A Major Events Conference is being held on Saturday 17 January 2015 at a location West of Dublin.
Some of the topics to be discussed will be :-
Should the 2014 IOC Long Distance event have been postponed or cancelled?
Are Championship courses for the youngest and oldest competitors too tough, and if so how should they be planned differently?
What is the correct map scale for elite long distance competitions?
Do clubs staging multi-day events have enough resources to stage them and if not how can they be staged in the future?
How financially viable are multi-day events?
The proposed revised Guideline for C2 Long Distance or \'Classic\' competitions will also be discussed.
The Conference will be chaired by Mary O\'Connell, Chair of IOA, and speakers will include Angus Tyner, Coordinator of IOC 2014, Frank Ryan, Coordinator of the Irish Three Day, and Ruth Lynam, Controller of the IOC Long Distance. It should be of particular interest to those involved in staging major events, and to their Controllers.
Fuller details will be published nearer the time.
Harold White
Controller of Technical Standards

Correction
In the original notice for the Major Events Conference, I incorrectly stated that the Chairperson was going to be Mary Healy when in fact it is going to be Mary O\'Connell, the present Chair of the Association. Many apologies to both Marys\' for this error.
Harold White