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The Ireland Fund of New Zealand has been quite busy
of late, devising new ways creating the most support
for Special Olympics World Summer Games 2003, which
takes place in Ireland.
The Board of Trustees hopes to help to send the
New Zealand team on its way to the games and raise
media coverage. The Fund has focused its energies
on a fun event it titled "Galfcuig". This
roughly translates as Five-a-Side Golf.
The day's festivities will take place in February.
See the events page for further details.
Irish National Stud student David Hanratty, the third
recipient of the Cambridge Stud Breeding Bursary has
settled in well and staff at Cambridge has noted his
'great rapport with all the staff' together with his
professional approach to his work. The bursary is now
in its third year and so far all of the bursars have
impressed their New Zealand host, Sir Patrick Hogan
KNZM CBE.
In the opposite direction, Canterbury musician Brendyn
Montgomery became the first New Zealander to take
a place at the prestigious Irish World Music Center.
Brendyn is starting a Masters degree in Irish Traditional
music and says the opportunity is a "dream I
have held for a long time". Helped on his way
by the Ireland Fund of New Zealand, he has been described
as the "brightest light in his generation of
traditional musicians" and has been playing the
flute and tin whistle for the past fourteen years.
Dr. Douglas Simes, lecturer in Scottish/Irish Studies
at Waikato University is the first winner of the Irish
Literary Studies Travel Bursary. Dr. Simes has traveled
to Dublin to further his knowledge of similar courses
in Ireland and Scotland and will visit his counterparts
at Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin
and Queen's University Belfast. Funded by founding trustee
and Honorary Consul General of Ireland, Rodney Walshe
ONZM, the bursary has been organized with Waikato University.
The program in Scottish / Irish Studies is the first
ever program of its kind in New Zealand.
The Ireland Fund of New Zealand welcomed three new
trustees on to the Board this year. George Foss, a
native of Antrim and General Manager of exporters
Panamex Pacific; Mary Horgan from Cork and Vice President
of Airport Services with Air New Zealand; and Damien
Smith from Enniskillen and Consultant with McQuarie
New Zealand. Our new supporters have volunteered their
efforts for the foreseeable future and have been providing
The Ireland Fund with fresh ideas, not to mention
the benefit of their collective business acumen. |
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