IWAI - 50th Anniversary Conference 2004

50th Anniversary Conference 2004

Tuesday 27th July 2004
Hodson Bay Hotel
Athlone

Photos from the conference

after-lunch audience

Roger Lorenz

John Martin

Colin Becker

Angus Levie

INLAND WATERWAYS ASSOCIATION OF IRELAND

50th Anniversary Conference

PROGRAMME

09.15 Registration

09.45 Conference Assembles

10.00 Official Opening

Eamon Ó Cuiv TD
Angela Smith MP

10.30 History of the Waterways

Transport Museum Film
This is a film of a journey on the Shannon in the 1930s

11.00 Ruth Heard

Authority on Irish Inland Waterways

11.45 Coffee

12.15 History of the Association

Brian Goggin, Journalist and expert on our Inland Waterways

13.00 Lunch

14.00 Developement of the Waterways

John Martin, CEO Waterways Ireland

14.45 Tourism on the Water

Angus Levie, MD Shannon Castle Line

15.30 Coffee

16.00 Coastguard Air / Sea Rescue

Demonstration

16.30 Commercial Waterways

Roger Lorenz
Commercial Boat Surveyor

17.15 The Private Boater

Colin Becker, Past President IWAI

18.00 Closing Address

Donal Ó Síocháin, President IWAI

Conference Dinner

There will be a Dinner in the Hotel on the evening of the Conference with a keynote speaker. See attached booking form.