The lecture will be given tomorrow, Thursday 9^th February at 2pm by Inspector Niall Featherstone. The lecture will take place in F209

Niall Featherstone is the current Chief Crime Prevention Officer in the National Crime Prevention Unit and Crime Call Office. His major area of expertise is in the area of promoting crime prevention . He will be basing his talk and discussion on - Crime prevention and the Role of the Garda National Crime Prevention Unit.

Desmond Travers, a retired Irish soldier and peace keeper, will be speaking about his experience of life with the military and of certain international military operations of which he has been directly involved with. He served as an officer in the Irish Defence Forces for 42 years. He retired in 2001 as Colonel and Commandant of the Military College in the Curragh Camp.

During his military service he served tours of duty in Cyprus, the Middle East, Israel and Lebanon. He also served as Chief of Operations to the EU Monitoring Mission in Croatia and Bosnia.

In 2003 he was asked to participate in the war crimes training programme in a new Institute - The Institute of International Criminal Investigations (The Hague), which had been formed primarily for that purpose. He became a director of the Institute in 2004 and is now its Vice President. In early 2009 he was asked to form part of the UN fact finding mission into the Israeli military operations in Gaza, and those findings were published in what has become known as the Goldstone Report. The Goldstone Report will be the subject of this talk.

Update - Mr Desmond Travers is pictured here with some of IT Carlow's Law students following his talk on February 7th.

Mr Lonergan will speak on his experience in the role and will touch on the reality of prison life, drugs in modern society and other topics.

Update:  Mr Lonergan is pictured here with some of IT Carlow's Law Society student members following his talk on February 6th.

Date: Wednesday, 11th January 2012

Time: 2.30pm – 4.30pm

Location: Institute of Technology Carlow, Kilkenny Road, Carlow

       
A CAO Information Session will take place at the Institute of Technology Carlow on Wednesday 11^th January 2012, 2.30-4.30pm   This session is for Mature Applicants, FETAC and VTOS students and Organisations involved in getting people back to education.

Information Stands set up in the Exhibition area as follows:

• CAO Application procedures – help and advice on CAO application procedures – computer access will be available on the day for those applicants wishing to input their application online
• Course & Career opportunities for the School of Business & Humanities
• Course & Career opportunities for the School of Engineering
• Course & Career opportunities for the School of Science
• Course & Career opportunities for the Wexford Campus
• CAO Applications - Grants &Fees and Financial Assistance
• Student Services & Supports and Clubs & Societies
• FETAC information stand

CAO 2012 application deadlines

• Applicants have a choice of either applying online on the CAO website www.cao.ie or making a paper application by post.  You must apply by 1st February 2012.   CAO forms are available from the CAO Office in Galway, 091 509800

      Closing Date: 1st February, 2012, 5.15 pm

      Normal application (online or paper) €40 

      Discounted online application up to 20^th Jan 2012, 5.15 pm €30

• Late Application Closing Date: 1st May, 2012 5.15 pm (note in certain cases, such as restricted courses, application must be made by1st February because of assessments and interviews.  Also Mature applicants may not be allowed to make a late application – check with the individual Institutions Admission Offices before submitting a CAO application)

Late application online €60.    Late paper application €80.

• Latest Date for Change of Mind: 1st July, 2012 5.15 pm (note Mature applicants may be able to change the order of choices but it may not be possible to introduce new courses - this needs to be checked with the specific third level Institutions)

The Central Applications Office can be contacted at: CAO, Tower House, Eglington Street, Galway. Tel: (091) 509800.

Postgradute research and innovation

Date/Time/Location: 15 November

Details:  Postgraduate students from the department of Science and Health and staff from the institutes Innovation centre will host an information session for undergraduate students who are considering a career in research or in starting their own business.

Oak Park visit

Date/Time/Location: TBC
Co-ordinator: Dr. Thomae Kakouli-Duarte

Details:  Research staff, undergraduate and postgraduate students from the department of Science and Health will visit the Teagasc Crop Research centre, Oak Park, Carlow.

Presentation by Greg Johnson, NASA astronaut

Date/Time/Location: 16 November 2011 (10, 12, 2), C149a, IT Carlow campus
Co-ordinator: Dr. David Ryan

Details: NASA astronaut Greg Johnson will share his experiences of space flight and the International Space Station.

Meet the scientist at Carlow library

Date/Time/Location: 17 November, Carlow library
Co-ordinator: Dr. Rosemary O’Hara

Details: Dr. O’Hara will present an interactive talk to primary school children on science. 

Dan O'Brien, Economics Editor of the Irish Times, will be in IT Carlow on Monday, 14th November, 2011 to talk about "Ireland, Europe and the euro: Past, present and future prospects".

This is a public lecture organised by IT Carlow's Department of Humanities.

Dan O'Brien is economics editor of the Irish Times. Before joining the newspaper in June 2010, he was a senior economist and editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, an arm of The Economist Newspaper Group. In a dozen years in that role he specialised in European affairs and in global trade and investment issues. During that time he commented frequently in the international media, for broadcasters such as CNN and the BBC and in print, for newspapers such as the International Herald Tribune and the Financial Times.

Dan has also worked for the external service of the European Commission and as a consultant for the United Nations and Forfas. He has lived and worked in Italy, Spain, Belgium, Malta, Britain and Switzerland.  His book "Ireland, Europe and the World: Writings on a New Century" was published in October 2009.