This past weekend, Westport hosted the Mayo Associations Worldwide Convention. The President of The Republic of Ireland, Mary McAleese and An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny addressed the crowd of over 400.
Messages of hope, enterprise, hard work and nature were divulged to the crowds from the two leaders.
Delegates from Cleveland, New York, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Toronto and Washington were present among others. The Dublin and Galway Associations were the organisers. A Louisburgh man, Paul Sammin, is on the committee of the Dublin Mayo Association and was therefore involved in the planning of the event.
Anne Marie Gibbons from Louisburgh, performed songs in her Mezzo Soprano style and received a standing ovation.
There were presentations on tourism, trade, commerce and industry under the headings of 'indigenous enterprise,' 'multinational enterprise' and 'energy.' The material in the presentations was informative, futuristic, practical and coherent.
Louisburgh was not mentioned in the context of the topics at all. I wonder how this came to be. Is there no body or bodies out there representing and promoting Louisburgh?
While the presentations were all about Mayo and they were all excellent, there is no Mayo Association organisation in Mayo. Perhaps this would be a valuable entity for the purpose of connecting with all the Associations worldwide and keeping the connection live and active and funneling ideas, industry and funding into the county?
Monday, May 30, 2011
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