Guest Writer: Kerry

Although we have excellent Training facilities on site here at Legal-Island, Antrim, (see left) due to numbers or location we often have to use external venues. So last Wednesday I took a day to head off to Belfast and see what other options were out there. For further information on our facilities please click onto Training Centre.


We already have some great relationships with local hotels however I was delighted to come across more possible venues on my journey. To name a few there were the CIPFA Offices, Belfast, La Mon Hotel & Country Club, Castlereagh, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland Offices, Belfast, The Ulster Museum and finally Mossley Mill in Newtownabbey. All unique spaces to accommodate the different types of meetings Legal-Island run each season.


Another busy week sees the start of the conference season both in NI and ROI. Heather jets off tomorrow to Cork to host our first sell out event of the year - Dealing with Teacher Underperformance. And I am off to host a Free Mediation in the Workforce Seminar in Belfast on Tuesday morning.


Out and about:


Heather will be meeting with Emer from Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel today.


I will attending a BEN Speed Networking Event with Jayne tomorrow evening and then I have a networking dinner to attend at the Ramada, Shawsbridge, on Wednesday night.


Jacqui will be continuing with our volunteering initiative by helping take a group of Primary 4's from Mount St Michael's PS in Randalstown to Cultra this week. Should be lots of fun!


Barry's got an easy Monday with little in the diary other than internal meetings. On Tuesday he opens up the Breakfast seminar on Mediation at the Holiday Inn along with Tom Evans from DEL. On Thursday night Barry, Jayne, Ainsley and our guest Michelle Gallen from Shhmooze is off to the EFQM Gala Awards to pick up Legal-Island's mark of excellence. On Friday he's off to London. Lucky him!


Scott will be in Dublin on Wednesday. Meetings include those with Marion Jennings, chair of our Irish Annual Reviews of Employment Law; Peter McInnes of McDowell Purcell; Emma Barrett of Keating & Associates, John Horgan; consultant, and Niall Saul of Symbio HR Solutions.

More volunteering with Ballycraigy Primary: Peter & Ainsley will be going along on Wednesday to support the football team who is playing a friendly at Muckamore with the hope to help out during training as the season progresses. Also this week sees the first hockey training session and I will be going along to help and hopefully bring a little energy to the new team!

Here's to another busy & successful event season on the Island....