Conference
AN INDEPENDENT IRISH FOREIGN POLICY
A Future?
3rd/4th September 2010
The Teachers’ Club, 36 Parnell Square, Dublin 1, Ireland

Session 1 Friday 3rd September 7.30pm
Registration 7.00 - 7.30pm
Opening Address Jimmy Kelly, Irish Regional Secretary, Unite the Union
IRELAND AND THE UNITED NATIONS
Speakers Senator Mark Deary, Green Party Foreign Affairs Spokesperson
Dr. Ed Horgan, International Secretary of PANA
Padraig Mannion, Research Officer of the Workers Party
Dick Roche TD, Minister for European Affairs
Chair Noel Dorr, former Secretary-General of the Dept. of Foreign Affairs,
author of ‘Ireland at the United Nations’
Session 2 Saturday 4th September 10.00am - 1.15pm
Registration 9.30 - 10.00am
IRISH FOREIGN POLICY
10.00am - 1.15pm
Speakers Seán Barrett TD, Fine Gael Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs
Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett, People Before Profit
Joe Costello TD, Labour Party
Joe Higgins MEP, The Socialist Party
Aengus Ó Snodaigh TD, Sinn Féin Spokesperson on Foreign Affairs
Chair Michael Youlton, Co-Chair of the IAWM & Executive member of PANA
Workshops 11.45am - 1.15pm
THE IRAQ AND AFGHAN WARS
Facilitator Marnie Hollborow, IAWM
BURMA
Facilitator Gary Kilgallen, Burma Action Group
THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
Facilitators Seamas Ratigan, PANA
David Hutchinson Edgar, Irish CND
IRELAND, THE EU AND THE FOREIGN, SECURITY & DEFENCE POLICY
Facilitators Patricia McKenna, The People’s Movement and Patrick Jackman, PANA
LATIN AMERICA
Facilitators Simon McGuinness, the Cuba Support Group Ireland and
Jose Antonio Guttierrez, LASC
Lunch 1.15 - 2.00pm - Soup & Sandwiches for sale at the bar
Session 3 2.00pm - 6.00pm
HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION –THE NEW IMPERIALISM?
2.00 - 3.30pm
Speakers Maurice McQuillan, Humanitarian Programme Manager of Trócaire
Prof. John Maguire, Afri
Paul O’Brien, Overseas Director of Concern
Chair Gary Honer, The Labour Party
Workshops 3.45 - 5.00pm
HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS
Facilitator Jim Loughran, Frontline Defenders
PALESTINE
Facilitators David Landy, National Organiser of Irish Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Dr. Azam Tamini, Palestine Rights Institute
CLUSTER BOMBS
Facilitator Tony D’Costa, Chair of Pax Christi
EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION FLIGHTS, SHANNON AIRPORT & WAR
Facilitator Noeleen Hartigan, Director of Amnesty International
John Lannon, Shannonwatch
ANGLO-IRISH RELATIONS
Facilitator Roger Cole, Chair of PANA
Workshop Reports 5.00 - 5.45pm
CLOSING REMARKS
Roger Cole, Chair of PANA
Cllr. Richard Boyd Barrett,
Chair of the IAWM
6.00pm Close of Conference

Admission €10 for conference
or €5 per session.
Please post to PANA with name
and address to confirm place at
the conference
To attend the conference or for more details contact:
Roger Cole
Peace & Neutrality Alliance
Dalkey Business Centre
17 Castle Street, Dalkey
Co. Dublin, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 1 2351512 / 087-2611597
email: pana@eircom.net
web: www.pana.ie
Or
Michael Youlton
Irish Anti-War Movement
PO Box 9260, Dublin 1, Ireland
Tel: 00 353 1 4983620 / 086-8159487
email: info@irishantiwar.org
Web: www.irishantiwar.org
The Irish Independent Foreign Policy
Conference is organised by PANA
and the IAWM and sponsored by
Unite the Union