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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS
As the summer begins to fade into autumn, hopefully our collective thoughts begin to focus on the IBO's Gala Ball, and the many charities we have helped over the years. 2004 will be no exception. The 2004 Annual IBO Gala Ball will be held on October 15th at the New York Hilton. We honor the great works of Brother Curry's National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped as we present Brother Curry with the Humanitarian Award and we will honor the Pipes and Drums of the NYPD Emerald Society with our Celtic Spirit Award. Our IBO Corporate Member of the Year is Dwyer-Fitzpatrick Allied Management, and Mike Doherty, President of Building Maintenance Service Corporation, will be presented with the Business Person of the Year Award. Both have made major contributions to charities throughout the tri-state area.
Brother Rick Curry, S.J. founded the NTWH almost thirty years ago in New York City. Since then some 5,000 disabled people have been trained in the arts. About six years ago, Brother began a program that included disabled people from Ireland. His selfless dedication to the disabled and the arts is something that we should all celebrate at our Gala Ball.
We hope you will all be there for the special entertainment that will be provided by the NTWH, as well as the Pipes and Drums, which have become such an integral part of our New York Irish heritage
The Gala as well as our other programming will be discussed at the next meeting on September 8th. We hope to see you there
James Doran
President, IBO
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IBO MONTHLY MEETINGS
September Meeting
Wednesday, September 8th - 6.30pm
** NOTE NEW START TIME **
Speaker: Chris Winning & Aoife Brosnan of Corporate Care Relocation, Ireland, will introduce their latest property search service. Chris established Corporate Care Relocation (CCR) in 1997, and Aoife joined the team in 2001. CCR provides relocation support, tenancy management and now a property search service to clients on a global basis. This latest service will support Irish & Irish American clients who wish to invest in the booming property market in Ireland.
 Guest Speaker : Alasdair McDonnell, Deputy Leader, SDLP, MLA for South Belfast
Dr. Alasdair McDonnell is a Social Democratic & Labour party (SDLP) member of the new Northern Ireland assembly at Stormont in Belfast.
Dr. McDonnell grew up on a farm in the glens of Antrim 50 miles north of Belfast and close to the Giants Causeway. He studied medicine at University College Dublin and qualified as a medical doctor in 1974. He has worked in inner city Belfast since 1974 and spent the last 27 years as a Family Physician working in a very deprived inner city community, doubling as a grassroots leader for that community.
Dr. McDonnell’s political career began as a 17-year-old civil rights activist, while still at high school, in the late 1960’s. A short time later in June 1970 he became the youngest ever candidate to contest an election to the British Parliament, when as a 19 yr old medical student, fighting on a civil rights platform he took on the reactionary Rev. Ian Paisley.
In early 1971, the group that he represented merged with other civil rights activists to form the Social Democratic and Labour Party and he became a key activist in the new party.
Dr. McDonnell returned to Belfast after he finished medical school in Dublin and won a seat on the Belfast city council. Since then he has built South Belfast into one of the SDLP’s strongest power bases, only retiring recently from the city council after 24 years service to concentrate on the Northern Ireland Assembly. In the 2001 Westminster election in South Belfast Mc Donnell came close to unseating the incumbent right wing Unionist Rev. Martin Smyth former head of the Orange Order.
Dr. McDonnell’s passion, energy, vision and ability to rise above the narrow sectarianism and bigotry in Northern Ireland allowed him to build strong working partnerships with political rivals both Unionists and Nationalists in Belfast City Hall. These partnerships, which have done much to lay the foundations for economic reconstruction, have brought benefits to all his constituents regardless of politics or religion.
Alasdair has forged productive economic links and partnerships between Northern Ireland and the eastern seaboard of North America, including the city of Boston, the city of Pittsburgh, and Atlantic Canada
In 1995 McDonnell became the first ever Catholic to be elected Deputy Mayor of Belfast. His superb performance in that office contributed to the trust and goodwill that greatly strengthened Unionist confidence in the then emerging peace process. In Feb 2004 he was elected Deputy Leader of the SDLP.
Alasdair McDonnell is married to educational social worker Olivia Nugent. They have three children, Dervla age 5 ½, Rory 4 years and Oisin 1½ years old. He continues to attend to his medical practice two days per week with the balance of the week and weekends devoted to his constituency (district) and the politics of peace in Northern Ireland.
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IBO CALENDAR
OF EVENTS
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September
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Wednesday
Sept 8th
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September IBO NY Meeting
The Shelburne Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave (@37th St.), New York, NY.
Speaker: Chris Winning & Aoife Brosnan of Corporate Care Relocation, Ireland, will introduce their latest property search service. Chris established Corporate Care Relocation (CCR) in 1997, and Aoife joined the team in 2001. CCR provides relocation support, tenancy management and now a property search service to clients on a global basis. This latest service will support Irish & Irish American clients who wish to invest in the booming property market in Ireland.
Guest Speaker: Alasdair McDonnell, Deputy Leader, SDLP
Married with three children, Alasdair McDonnell is a part-time family doctor in the Ormeau Road area of Belfast. Elected for many years to Belfast City Council as a councillor for Lagan Bank, he retired from the City Council in 2001 to concentrate on Assembly duties.
Alasdair has stood as a Parliamentary Candidate in 1979, 1982 (by-election), 1983, 1987, 1992 and 1997 elections. He was elected to the Inter-Party Talks for South Belfast in May 1996 and was elected to the Assembly in 1998, topping the poll in South Belfast.
He is Party Spokesperson on Enterprise Trade & Investment and Europe. Alasdair is a former Chairman of the Economic Development Sub-committee of Belfast City Council, which continues to spearhead a number of economic regeneration projects across Belfast.
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6.30 PM
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Tuesday
Sept 21st
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6:30 PM
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Wednesday
September 22nd
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Rockland County Meeting
Madden’s Restaurant, Central Avenue, Pearl River, NY 10954. Guest speaker: John Lowry of Minuteman Press of Nanuet. For details please contact Julia Connolly (201) 446-7939, juliac@ibo-ny.com
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7:00 PM
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Tuesday
Sept 28th
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NYC Breakfast Networking Meeting
Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel, 44th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. Contribution for light breakfast is $10.
Any questions, contact Tom Ward at TGWard718@aol.com or 718-565-0383.
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8:00 AM
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October
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Wednesday
October 13th
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October IBO NY Meeting
The Shelburne Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave (@37th St.), New York, NY - Guest Speaker: Deputy Chief Michael Collins, NYPD
Also: Nominations for the 2005 IBO Executive Board.
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6:30 PM
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Friday
October 15th
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Annual Gala Ball, New York Hilton
**SAVE THE DATE **
This year the recipient of our Humanitarian Award will be Brother Rick Curry, Founder and Artistic Director of The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped. The NTWH provides the disabled community with the communication skills necessary to pursue a life in professional theatre and enhance their opportunities in the workplace. Our Celtic Spirit Award will be honoring The Pipes and Drums of the NYPD Emerald Society. For the past forty-three years their music has played in both joyous times and also comforted the New York community, especially after September 11th. Dwyer Fitzpatrick Allied Management is our IBO Corporate Member of the Year Honoree. Allied Management has been a longtime generous supporter of the IBO and the Irish and Irish American Community in New York and the Tri-State Region. The IBO is presenting Michael Doherty, President of Building Maintenance Service Corp. a subsidiary of Vornado Realty Trust, with the Business Person of the Year Award for his contributions to the Irish and Irish American business community. The Gala Ball, being held on Friday, October 15th at the New York Hilton, will commence at 6:30pm with the Cocktail Hour, followed by dinner and dancing. Music will be provided by the Summer Wind Band. There will also be performances by the NYPD Emerald Society Pipes and Drums and the NTWH during the course of the event. Tickets are available: Members $175; Non-Members $250 Raffle Tickets: $25 for one or five for $100. Sponsorship Opportunities are available. Please contact Clare Bennett, IBO Administrator, at 212.750.8118 or email her at clareb@ibo-ny.com, for further information, to order tickets or to avail of the sponsorship opportunities available. Order forms can be downloaded from our web site at www.ibo-ny.com. or by clicking this link.
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Tuesday
October 19th
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6:30 PM
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Tuesday
Oct 26th
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NYC Breakfast Networking Meeting
Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel, 44th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. Contribution for light breakfast is $10.
Any questions, contact Tom Ward at TGWard718@aol.com or 718-565-0383.
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8:00 AM
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November
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Wednesday
Nov 10th
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October IBO NY Meeting
The Shelburne Hotel, 303 Lexington Ave (@37th St.), New York, NY - Guest Speaker: Diarmuid Hogan, President of Global Excess Partners, LLC, and Chairman of Beaumont Hospital International
Also: Elections for the 2005 IBO Executive Board
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Tuesday
Nov 16th
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6:30 PM
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Tuesday
Nov 23th
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NYC Breakfast Networking Meeting
Fitzpatrick's Grand Central Hotel, 44th Street between Lexington and Third Avenues. Contribution for light breakfast is $10.
Any questions, contact Tom Ward at TGWard718@aol.com or 718-565-0383.
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IBO EXECUTIVE BOARD ELECTIONS
The nomination for election to the Executive Board of the IBO will close at the October monthly meeting, and the annual election will be held at the November monthly meeting.
At the end of every year we say goodbye to some board members and thus need to look for new blood! Please consider if you might be willing to assist in keeping the IBO the dynamic and exciting organization that it is.
There are roles for all, no matter how full or empty your schedule may be… If you think that you might have just the right ideas to help keep the IBO on the path to success, please contact any of the existing board members or Clare, the IBO administrator.
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LEGAL EASE
A monthly legal column by Carolyn A. Byrne, Esq.
As some of you already know, I have decided to leave big firm practice and join a longtime friend, Anthony Daniele, in his practice of matrimonial and family law here in Manhattan. I am thrilled about this new opportunity, as well as the prospect of writing an IBO column next month on such an interesting and controversial area of law. Stay tuned!
Until next time,
Carolyn A. Byrne
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IBO
MENTOR PROGRAM
If you have a career that you would like to develop further, run an enterprise that you would like guidance on, or simply would like a wise and unbiased head to turn to - the IBO Mentoring Program could be the answer. We have access to experienced individuals both within and outside the IBO who have offered to act as Mentors to our members.
The Program is free to IBO members and is totally confidential.
If you would like to learn more, email Simon Pereira Shorey at simonps@ibo-ny.com or call Simon on (212) 208 2526.
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NOTICEBOARD
 Bryan Nolan
Many of you will know that Bryan Nolan and his family have returned to Ireland this summer. We wish them well and will miss them tremendously. Bryan, thank you so very much for all that you have done for the IBO. We hope to see you on visits from time to time
- IBO Website Members Forum
Just a reminder that once you have logged into the Members Forum (left hand side of the IBO Home Page at www.ibo-ny.com) if you click on to ‘Members Forum’ you will have access to pages for:
- Job Opportunities
- Members seeking positions
- For Sale/For Rent
- Misc. Event Announcements
- IBO Suggestion Box
You can post your own items and read those posted by other members. This is a new area so initially there will be only a few items there. However, the more you use it, the more useful it will become! So please post about any non-IBO events that you wish to publicize, post job opportunities that you hear about, and indeed anything else pertinent. This is YOUR area. Please use it and read it every time you come to the website.
- Success Stories
One hears of many success stories of how membership of the IBO has led to new business, a new job, etc. We are seeking to collect these so that they can be used as ‘sales points’ to attract and retain members. If you have one (or many) of these stories to tell, please email us now at success@ibo-ny.com and let us know.
- Membership Renewal
If you have not already done so, please take the opportunity to contact Clare Bennett, our IBO Administrator, to renew your 2004 Membership. Your financial support of the organization is vital to its existence and growth. If you have paid we would appreciate it if you could verify that your payment transaction was completed as we have discovered that due to technical errors several member payment transactions were incomplete and therefore, not validated into the IBO database. Clare is streamlining the database, printing new badges for 2004 members, and will be updating the on-line directory shortly, removing inactive members. Clare can be contacted at 212.750.8118 or email at clareb@ibo-ny.com and she is available to answer any questions, concerns, comments or suggestions you may have. She welcomes your calls and shares all feedback she receives with the Executive Committee.
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About The IBO:
The Irish Business Organization of New York, Inc. is an non-profit,
non-denominational organization, which seeks to promote, foster, and
advance the business interests of Irish and Irish American business
people in the tri-state area.
The IBO News
is the official newsletter of the Irish Business Organization of New
York, Inc. It is published 10 times per year. This newsletter is distributed
to members of the IBO, guests from recent IBO meetings, and other individuals
from the NY-NJ-CT business community.
Newsletter Staff
Editor: Simon Pereira Shorey, GeneAfrica, Inc. (212) 208 2526
Technical Support: Jim McGuire, Eric Elias: Teledotcom Inc., 212 675 6565
Contact Information:
The Irish Business Organization of New York Inc.
FDR Station, PO Box 6425
New York, NY 10150-1901
Tel: 212 750 8118
Fax: 212 747 1820
email: info@ibo-ny.com
www.ibo-ny.com
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