Roscrea Training Day - Updated 13/07/2010
Forty five Lions from 15 clubs in Region 6 and a handful of other progressive clubs north and south came to Roscrea on Saturday June 26th for a half day media skills training event.
The event was organised by Region 6 Chair Liam Doab and the members of the Regional PR committee chaired by VDGE Ciaran Mullooly from Roscommon Lions Club.
DG James got the event underway at 10.30am and in the following four hours leading club members were given expert tutorial workshops on how to work effectively and efficiently with local papers, local radio and use the Lions brand to the benefit of their clubs. The tutors were Eddie Coffey from the Daily Mail, VDGE Ciaran who worked in local radio some years back and Heather Yaxley from the UK. Bill Blake from Multiple District was also there to help out but the stars of the show were Paddy Gollogly and Mick Murphy from Carrickmacross Lions Club who stunned the gathering with their profile of the public relations their club attained when they organised their twins festival event recently. The Monaghan club showed how it should be done with some style. Well done lads!
At the end of the event in Roscrea VDG Sean Sandford gave an update on the District's new website that is presently under construction and Ciaran Mullooly confirmed that a new district magazine will also be published before Christmas this year. The next media skills training event for regions 1 and 2 is planned for Armagh in October. For further details please contact VDGE Ciaran Mullooly at - roscommonlionsclub@gmail.com
Finally - the Regional PR team is made up of Danny Bohan (East), MalcolmDawson (North), Bernard Grieves and Teresa Dineen (South and Ed Horkan (West)
Download Lions Media Interview Guide.pdf , Lions Club PRO Guide.pdf, Eddie Coffey Presentation.ppt