Ireland day 0429. Thursday 01 December 2022- iCRAG Croke Park *

Ireland day 0429. Thursday 01 December 2022- iCRAG Croke Park

Today’s summary	Val was working at the museum and at the castle and I was at an iCRAG conference at Croke Park all day. Met John Fitzgerald – Ireland’s leading economist and son of a former Taoiseach
Today’s weather	Dry and bright but not much sun. Light southerly wind. About 10C

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of my route)		Close-up location (The green line shows where I walked) (No GPX today)

Commentary

(Summary blog only. Last full blog was Day 0368).

Val was on a “double shift” again, so I attended an all-day conference at Croke Park GAA stadium, on geoscience research in Ireland, organised by the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geoscience (iCRAG).

Very interesting if occasionally a bit dispiriting to be reminded how drastically human beings have already degraded the environment and affected global climate. But a lot of good research going on and it felt good to be back at a real “in person” conference again after an absence of many years.

I also had an interesting chat with John Fitzgerald, a leading energy economist in Ireland (I subsequently discovered that his father was Garret Fitzgerald, a former Taoiseach, and his brother founded Sherry Fitzgerald, Ireland’s main estate agency. An impressive family).

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


So here’s the December rose, to add to my annual collection	Croke Park this morning from Jones’ Street

Inside the main conference hall. I estimated at least 200 attendees	Carefully manicuring the pitch – complete with immaculate stripes and artificial light to make the grass grow



Croke Park in the moonlight as I was leaving this evening. A spectacular sight