b'AROUND THE WORLD GREAT BRITAIN1 2 34 5TheIrelandFundofGreatBritainLadiesLunchOCTOBER, 2014 The afternoon started with a champagne reception at Simpsons in the Strand. Ruth McCarthy,1Norma Thomas, Anne Gorman, former Chairman of the IFGB spoke about the importance of having so many powerful women come together for suchMargaret Deal2Susan Hayes an event. Laura Canavan Hayes, the Chair of the event, gave a warm introduction of both guest speakers for the lunch,3Ros Hubbard, Ruth McCarthy, Ros Hubbard of Hubbard Casting and Susan Hayes of Hayes Culleton. After coffee and dessert, Caitlin Duffy, DirectorLaura Canavan-Hayes, Susan Hayes Cullotenof the Young Leaders thanked everyone in attendance and announced a special treat for one person at every table. One4Laoise Hayes and Guestslucky guest at every table was treated to a 100 voucher from Emma Manley for her 2014 AW14 Collection. The raffle5Caitlin Duffy, Ros Hubbard, Susan Hayes, Sean Hendersonincluded some great prizes including a piece of art from Olga Fitzpatrick, a gift voucher from Dublin Young Leader Chloe OConnor to her website Loveletters.ie, and a hamper of Irish homemade beauty products from ANU. Special thanks to everyone who contributed to the raffle and making the afternoon such a success, including Conde Nast who generously contributed a copy of Vogue to every gift bag and Mary Conlon Almassy for her generous support. A very special thank you to Selfridges, not only were they our event sponsor but they put together the most wonderful gift bags as a takeaway.MichaelFlatleyLordoftheDanceOCTOBER, 2014Michael Flatley & The London Palladium welcomed a group of 200 Irish pensioners to watch a perfor-mance of his new show Lord of The Dance Dangerous Games. Michaels generous invitation was a once in a lifetime opportunity for many of them to experience the thrills and excitement of a West End show. The event was organised by Bernard McEvoy, Irish partner of Brown Rudnick law firm in conjunction with The Ireland Fund of Great Britain who kindly allocated the tickets to the various Irish pensioner groups based across London which the IFGB supports.The Lord of the Dance himself, Michael Flat-ley, personally greeted the group and happily posed for photo-graphs and signed autographs. 1connect2015 | 94'