonderful work in promoting the Enterprise Town,” concluded Gerry Whelehan.  

Statement by Denis Naughten on meetings with An Taoiseach & Deputy Martin

Wednesday 9th March 2016

Statement by Denis Naughten on meetings with An Taoiseach & Deputy Martin 

Earlier today I had frank discussions with An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny TD, and leader of the opposition Micheal Martin TD on the formation of a new Government.

In the course of both meetings I made it clear that I am more than willing to play my role in assisting in the formation of a stable Government which would be in a position to implement an agreed programme.

I pointed out that a pre-condition to participating in any Government is a fundamental reform of the way in which Dáil Eireann operates, which currently is a 19th Century model dealing with the 21st Century problems.

If anything we have seen reform in reverse over the term of the last Dáil and the public will no longer tolerate the system whereby the "gang of 4", namely the Economic Management Council (EMC), makes the decisions for all the citizens of this country, which are then rubber stamped by the Cabinet and rammed through a Dáil that spends much of its time bickering. 

With that in mind I presented both leaders with a set of 10 changes to the current rules of Dáil Eireann (Standing Orders) which would help to empower individual members of the Dáil whether they are in a party or outside one. These changes would incentivise and reward TDs who want to make a positive contribution to the parliamentary process rather than those who continually highlight problems but rarely provide constructive solutions.

A number of independent members of Dáil Eireann support these proposals, which have been circulated to all members currently outside a recognised Dáil grouping (see attached). 

Finally, I made it clear to both leaders that many independent members of Dáil Eireann are hungry for change, not necessarily for power, and that we are more than willing to work with any potential government in a spirit of co-operation to secure the inclusion of practical and implementable measures in a Programme for Government which is focused on delivering for provincial and rural Ireland. 

Empowerment of members of Dáil Éireann 

1. Reduce threshold for formation of a group from 7 to any group of 5 members who wish to work together, and who express this in writing to the Ceann Comhairle. 

2. Allow the Dáil to set the agenda – remove Taoiseach’s prerogative on order of business. Replace current whips with Business committees representative of all members with chair to rotate on six monthly basis, between all groups. 

3. Ban motions on the order of business prefaced with “notwithstanding anything in Standing Orders” ensuring business is conducted within Standing orders. 

4. Allow free votes at Oireachtas Committees including on legislation. 

5. Rotate the Leas Cheann Comhairligh on an annual basis – to ensure all members are represented. 

6. Increase the number of opportunities for Private members time on weekly basis and this time should not be confined to recognised groups or parties. ( may be the case that it would require 3 signatures as is the case in the Seanad for a private members Bill) 

7. Replace Topical Issues with 6 commencement motions at the start of the day’s business (similar to Seanad Éireann) 

8. Provide full legislative drafting service to all TDs. 

9. Allow a member to introduce amendments creating a charge upon the State, by moving the requirement of the sanctioning money message by the Government under Article 17. 2 of the Constitution, from before committee stage to before 5th stage. This allows these amendments to be debated in Dáil, instead of being rules out of order. 

10. In addition the catch all interpretation where any amendment which has the potential to create a charge is disallowed should be relaxed and should only come into play if the actual charge is met under the Bill