Chairman's Update
- Gabriel McKeonChairman
April 2008
I am delighted to write to you to bring you up to date with the developments at our new Club premises in Tudor Street, recent social events, the growing excitement about the resurgent Irish Club and the imminent Annual General Meeting.Read more
Club's Membership
[3rd November 2007] Extract from latest November 2007 newsletter
Membership has reopened at the present subscription rate until it is revised in January 2008. Anyone who now joins (or rejoins) at this time, will have the benefit of the present rate until renewal falls due twelve months from the time of payment, the remaining months will be payable pro rata for the remaining months of the calendar year of 2008.
In future, annual subscriptions will fall due on 1st January each year. (see Revised Rules). Members will be interested to learn that we have already had several enquiries about membership from Irish people working in the Fleet Street and City area, although we have not yet launched our major marketing effort.
This Newsletter is also being circulated to lapsed members, where records allow; we know there are many who lapsed and were unable to rejoin when the membership was closed for the good reasons current members understand. It would be impossible to contact all of them, so if you know someone who would like to rejoin please make them aware of this and ask them to write in to Tudor Street where the application will be dealt with. Click here to view membership application form.
STOP PRESS
[17th September 2007]
The Chairman and Council are delighted to announce that the City Corporation of London has today given its approval for the use of our fine new premises at 2-4 Tudor Street, London EC4Y OAA, as a private members' club-The Irish Club. (See photographs)
Securing this approval from the Corporation, for which we are greatly obliged, has overcome the second major hurdle on the road to the relaunching of the Club; the first was of course the finding and purchase of our excellent new clubhouse.
Other key steps, including the following, have also been taken: arrangements are well advanced for the recruitment of the executive manager whose role will be crucial to the success of the new club; planning is getting under way for the internal restructuring of the building; and an application for a liquor licence is in hand. While the granting of the latter cannot of course be assumed, we are optimistic that it will indeed be approved.
It is our earnest hope and expectation that the relaunched Irish Club will be open for business early in 2008, with a recruitment campaign getting under way much earlier. We are fully engaged in making all of this happen, but as the weeks unroll more and more information about the stylish new Club and how to become a member will be available on this website. You are cordially invited to browse it regularly.
The Chairman, Gabriel McKeon, and Council are very pleased to announce their recent acquisition of an eminently suitable new home for the Irish Club, after an exacting search that has lasted for some 4 years. On 5 floors, with a total area of more than 5,000 square feet, the new premises lie close to both Fleet Street and the excellent transport and other facilities of Blackfriars. It is a freehold building in good structural and decorative order.