Irish Hawking Club AGM

[GameHawker]

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2009
10am SUNDAY MARCH 8th
Conyngham Arms Hotel, Slane, Co Meath (041) 9884444 / 9824155 / www.conynghamarms.com
Programme Opening 10.30am – Coffee/refreshments served
Guest speakers

11am – **** Bartlett Moorland and grouse management

12noon – Jo Oliver (International Wildlife Consultants) International Festival of Falconry

Lunch Presentation to guest of Honour Rowland Eustace in appreciation of a lifetime achievement for his services to falconry.

2.30pm – Presentation on South African Falconry by Hilary White and James Irons

3.30pm – IHC AGM Business

Also... Equipment suppliers will be present at the event. A raffle for prizes will also take place. Each Committee member is donating something. Members are encouraged to contribute too. It can be anything from a piece of falconry furniture to a bottle of booze. If you are unable to attend but still want to take part in the raffle, tickets are available from Secretary Neil Ross by post, and are priced at €1/£1 each.

[GameHawker]

Gamehawker will be attanding the Irish Hawking Club AGM on the 8th of March 2009 . Anyone wishing to order any equipment from use to save on postage please contact our office on 01952 680433

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[Cassini]

There will be a selection of Andrew Ellis prints available at the AGM- most mounted or framed, so ready to hang on the wall straight away!

They will be on the gamehawker stand.

Big thank-you to Carl for offering to take them along.

Donna and Andy

[Ross Ricks]

myself and keith are heading up for it,hoping to meet some other members up there

[GameHawker]

myself and keith are heading up for it,hoping to meet some other members up there

Look forward to meeting you.

Regards Carl

[RyanP]

wish i could go but i ain't a member

[GameHawker]

wish i could go but i ain't a member

I believe there is a open invite to encourage new members to the Irish Hawking Club.

Regards Carl

[Keith Barker]

I believe there is a open invite to encourage new members to the Irish Hawking Club.

Regards Carl

is there any other forum members attending the meeting on sunday?

keith

[Malcolm Edgar]

is there any other forum members attending the meeting on sunday?

keith

I hope I am Keith otherwise you're not gonna get your quail eggs:lol
Sorry just couldn't resist that.
M

[Cassini]

please all go along and see carl if you're at the event, he had a very stressful journey getting there, so give him your support.That's what we did over the phone last night, in between laughing LOL

mrs cassini

[Keith Barker]

please all go along and see carl if you're at the event, he had a very stressful journey getting there, so give him your support.That's what we did over the phone last night, in between laughing LOL

mrs cassini

can you enlighten us?
keith

[David9999]

is there any other forum members attending the meeting on sunday?

keith

I'm realy pee'd off that I cannot make it, due to our clay shooting club holding a registered shoot tomorrow. I would love to have met up with some of you guys.

I hope you all have a good time. My regards to all those attending.
David

[Cassini]

can you enlighten us?
keith

well there was a lot of swearing involved on his part, and lets just say if you speak to him probably best not to mention how useful maps can be!!!!!

mrs cassini

[Keith Barker]

well there was a lot of swearing involved on his part, and lets just say if you speak to him probably best not to mention how useful maps can be!!!!!

mrs cassini

i will ask him did he get there ok and keep my face streight!
keith

[Hawkmaster]

I just sent out a mass mail to all our Ireland registered members to hope fully boost the numbers!:supz:

97 have seen this thread at this time so we will see?

Good luck

[Keith Barker]

I just sent out a mass mail to all our Ireland registered members to hope fully boost the numbers!:supz:

97 have seen this thread at this time so we will see?

Good luck

how many irish forum members are ther paul?
keith

[Hawkmaster]

126 but probably more as some people think it is clever to say they live in Timbucktoo:wink:

[Midge]

hawkmaster ...where's my mailing ?
i'm going for sure looks like a fair decent day in the making ...sure whatelse would you be doing on a sunday ?

[Hawkmaster]

hawkmaster ...where's my mailing ?
i'm going for sure looks like a fair decent day in the making ...sure whatelse would you be doing on a sunday ?
Sent to brianl80@hotmail.com:wink:

[Ross Ricks]

didnt see you there midge,just want to say thank to carl for sorting me out with an excellent hawk box cheers fella,nice to put a face to a name;)

[Sean]

only seen this thread after the AGM last night, didnt know there were goign ross, i woudla said hello, but no face to put to the name lol

[Keith Barker]

had a good day out with the members of the irish hawking club yesterday in slane, met up with carl and collected my new gamehawker transport box and saved on the postage to ireland, that makes all the difference. the box was a quality product, workmanship was first class and should last me out for the duration.
the talk given by d ick bartlet on grouse management was very interesting including his display on remote signaling when his predator traps had been sprung, enabling the keeper to set more traps and just visit the ones that had been successfull when the trap sent back a signal to the reciever.

jo oliver presented her guidelines for the 2009 falconry festival where the irish hawking club will be represented including a slideshow of the 2008 festival.

hillary whites presentation of falcory in south africa also went down well with some smashing images of hawks and falcons being flown and the stunning scenery.
met up with some new faces, blasket, malcolm edgar (thanks for the eggs) edenjohnny and neil ross to mention a few.

the raffle held a wide variety of prizes donated by sponsors and committee members i was pleased to walk off with a print of a selection of south african accipiter foot sizes, i was surprised this was not one of the first to get snapped up, as well as a bottle of wine for the wife which caused a cheer when i walked through the door when i got home .
last but not least was a presentation to mr roland eustace who was awarded with a crystal trophy for his lifetime achievement to the falconry and the irish hawking club, roland sat while his apprentices of the past paid tribute to his dedication to falconry and thanked him for the knowledge he passed on to them in their early days of the sport , he compared falconry with his other passion bee keeping and stated that both were alike and the the falconer and bee keeper had to be patient in order to get results.
the round trip to meath was worth it, we set off at 5.30am from county waterford and arrived home around 10pm.
thanks to carl , andrew ellis and ben long for their presentations of falconry related material and the speakers involved, without them it would have not been worth the effort, not to mention the members and non members who attended.
regards
keith

[Ross Ricks]

well said keith,lol sean think i spotted yas alright but knew you were a grumpy git pmsl;)

[Blasket]

Enjoyed it too. Got home about the same time as you guys, although i didnt have to put up with some-one babbling away in a different language :lol: Good to meet you both ever fancy a run up this way give us a call
All The best

[Keith Barker]

Enjoyed it too. Got home about the same time as you guys, although i didnt have to put up with some-one babbling away in a different language :lol: Good to meet you both ever fancy a run up this way give us a call
All The best

ha ha james thats a cracker.
keith

[Ross Ricks]

ha ha pmsl james,i no mate hes very hard to understand aint he:wink:

[GameHawker]

ha ha pmsl james,i no mate hes very hard to understand aint he:wink:

Struggled all weekend trying to understand up guy's couple of non members where interested in relieving me of my dags. :lol:

Great meeting up with all that attended and i am hoping to be attending a few trials in Ireland at the end of September.

Lovely country and the next time a venture over I will have a Sat Nav won't make that mistake again.

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Carl

[Sean]

well said keith,lol sean think i spotted yas alright but knew you were a grumpy git pmsl;)
cheeky sod lol :o

[Midge]

Brilliant day , i thought , gave a good insight into the new structuring of the club , great turnout it seems compared to their last AGM . Roland Eustace ........what a guy , an absolute hoot and a great old geezer, and his comb-honey was gorgeous .
met a few of the members , didn't mingle enough to meet and make new aquaintances , saw some guys who we thought we recognised . ciaran recognised keith who parked his wee white van just as we drove into car park ....but such a legend he was too shy to approach him .
All in all a great day and brilliant presentations ....although if i'd one critism it would have been the moorland section ,,,,,,not that relevant to me nor anyone else I'd spoken to . perhaps it would have been more relevant to landowners or a shooting syndicate who actually had moorland ,however the falconry Festival presentation more than made up for it, that girl Jo was absolutely brilliant she was articulate, and informative.woohoo I hope to be going.

[Keith Barker]

Brilliant day , i thought , gave a good insight into the new structuring of the club , great turnout it seems compared to their last AGM . Roland Eustace ........what a guy , an absolute hoot and a great old geezer, and his comb-honey was gorgeous .
met a few of the members , didn't mingle enough to meet and make new aquaintances , saw some guys who we thought we recognised . ciaran recognised keith who parked his wee white van just as we drove into car park ....but such a legend he was too shy to approach him .
All in all a great day and brilliant presentations ....although if i'd one critism it would have been the moorland section ,,,,,,not that relevant to me nor anyone else I'd spoken to . perhaps it would have been more relevant to landowners or a shooting syndicate who actually had moorland ,however the falconry Festival presentation more than made up for it, that girl Jo was absolutely brilliant she was articulate, and informative.woohoo I hope to be going.

ha ha you are having a laugh midge!:butthead:
keith

[EdenJohnny]

Good day, I only live 10 mimnutes:supz: away, and I won a BOTTLE of WHISKEY. Woo Woo. Johnny

[Ross Ricks]

kinda noticed you slipped away as soon as you got ur hands on the bottle johnny pmsl

[EdenJohnny]

kinda noticed you slipped away as soon as you got ur hands on the bottle johnny pmsl

Yeah, had to sample it. No, I had a meeting to attend business(brown envelopes etc. )johnny

[Ross Ricks]

ya ya more like brown paper bag to put the bottle in to drink it lol

[EdenJohnny]

ya ya more like brown paper bag to put the bottle in to drink it lol

Yerah roit, LOL Its not finished yet, When ya coming up again.?