Community

Midlands region

The Midlands Region covers Offaly, Laois, Westmeath and Longford.

Midlands region

About the region

Our network provides a focal point for engineers of all grades and disciplines, and proactively encourages their continuous professional development through delivery of a varied programme of lectures, seminars and networking events.

We have developed close ties with Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT). Members of our network committee include staff from AIT, and the institution plays host each year to a number of our evening lectures and seminars.

Who can join?

Engineers and engineering technicians working in the region
Engineering consultancies and support servicing companies
Local government and semi-state organisation workers involved in engineering
Academic researchers, lecturers and students

How to join

If you are already a member of Engineers Ireland, and gave a correspondence address in Offaly, Laois, Westmeath or Longford when you joined, you have automatically been affiliated with this network.

If your correspondence address is outside these 3 counties, you can still join our network through the Members Area.

It is free to join and once you area registered with our network, you can:

receive email updates on all events being run by the Midlands Region network
use our network's discussion forum
post comments on articles written by other network members
comment on our network blog
send messages to other members of our network

Events

Midlands Region network members receive invitations to a wide variety of educational and social events throughout the year, including:

CPD-approved evening seminars and lectures delivered by experts across a broad range of engineering topics
information evenings on achieving a registered title
golf outings in clubs all around the region
an annual general meeting for the Midlands Region network

Contacts

Chairman

Michael McMahon
Chartered Engineer
Department of Civil, Construction & Mineral Engineering
Athlone Institute of Technology
Dublin Road
Athlone
Co. Westmeath
Tel: 091 776789
Mob: 087 2905767
Email: mmcmahon@ait.ie

Vice-Chairman

John Jordan
Wirtgen Ireland Ltd
Enfield Industrial Estate
Trim Road
Enfield
Co. Meath
Tel:046 9549421
Mob: 087 6994479
Email: john.jordan@wirtgen.ie

Secretary

Damien Grennan
Kippinduff
Castletown
Geoghegan
Co. Westmeath
Tel: 044 26819
Mob: 086 8068688
Email: dgrennan@offalycoco.ie

Treasurer

Alan Slattery
Great Water StLongford
Co. Longford
Mob: 086 8137470
Email: aslattery@longfordcoco.ie

PR Officer

Pat Pilkington
Chartered Engineer
Elmville
Syngefield Road
Birr
Co. Offaly
Tel:090 6454306
Mob: 087 2500820
Email: ppilkington@offalycoco.ie

Liaison Committee Rep

Paul Riordan
Chartered Engineer
Rathcolman
Ballymahon Road
Mullingar
Co. Westmeath
Tel: 044 22450
Mob: 086 2520348
Email: paul.riordan@bnm.ie

Events

Construction of the C Link and Clonmore Bridge, Mullingar

Date: 20th September, 2010
Time: 8.00pm
Venue: Annebrook House Hotel, Mullingar
Admission: Free. All welcome.

About the speaker: Tony Dempsey, Roughan O'Donovan