Guest Writer - Donna - 7th March 2011

I have to say March is one of my favourite months as it means the evenings are getting longer, the birds are singing, the lambs are skipping in the fields and we can hopefully say goodbye to the dull cold days and nights of winter - although this is Northern Ireland, our weather doesn't always abide by the months of the year!

March is full of wellbeing awareness days including International Womens day on 8th March, No Smoking Day on 9th March and it is the Ovarian and Prostrate cancer awareness month - for further information see http://www.ovarian.org.uk/
www.prostate-cancer.org.uk.

The older folks around North Antrim have a saying that if "March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb" - here at Legal Island we are charging into March like a lion with a full programme of events in NI, ROI and GB, for full details see our website at http://www.legal-island.com/or http://www.legal-island.ie/

Who is doing what this week?

Barry

Barry's week started early with a meeting at 8.30a.m. this morning with Quintin Oliver from Statagem. He has another with a representative of BITC at lunch today and a business dinner this evening at the Stormont. On Tuesday evening he's attending a business book review club in Belfast whilst on Wednesday he's meeting barrister, Mark McEvoy for lunch at the Hilton. On Thursday he's a phone call conference with Guy Levene and so far Friday is completely free but no doubt that will change before he's got stuck into even part of the week.

Jayne

On Monday Jayne is meeting John Heaslip from BITC with Barry. On Tuesday Jayne and Heather will be attending the Women in Business and IOD event at the La Mon and on Wednesday she will be meeting lisa McIlvenna and Lindsay McKee from BITC to discuss our membership. On Thursday she will be jetting off to New York for a "mini shopping major spend" break - we are not at all jealous!

Heather

Ballycraigy hockey team will have the assistance of Heather on Thursday afternoon

Kerry

Last week Kerry hosted in the Stillorgan and was so impressed by the table lighting provided for the delegates at lunchtime that she took a photo -they were treated like royalty.

This week Kerry will be hosting at theEssentials of Employment Law event on Thursday at the Hilton, Belfast.

Ainsley

On Thursday Ainsley and Peter will be at Ballycraigy Primary school coaching the football team and then he will head onto Parkhall college for his YENI slot.

Staff News...

We are thrilled to have John Hardy back with us, he will be covering the Email Service Manager post when Julie is off on maternity leave.

In admin we will be conducting second round interviews to appoint a new part time administrator.

We are looking forward to meeting the new telesales addition to the marketing team. Her name is Rose Henry and I hope she will enjoy her time with us.

And Finally....
In case you wondered, Legal Island wont be going out of March like a lamb we will do it all again in April.