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TRAVEL INFORMATION
This mail should hopefully include all remaining details you need for the meeting in Maynooth, but I will still be here to field any further
enquiries. However, we have just been informed that our email services will be disrupted from 14.00 to 18.00 (Irish time) tomorrow (Thursday), so
please contact me before that, or use the phone (00 353 1 7083836) with any problems.
1. Venue
The venue for the meeting will be the Glenroyal Hotel, Maynooth (Tel. 3531 6290909,
Fax. 353 1 6290919, email: hotel@glenroyal.ie, web: http://www.glenroyal.ie). All participants who have requested accomodation will
be staying in the hotel. The hotel includes a leisure club you will be able to use, including a very nice (but strangely shaped!) pool, sauna, jacuzzi,steamroom, gym etc.
2. Transport
Except where participants have made other arrangements, you will all be met at the
airport, and taken directly to the hotel. Look out for taxi driver holding a sheet of paper with your name, in the Arrivals Hall at Dublin
Airport. in some cases I have doubled up on taxis where flights are arriving within half an hour or so, in which case you may have to wait a
short while. Do not pay the taxi driver. I will be making a block payment to the taxi company for arrivals (you will be responsible for paying for
taxis back to the airport - if used - on Sunday).
3. Friday evening
Dinner in the Hotel will be at 20.30, but I suggest an informal get together in the bar at 20.00 would be nice. The dinner is included in the
hotel fee for the residential delegates. People not staying in the hotel, but who wish to join us for the dinner, should let me know.
4. Hotel fees
The hotel charges IR£ 95 for each residential delegate, which covers the following:
Friday dinner
One night Bed and breakfast (no distinction between single or sharing) Saturday morning and afternoon coffee
Saturday lunch
Hire of Conference room
There will be a charge of IR£ 65 for additional nights B&B (reduction for
sharing).
There is also a charge of IR£ 25 for non-residential delegates, covering tea/coffee, lunch, and room hire.
Residential delegates will be expected to settle a single bill covering the costs (in most cases IR£ 160) directly with the hotel, on checking out.
5. Saturday evening
At present we are flexible about Saturday evening. All being well, the Scientific session should be finished by 16.00 (ie postdocs will be
liberated!) and the PMC meeting by 18.00. Some people may like to spend the evening in Dublin. I know that some others would like to remain in
Maynooth. For those, it gives me the opportunity to show you around the rather pleasant old campus at the University in Maynooth (the College
chapel, and the buildings designed by Pugin are particularly fine). I would suggest a walk of about one hour taking in the old campus, and a brief
look at the Biology Department. Later I would arrange a meal at an inexpensive restaurant (probably
Chinese) in Maynooth.
For those who would like to go into Dublin for the evening, it is easy by both bus and train. Saturday departure times of trains from Maynooth to Dublin Connolly
Station (journey about 40 minutes): 0800, 0915, 1005, 1026, 1209, 1305, 1505, 1604, 1700, 1910, 2059.
Buses (numbers 66 or 67) are more frequent (typically about every 20 minutes), and although the journey is slightly longer (c. 50 mins.) they
terminate at a more central location in Dublin (Middle Abbey Street). Both bus stops and train station are just across the road from the hotel. I
think the buses are a better bet, especially as you have to use them to get back to Maynooth in the evening (the trains are basically a shopping and
commuter service). The last bus (No. 66) from Middle Abbey Street Dublin,to Maynooth, is at 23.30.
I believe the hotel may have small tourist maps of Dublin available (I will check this).
Please could those interested in the meal in Maynooth on Saturday evening indicate to me, so I can make a provisional booking at the restaurant.
6. Miscellaneous
A colleague of mine (with whom we collaborate) at another Institution, University College Dublin, Dr. Paul McCabe, has indicated be would be
interested in attending the scientific session. He is a plant cell biologist with particular interest in
programmed cell death in plants. If anybody has an objection to him attending, please let me know.
I think that's all, but if I think of anything else, I'll send another mail later.
Looking forward to welcoming you all.
Phil
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