North-West region
About
About the region
Our network provides a focal point for engineers of all grades and disciplines, and proactively encourages their continuous professional development through delivery of a varies programme of lectures, seminars and networking events.
We are keen to promote closer links with the Institute of Technology, Sligo. The Institute regularly hosts regular Engineers Ireland events including career days and lectures and the regional KNEX challenges. Recently they have begun to webcast these lectures for the benefit of the region and beyond.
The North-West region has hosted high profile events such as the Irish round of the World Rally Championships.
Who can join?
- Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
- Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
- Local government and semi-state organisation workers involved in engineering
- Academic researchers, lecturers and students
How to join
If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Sligo or Leitrim when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with the North-West Region network.
If your correspondence address is outside these 2 counties, you can still join our network through the Members Area
It is free to join our network.Once you register as a member of a network, you can choose to:
- receive email updates on all events being run by the North-West Region network
- use our network's discussion forum
- post comments on articles written by other network members
- comment on our network blog
- send messages to other members of our network
Events
North-West Region network members receive invitations to a wide variety of educational and social events throughout the year, including:
- CPD-approved evening seminars and lectures delivered by experts across a broad range of engineering topics
- site visits to regional projects of interest
- up to 8 golf outings per year in clubs throughout the region
- an annual dinner and annual table quiz
Contacts
Chairman & Council Representative
- Michael O'Halloran
- Chartered Engineer
- Stiefel Laboratories
- Finisklin Industrial Estate
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9161626
- Mob: 086 8383259
- Email: mohalloran@stiefel.ie
Vice-Chairman
- Seamus Lee
- c/o Vincent Hannon Associates
- Abbey Street
- Sligo
- Tel:071 9150022
- Mob:087 6841447
- Email: slee@vha.ie
Secretary
- Rowan O'Callaghan
- RPS Consulting Engineers
- 4 The Mall
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9138909
- Mob: 086 3854167
- Email: rowan.ocallaghan@rpsgroup.com
Treasurer
- Damien Henry
- Chartered Engineer
- Sligo Area Engineer
- Sligo County Council
- Market Yard
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 911952
- Mob: 086 2398210
- Email: dhenry@sligococo.ie
PR Officer
- Emer Concannon
- Road Design Section
- Sligo County Council
- Market Yard
- Sligo
- Tel: 071 9111951
- Mob: 087 9681776
- Email: econcan@sligococo.ie
Events
Details of our autumn and winter programme of events will be posted here in September.
Papers
The North West Region papers will be available to view shortly.