Carlow local receives recognition award from Fáilte Ireland for pivotal role
Congratulations to Paul Horan!
Carlow Native and Trinity College Dublin Nursing Professor receives a National 2023 Failte Ireland Conference Ambassador Recognition Award
Failte Ireland's annual Conference Ambassadors Recognition Awards was held on Wednesday 22nd November 2023 in Dublin’s Intercontinental Hotel.
The Conference Ambassador Recognition Awards honours individuals who have played a pivotal role in bringing international association conferences to Ireland between 2018 and 2022.
Carlow man Professor Paul Horan, from Assistant Professor of Intellectual Disability Nursing at the School of Nursing & Midwifery Trinity College Dublin, and his colleague Jeni Ryan, Administrative Officer-Events were recently honoured with a National Failte Ireland Conference Ambassador Recognition Award for their leadership in bringing two large international intellectual disability nursing conferences to Ireland which celebrated nursing care for people with intellectual/learning disabilities.
Carlow native Paul was the former Director of Nursing Services at St. Patrick’s Centre for People with Intellectual Disabilities (now Aurora) in Kilkenny.
Horan and Ryan were organised two very successful international conferences, the 14th International Positive Choices Intellectual Disability Student Nurse Conference and the inaugural International Positive Commitments Conference for qualified intellectual/learning disability nurses, which were hosted simultaneously at Trinity College Dublin on the 19th and 20th April, 2018.
These conferences involved collaboration with Fáilte Ireland, students and staff from the Intellectual Disability Nursing Discipline at the School of Nursing & Midwifery, former Dean of Health Sciences at TCD, Prof. Mary McCarron, Professor of Ageing & Intellectual Disability from the School of Nursing & Midwifery, TCD, Liane Donnelly, Head of Central Events at TCD and her team, Helen Laverty MBE and her team at Positive Choices in the UK and Debra Moore and her team at Debra Moore Associates/Positive Commitments in the UK.