28-30th October & 25-27th November 2011 Event: Autumn/Winter Whale-Watching Weekend (2 nights) Location: Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork Cost: €90 Includes a years membership to IWDG (not including hotel package and boat) Bookings/enquiries: padr…@iwdg.ie When you think of whale and dolphin watching, we invariably think of long, lazy, warm summer days and calm, blue waters.  Right? We’ll you’d be wrong! A decade of sighting trends clearly shows the period October-November consistently produces the highest [...]

28-30th October & 25-27th November 2011 Event: Autumn/Winter Whale-Watching Weekend (2 nights) Location: Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery, Co. Cork Cost: €90 Includes a years membership to IWDG (not including hotel package and boat) Bookings/enquiries: padr…@iwdg.ie When you think of whale and dolphin watching, we invariably think of long, lazy, warm summer days and calm, blue waters.  Right? We’ll you’d be wrong! A decade of sighting trends clearly shows the period October-November consistently produces the highest [...]

International Right to Know Day, which takes place every 28 September, was established in 2003 by access to information advocates from around the world. Its aim is to raise awareness of every individual’s right of access to information. While much progress in this area has been made in the EU over the past decade, the fact remains that one third of the inquiries carried out by the European Ombudsman each year concern lack of transparency. [...]

One day Sphagnum identification course – Sun 16th October 2011 Tutor: Dr Joanne Denyer This workshop will introduce participants to the field identification of Sphagnum. The course will be focussed on Sphagnum species that are typical of Irish habitats and/or good habitat indicator species.  Participants will be shown the key field characters for Sphagnum identification and will practice keying out and identifying Sphagnum in the field.  The main habitats will be intact and cutover raised bog. Location: [...]

Tercentenary Evening Lecture ‘Botany in the University of Dublin-Incubation and Emancipation’ by Dr James White  Wednesday 5th October 2011 at 7.30 pm in the Lecture Theatre in the Botany Building, Trinity College Dublin Please note that car parking is not available on campus                                                                 Please R.S.V.P. lecture reservations by email to; Bota…@tcd.ie, upon receipt of the email so that we may determine numbers for the events. To mark the tercentenary we are hosting a series [...]