The Winter Conference

The annual winter conference took place in An Grianán on Saturday. The conference opened in the morning with important topics about An Grianán and the ICA being discussed. This was then followed by the launch of the new book The ICA book of Tea and Company. In the afternoon we were joined by two guest speakers. The first spoke about The People’s Conversation which aims to improve Irish society. The second spoke about the changes in banking with particular insight to Bank of Ireland.

The ICA book of Tea and Company

This is the fourth book that has been published with the collaborative work of the ICA members. It contains favourite tea time recipes to suit all occasions alongside quotes, prayers, sayings and poetry. So no matter the day, good or bad, you are guaranteed to find some inspiration here.

For more information see http://www.ica.ie/ICA-Book-of-Tea-and-Company.2537.1.aspx

The Peoples Conversation 

The people’s conservation aims to make social and economic improvements by engaging and empowering the communities in Ireland in discussion by setting up conversation groups.

Conversation groups = Community themes and ideas=Reference board =Vision Statement and policy recommendation = Campaigning

For more information http://peoplesconversation.ie/

Banking

Banking is changing rapidly. Bank of Ireland aims to change transactions to interactions with theIr new welcome advisers who can answer all questions about the new procedures such as how to use the new transaction machines or the various new ways of banking.

For more information see http://www.bankofireland.com/