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Buncrana hosts Canadian Ambassador
26.01.12
Fourth Annual Laurentic
Conference and wreath-laying ceremony
BUNCRANA will play host to the Canadian Ambassador
to Ireland, Loyola Hearn, this weekend for the
fourth annual Laurentic Conference and wreath-laying
ceremony.
The conference will take place at the Inishowen
Gateway Hotel tomorrow, Friday, January 27, followed
on Saturday by the laying of wreaths in memory of
the several hundred sailors who died when the SS
Laurentic struck two mines off Lough Swilly in 1917.
This year's seminar will explore the theme:
‘Historical and Cultural Tourism in the North West
and Engaging our Canadian Diaspora Tourism”.
The event, organised by the Ulster Canada
Initiative, is fast emerging as one of the North
West's key business and cultural forums. Mr Hearn
will be among the seminar speakers who will also
include Shona McCarthy, CEO of Culture Company 2013,
Mary Bunting and Margaret Stanley, joint secretaries
of the North South Ministerial Council, Dr Brendan
O’Keefe, University of Limerick, Uel Hoey, route
manager at Belfast International Airport and Claire
Bradshaw, head of sales and marketing at the Titanic
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Buncrana Mayor, Cllr Nicholas Crossan
pictured with Canadian Ambassador, Loyola Hearn,
centre, and Donnie McNeill, chairman of the Ulster
Canada Initiative. |
Ulster Canada
Initiative chairman, Don McNeill, said the
conference would explore new opportunities between
the North West and Canada.
"The main mandate will be to focus on ways to make
new connections and identify business and tourism
opportunities and cultural links across the
Atlantic."
Conference attendance is €50 including lunch.
Registration is at 8.30am and the event will run
from 9am-5pm. All funds raised from the event will
go towards the Ulster Newfoundland Initiative's
peace and reconciliation programme.
Meanwhile, the wreath-laying ceremony will will take
place on Saturday, January 28 at 2pm in St Mura's
Church of Ireland graveyard in Fahan and at 3pm at
Cockhill Cemetery, Buncrana. Everyone is welcome.
For bookings and further information contact
j.odonnell@visitinishowen.com or phone 074
9362600. |
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