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We wish to thank Ambassador Sheehan, Mrs. Sheehan, the Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief, Kevin Moran - and of course the nearly 140 guests that danced and sung the night away with us last Saturday! We had a super line-up of traditional Irish dance, live music, great grub and copious amounts of drink. Somehow we also managed to raise a tidy sum of money for charities and good causes during the course of the evening, thanks very much to the gene

Thank you to all the families (30 adults and children in total!) that made last weekend in Pec pod Snezkou such a fun event!

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A Big Shout-Out to Blake Wittman for the excellent presentation last Thursday on the new trends in recruiting and how GoodCall are addressing the challenge. Fascinating insights and good lessons for both employers and employees. We will post a link here to download the presentation in a few days. Thank you to all for attending.

A big shout-out to Peter Wojtusiak and CBRE for the insightful and entertaining deep-dive into the Czech real-estate market. Attendance...

A huge thank you to everybody who made our Christmas Dinner such a success this past Friday at The James Joyce Irish Pub. We especially would like to thank the wonderful Irish Dancers, the impromptu Wham! revival group (watch video below), the staff of The James Joyce and our sponsors (Warehouse#1 - Guinness, wine, Teeling Whiskey; Elisa Selmi - brunch vouchers; Eoin Hanley - mince pies; Diarmaid De Burca - Pilsner Urquell). We look forward to seeing you all again soon at one

Story Theatres present: “Journeys” - an original play based on family histories. all are welcome to join on December 9th and December 10th in Divadlo D21. More information in the poster. Hope to see you there!

On behalf of the Embassy of Ireland in Prague, all CIBCA Members are cordially invited to a public reading of Irish poet Biddy Jenkinson, which will take place in Café Kampus, Náprstkova 10, Prague on Tuesday, 20 November 2018 at 19:30. The reading will be in Irish and Czech and will be accompanied by a lecture in English.

Join Bonita Rhoads, co-founder of InsightCities.com for a scholar-led tour of Prague. Learn about Art Nouveau, Cubist Architecture and the First Republic – 2 hrs walking tour for teens (13+ yrs old). More information and for booking, please visit the ClassActs website here. This 2-hour tour helps Prague teens explore the radical design aesthetics that flourished in their city at the turn-of-century. We discover the links between Art Nouveau and Cubist architecture and the cr

The Czech-Irish Business (& Cultural) Association was founded in 1995, and over the years has hosted hundreds of events. Above and beyond the business, family, sports and cultural get together's, what brings us most joy, is the ability to make meaningful contributions to charities and "good causes" with the proceeds of moneys raised from our Members at our events. If you are reading this (you know who you are!), we wish to thank you for making this possible. The CIBCA Commit

A huge thank you to Brand Embassy CEO, Vit Horky, for sharing his insights with us last night. We learnt about the challenges of founding a start-up, going global and staying focused. We encourage everybody to buy Vit's book, due to be published this November on Amazon. Thank you also to Derek for organizing the event and to the Irish Embassy for hosting it!

We had a great golf outing last week. Many thanks to Derek for organizing, and to Eoin and Paul for helping out! Players on the day: Blake Wittman Andy Newman Stephen Hill Jon Mortimer Mike Topham Erik Lantink Tom Kindermans Erik Gloersen (sorry if we missed a name! Please ping us and we'll correct this post)