Tag: Motivational Events
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Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveries
Read more: Istanbul 2013 – 5 new discoveriesby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk’s The Museum of Innocence is a long and sometimes tedious story of love gone wrong, told in the first person by an intensely annoying, socially privileged narrator…
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Bodrum: Wonders Never Cease!
Read more: Bodrum: Wonders Never Cease!by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Bodrum used to be called Halicarnassus, was the birthplace of Herodotus, the father of History and was home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – the Mausoleum…
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Cycling the Ring of Kerry – 180km in a day
Read more: Cycling the Ring of Kerry – 180km in a dayby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Cycling the Ring of Kerry – sometime after 04:00 A thin frame of bright light leaks out in the gap between the heavy drapes and the wall of the room. You reach for…
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Italian Diary – a Week in Italy
Read more: Italian Diary – a Week in ItalyBy Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Florence – 18 April 2013 I’ve visited Rocco Forte hotels in Brussels, Berlin, Prague and St Petersburg but this was my first visit to a Rocco Forte property in Italy, the…
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Smoke on the water, fire in the sky – Ovation Trophy Day 3
Read more: Smoke on the water, fire in the sky – Ovation Trophy Day 3Guest Post by Hugo Slimbrouck, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Ovation Global DMC Swiss Trophy Day 3 At 6am this morning, just when his fellow Irishmen had finally stopped singing in the bar, Padraic slipped silently away to attend a…
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London Calling: M&IT Awards, CONFEX and the Irish back at ExCel
Read more: London Calling: M&IT Awards, CONFEX and the Irish back at ExCelby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President MCI and Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Ole, Ole, Ole London’s Convention and Exhibition Centre, ExCeL, is etched in the hearts of most Irish people. For a period last summer it often appeared that…
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MadMen at the Rome Cavalieri
Read more: MadMen at the Rome Cavalieriby Padraic Gilligan, Managing Partner, SoolNua Don and Betty at the Hilton Rome Most fans of Mad Men, the US TV series set in a Madison Ave Ad agency in the early 60s, will recall the Rome episode from programme’s 3rd…
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California dreaming
Read more: California dreamingby Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Learning, Connecting, Being Inspired In his seminal book Meeting Architecture, Maarten Vanneste identifies education, networking and motivation as the 3 pillars around which successful meeting outcomes are based. Thus we go…
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Information, Inspiration and Vision: what happened at FICP Day 3 and 4
Read more: Information, Inspiration and Vision: what happened at FICP Day 3 and 4by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC Roger Dow: From Life Guard to Life Saver Roger Dow’s presentation to FICP on Tuesday AM was informative, inspiring and visionary and highlighted just how lucky the meetings and events industry…
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FICP Live in LA – Day 1
Read more: FICP Live in LA – Day 1by Padraic Gilligan, Vice President, Ovation Global DMC “LAs fine and the sun shines most of the time …” The approach by air into Los Angeles takes you over miles and miles of urban sprawl leaving you wondering whether…
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