PRE CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Saturday 12 June
Golf Outing – Druids Glen Golf Club
Enjoy a round of golf on
one of Ireland’s famous championship courses.
The beautiful Druids Glen Golf Resort is
situated just twenty miles south of Dublin on the East Coast of
Ireland.
Known as “the Augusta of Europe”, the
parklands Druids Glen golf course, designed by Pat Ruddy and Tom
Craddock, opened in 1995 and was the Host of the Irish Open in
1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999.
In 2002 it was the venue for the Seve trophy,
a biennial event between the leading Tour Players of Britain and
Ireland and Continental Europe.
Price: €90pp incl VAT. Price includes transport and light snack. Cancellations are non refundable.
Sunday 13 June
Pre Conference Tour – Newgrange and River Boyne (in the Valley of The Kings)
Located in the Boyne Valley, County Meath (about 65kms from Dublin) this UNESCO world heritage site is 5000 years old. Newgrange is a Neolithic ritual Centre and Passage tomb with architectural links to the prehistoric maritime peoples of Portugal, Northern Spain, Brittany, Denmark and the Western Isles.
The building is a thousand years older than the Pyramids and the oldest astronomical observatory in the world, completely intact since the Stone Age. It’s decorated entrance stone and Corbelled inner chamber display the most impressively executed examples of abstract Stone Age art of the early farming communities in Western Europe.
These sophisticated early farmers were Astronomers who incorporated a light box and solar calendar into the passage. This was done to illuminate the cremated bones of the dead in the inner chamber during Winter Solstice. It was also a symbolic technique to celebrate rebirth in the afterlife and the dawning of a new
year. (Limited number of seats
)
River Boyne (in the Valley of The Kings)
The famous battle, a watershed in Irish and European history took place at the Boyne. It changed the balance of power in Europe from the French to the Dutch in 1690.
Lunch - Slane Village
Have a leisurely lunch in The Village of Slane known as “The cradle of Irish Christianity” where St. Patrick lit the Paschal Fire.
http://newgrange.com
Departures from the Four Seasons Hotel at 08.30am
Price €85pp incl VAT. Price includes transport and lunch.
Reservations for all social activities can be made via the online registration form.
