Venue: Fairways Hotel, in Dundalk from 9.30am to 3.00pm.

Speakers:

• Peter Donegan - - Peter Donegan is the series garden designer for RTE television’s DIY SOS The Big Build Ireland. In 2001 aged 24, Peter Donegan Garden Design was borne and swiftly won a host of awards for 17th & 18th century gardens & show gardens at national competition.April 2019 Peter designed at RHS Flower Show Cardiff winning Silver & in 2020 was accepted to design at RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show. Selected to represent Ireland to design & realise the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden at Chateau de Peronne (2018). He returns to design there in 2022 the anniversary garden of Europes largest war museum.
• Eanna NiLamhna - Irish biologist, environmental consultant, radio and television presenter, author and educator. She is one of the best-known public figures in Ireland in the area of nature and the environment, and was listed as one of Ireland's "Influential 100" in 2012.
• John Gibbons - an Irish environmental campaigner and the founder of the climatechange.ie website. He also co-founded the healthcare publishing and communications specialists MedMedia Group. For two years he contributed a weekly column to The Irish Times, analysing aspects of climate change and sustainability. His work has also appeared in 'The Guardian' and Sunday Tribune
• Padraic Fogarty - Pádraic Fogarty is an ecologist and environmental scientist who was chairman of the Irish Wildlife Trust from 2009-2013, editor of 'Irish Wildlife' magazine from 2009 to 2017 and currently acts as their campaign officer. He is author of 'Whittled Away - Ireland's Vanishing Nature', published in 2017.