Our Venue is Booked!!!

Yes, our venue is booked! We did a lot of research on trying to find the most accessible location in the whole country. And we did a lot of soul-searching on it.

We were fully focused on finding a location that would work for the most people. We wanted to find a venue that people from outside of the greater Dublin area would travel to without causing too much stress and expense. But we also wanted a venue that people from inside the greater Dublin area would find worth the traffic battle and accessible by public transport.

For those of you who have to travel the furthest distance; if you make the trip, we will promise to make it worth your while!

Myself and Christine drove to view our potential venue last Sunday. It took us 2 1/5 hours from Ennis, Co. Clare with one pit stop. AND we didn't get lost a single time. That's saying something for a couple of culchies!!! Seriously!

We feel, and we hope you do too, that we have found THE closest to perfect venue.

So, without further ado,.....

The Thrive-abetes; Thrive with Type 1 Diabetes Conference will take place on Saturday, 3rd of October 2015 in The Glen Royal Hotel on Straffan Road in Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

The Glen Royal is perfectly located just off the M4 at Exit 7 (Maynooth Exit) on the edge of Maynooth town. And when I say just off the M4, it is 2 kilometres from Exit 7.

The Maynooth Train and Bus Station is 350 metres from The Glen Royal. Yes, we checked! Google maps states that this is a four minute walk.

Maynooth is on the:
Dublin - Maynooth/Longford/M3 Parkway Train line
Bus Eireann by the No. 20  buses.
Dublin Bus No 67

* This information may not be completely accurate, it was very difficult to navigate the Irish transport websites to find this information (!?!). Please let me know if I have posted incorrect information. Thanks in Advance.

The Glenroyal Hotel Maynooth includes full leisure centre with 2 pools, Glenroyal Beauty treatment rooms, great bar and restaurant, free parking for guests,  and free wireless internet for delegates.

It is ON!!!
Gráinne.

Thank you Diabetes Community for your support!

The Irish Diabetes Community has been so supportive of this event and we are truly appreciative and thankful for it.

I had lots of queries about Thrive-abetes after last week's post and lots of excitement around the confirmation of Helena Farrell as our third speaker.

So, in an effort to address further queries and make information easier to find I have rearranged some of this blogs pages. Namely on the right hand side of the page a list of pages, including Conference Speakers and a draft of our conference programme.

We are still working on finding our perfect venue with one more to view. But myself & Rebecca are extremely eager to get this item put to bed.

We also have a raffle planned to raise our funding shortfall of €2,500 with a SIGNED 2014 Six Nations Ireland rugby shirt on offer, which was very generously donated by Davina Lyon and John O'Reilly from Diabetes T1 Ireland. Plus, two weekends away to give away kindly donated by Maura Tierney from Friar's Lodge Guest House in Kinsale, Co. Cork (I could actually use one of those right now;-)

Once our raffle license arrives we will announce details on how you can buy raffle tickets and we will also be asking for volunteer ticket sellers. Five hundred tickets seems like a big number but many hands should make light work of it!

Our 3rd Conference speaker has confirmed

We have our third speaker confirmed for Thrive-abetes; Thrive with Type 1 Diabetes Conference. 

Drum roll please!!!! Helena Farrell from Diabetes Insight will discuss Diabetes Burnout with our group of adults with type 1 Diabetes. 

Helena Farrell is originally from Charleville, Co. Cork, but now is married and lives in Bandon Co. Cork. She graduated as a registered general nurse from Cork University Hospital in January 2000, where she began her working life as a staff nurse in a general medical ward in the CUH, which specialised in diabetes.

During her time on this ward, Helena gained many qualifications in lifestyle management such as nutritional therapy, addiction studies, psychotherapy to name a few. After five years on the Diabetes ward she transferred to the Diabetes Day Care Centre in the CUH where she worked as a Nurse Educator, gaining experience on the many aspects of diabetes education.

In September 2006, Helena left the CUH after ten years, to take a career break. But not for long, as during this time she was approached by Dr. Sheila O’Sullivan, Consultant Physician, to establish a private diabetes service in Shanakiel Hospital, Cork, which has gone from strength to strength and is now independently based from the Cork Health & Lifestyle Centre, Blackrock, Cork and is known as Diabetes Insight.

Diabetes Insight provides a number of services in many different areas such as Dietary Planning for Type 1 & 2 Diabetes and Psychological Supports using Life Coaching and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy.

For further information on Diabetes Insight's services please click here