I am delighted to advise that we have organised an ISA Industry Dinner, which will be held in Jury's Hotel, Western Road, Cork on Saturday the 04th October 2003. This social event is been organised to celebrate our Section winning the Gold in the World Section Performance Award, for the second year in a row. We will also be taking this opportunity to recognise Bob Shine the FIRST member in Ireland to be awarded the Society's Golden Achievement Award for 25 years dedicated service.

The evening will be a great opportunity for you to entertain clients and their partners, meet old friends, or to just have a good night out. I am further pleased to advise that our dinner will be run along the same lines as previous years i.e., short speeches, good food, light entertainment, plenty of dancing and good clean fun. To this end we have organised Frank Twomey of Bull Island fame, where he plays the part of Mary O'Rourke. He will perform his one man show "Out of the Box", and Frank is also due to appear on Fair City in the near future. Frank's performance will be followed by the band "Fantasy".

Our dinners have generated great Corporate Support so as a result we have allocated a quantity of tables with seating for 10 at €450 per table. Because of the corporate support we are able to offer the Tickets to members and their partners at a special price of €35.00 each.

For your comfort we have to limit the number of tickets to 250. As we expect a quick uptake on tickets, given that we have reservations for 100 already, tickets will be sold on a first come first served basis. To reserve your tickets or corporate table please complete the attached Application Form and return it immediately.

We have negotiated special rates with the Jury's Hotel for the occasion, i.e., €45 per person sharing and €75 for single occupancy. Should you wish to avail of the aforementioned rates please contact the Jury's Hotel direct, 021-4276622 quoting the ISA as a reference when booking your accommodation.

I look forward to seeing you on the 04th, October.

Yours sincerely

Peadar Walsh
President , ISA Ireland Section.

Pictures from the ISA Industries Dinner
4th October 2003.
More Pictures from 2003/4

Committee members and their "significant others" at the Dinner.

Bob Shine was unable to attend the Industry Dinner and Dan O'Sullivan received a special mark of apprication on his behalf, for his work for the section especially the Section History published last year. Also honoured for their contribution to Instrumentation in Ireland were Billy O'Neill (Project Management) and Jim Doyle (Carlow Institute of Technology). These pictures show the award being presented by President Peadar Walsh.
Also acknowledged was the contribution of Declan Lordan to the organisation of the ISA Ireland sponsored Read-out Forum and on left Eoin Ó Riain of Read-out presents him with a framed First Day Cover of the stamp honouring Ireland's Nobel Physics prizewinner Dr ETS Walton. Members of the committee at the dinner ar in the picture on the right.

Here is Bull Island