A Cara,

Doesn’t it seem that the older you get the quicker the summers go by! I hope you are all having a great summer and enjoying outdoor and vacation time with family and friends. The summer has given the IBO Executive Committee a chance to catch our breath, focus on our businesses and, most importantly, spend time with our families. We haven’t, however, forgotten the needs of the IBO and members.

Our NY Breakfast Meetings, hosted by Niall O’Leary, continue to be a great success with a traditional Irish breakfast, combined with the opportunity to network and listen to interesting speakers. The next breakfast is Tuesday, August 15th, and will feature IBO Member, Colleen O’Connor, as our guest speaker. Colleen is a tremendous speaker and her insights into presentation skills, public speaking and all communication techniques will leave you wanting more, so we look forward to seeing you and at $15pp it is great value!

Our New Jersey Networking Group will also meet on August 15th at Molly McGuire’s in Clark, NJ, so if you live in New Jersey and find it hard to always get to the New York General Monthly Meeting avail yourself of this networking meeting at Molly McGuire’s. Well done to Kate Conroy and Pat Sheridan for their continuing efforts in promoting this group.

On Wednesday, August 16th we will host our Annual Summer Networking Party at Hurley’s NYC. A sincere thank you to the Social Committee for putting together what promises to be a great evening. Irish comedienne, Fiona Walsh, will provide us with entertainment.

September 13th our General Monthly Meeting will be held at the Midtown Executive Club, NYC. We will soon announce our guest speaker for this meeting. At this time I’d like to ask our members to please make every effort to attend the IBO Monthly Meetings. A great deal of work and effort goes into planning these meetings and developing the speaker program. We need to provide our speakers with a strong audience if we are to bring you the guest speakers and topics you want. Remember, this is YOUR organization and we need your input and experience to continue its growth.

Also, as nominations and elections approach again, please remember that to be nominated, to nominate, and/or to vote in the elections you must be a member in good standing with three documented IBO sponsored functions and paid membership by March 2006, so there is still some time available to you to get those meetings in.

On September 28th the NJ Networking Group of the Irish Business Organization of NY will hold a golf outing at Twin Brooks, NJ. If you were unable to attend the IBO’s annual golf outing earlier this year at the Irish Links or you haven’t had your fill of golf yet we look forward to seeing you at Twin Brooks.

As many of you know we chose to move our Annual Gala Ball to March 9th, 2007 and we have provisionally booked the New York Showband. In the meantime we plan on hosting a different type of 2006 fall event geared towards our members and their family and friends, so stay tuned for further details. If you are interested in helping us out by volunteering for the fall event please give Clare a call.

Slán agus beannacht leat
Attracta Lyndon
President

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