Conflicts Course delivered to Rural Community Network enablers

Rural Community Network

Back row: Aideen McLoughlin, Jane Golden, Alan Bruce, Rainer Pagel, Neville Armstrong. Front row: Tracey Hunter, Sharon O’Toole

Presentation of certificates to enablers

Back Row:  Dr Alan Bruce, Orla Black, Kate Clifford, Jude Cumiskey, Oliver Corr.  Front Row:  Anita Kelly,  Des Fiddes, Adele Robinson.

The Conflicts of Interest programme was delivered recently to a group of enablers working with the Rural Community Network. Pictured above is the presentation of certificates of completion to some of those who participated.

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Celebrated author addresses session

Darach McDonald

Celebrated author of Blood and Thunder, Darach Mac Donald, addressed a session of the Conflicts of Interest programme in September. Darach delivered an excellent and insightful paper on his observations and experiences while researching his latest book which tells of a Protestant marching band in Castlederg, Co Tyrone.

To read his paper, click below

Blood & Thunder

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Marie Jones and Ian McElhinney, sometimes described as the first couple of Ulster theatre, met in the Waterfront hall with a Newtownabbey group that had just completed a Conflicts of Interest course. The well-known couple presented certificates of achievement to thirteen citizens of the borough who had undertaken the course delivered by project coordinator Oliver Corr and Dr Alan Bruce of Universal Learning Systems.

The group, convened by Ms Kathy Wolff under the auspices of the Newtownabbey Community Relations Forum, met weekly over the past months and all agreed that the experience enhanced their understanding of the Northern Ireland situation.

Talking with the course participants before the couples’ new production ‘Rock Doves’, Marie Jones and her husband Ian congratulated the group on its accomplishment and then told them of the relevance in the play’s message of underlying social difficulties afflicting our society.

“It was an entirely appropriate conclusion to a very useful course”, Ms Wolff told the Conflicts of Interest team.

Roy Garland addresses a group from Monaghan VEC

In early March, Conflicts of Interest delivered a course to participants from County Monaghan VEC. The course took place over a three day period and involved study in Monaghan and a research trip to Derry city where participants heard from a wide range of expert speakers including Eamonn McCann, Laurence McKeown, Brian Feeney and Billy Moore.

Monaghan VEC attend Conflicts of Interest course

♦ N.B. Conflicts of Interest strongly advises groups interested in this course to contact the promoter and discuss their training needs and to carry out an analysis. Conflicts of Interests is happy to assist with this process.