When I win the Lotto, I'm going to spend my time reading books and talking books and going to book festivals and maybe, maybe even writing books. (I should probably start doing the Lotto.) This week I was delighted to host a panel at the Waterford Writers' Weekend, part of the Imagine Arts Festival, discussing the [...]
It's the busiest time of year for events, and I have lots of awards ceremonies and other events coming up between now and Christmas! This month though I am looking forward to hosting: Breaking Barriers: A ball in aid of Cope Foundation and Jigsaww Cork, hosted by Lidl Cork at the Clayton Hotel Silversprings, this coming [...]
Last month I was delighted to host a panel discussion at the opening of Bibby Financial Services in Cork city featuring local businessmen Tom Leahy of BDM Boylan Solicitors and Seanie McGrath of Hamilton French as well as Bibby's Aoife McGinley and Andrew Perris who works in Foreign Exchange for Bibby in London. The panel discussion [...]
I got lots of reading in during maternity leave, thanks to a lot of night feeds and discovering how useful a backlit iPad is as a Kindle! And I'm looking forward to meeting some authors (and you, I hope!) at exciting events over the next few months. Next month I'm at the West Cork Literary Festival [...]
I'm very excited to share the news that I will be interviewing Mary Robinson at the West Cork Literary Festival in July. The former President has written a book, Climate Justice, on the fight for climate justice by grassroots women around the world. It ties in very well with her podcast with Cobh comedian Maeve Higgins, [...]
I love the opportunity to meet people at live events and I am lucky that I am asked to do a really wide range of events in different areas - corporate, environmental, social, political and, well, fun! Over the next couple of months I have some really exciting events coming up and I hope to meet [...]
Last week I gave a speech to members of the CPA in Cork about the importance of personal branding. It's a concept that makes most of us squirm (myself included) but these days, even if you don't want to call it that, most of us do manage our own brand through various platforms. It was one [...]
There's a great event planned for Ballybunion this weekend - a women in media seminar with some of Ireland's biggest names including Miriam O'Callaghan, Mary Kenny, Catherine O'Halloran and politicians including Mary Lou McDonald and Aine Collins.It's being organised in memory of the late Mary Cummins who was a journalist with the Irish Times, and unlike [...]
