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Aug/Sept 2010 www.esb.ie/em

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Mick Loughane, Group HR, making a presentation to Joan on the occasion of her retirement.

Joan Lynam retires

JOAN LYNAM retired on June 18th, ending a very varied career that spread across Projects Department, External Activities, ESBI, ‘Bright Ideas’, Corporate Change, Group Partnership and the Equality & Diversity Office. Joan's decision to retire on VS is the latest step in a life marked by a sense of adventure and openness to the world.

Joan and her partner Frank are very keen travellers and have visited all five continents. They have been to Africa, Asia, Australia, China, North America and most recently, the Galapagos Islands and the Amazon.

Joan's compassionate nature isn't restricted to faraway places. She is no stranger to the bogs, wetlands and hills of Ireland, and is a keen champion of biodiversity in the urban landscape. This is illustrated by her rescue of a tiny scraggly fledgling bluetit nicknamed Tweety. Joan fed Tweety with a dropper, kept it warm and dry in a nesting box in her garden. Tweety recovered and later raised a fine family of five. Joan and Frank recorded Tweety's progress via a remote camera, and this nature success story was featured in a live interview on Radio One's ‘Mooney Goes Wild’.

Joan's career has been marked by dedication, commitment, fun, laughter and generosity. We wish Joan and Frank endless years of adventure, health and good fortune.

O’Callaghan Family

The first family to trial the ecars

ESB ecar trials are underway with domestic charge points installed as well as Mitsubishi iMiEVs ecars being handed over to the first eight trial participants in July 2010.

Paul Mulvaney hands over the keys of a Mitsubishi iMiEV ecar to Ciaran O’Callaghan, ESB Rosbrien in Limerick, one of the lucky participants in ESB ecars trial. The O’Callaghan home is one of the first to be fitted with an ecar charge point, fitted to the outside wall of the house.

Ciaran O’Callaghan, ESB Medical Provident Fund, his wife Denise and their two children Nicole and Alex.

ESB GAA Champions

ESB are continually adding value when it comes to the Championship

WE ARE very fortunate in the fact that ESB boasts, in our locations around the country, some of the GAA's most decorated players. A select group of these former All-Ireland winners and current employees make up the ESB GAA Champions Team and are being used in various promotional activities, in both print media and radio, to leverage our association with the GAA Minor Championships, and to extend our key messages of ‘Positive Energy’ throughout this year's Minor Championship.

The champions are:

• Leinster – Joe Dooley, Property Manager, ESB Networks (Holder of three All Ireland Senior hurling medals with Offaly and now Offaly's senior county manager).
• Connacht – Paul Clancy, ESBI Asset Management (Holder of two All-Ireland Senior football winners medals with Galway in 1998 and 2001).
• Munster – Ambrose O’Donovan ESB Networks Killarney (Holder of three All-Ireland senior football winners medals and captain of the All-Ireland winning Kerry Senior football team that defeated Dublin in centenary year 1984).
• Ulster – Jamsie McHugh, ESB Networks Killybegs (Holder of an All-Ireland senior football winners medal with Donegal in 1992).
• Munster – Conal Bonnar, Fleet & Equipment Manager, ESB Networks (Holder of two All- Ireland Senior Hurling medals with Tipperary).
• ‘Mags’ Finn – (Aghada Generating Station. Holder of four All-Ireland senior camoige medals with Cork.)

“we look forward to your support for the rest of the Minor Championships

ESB Chief Executive, Padraig McManus, pictured with the GAA Champions. Back row (l-r): James McHugh, Conal Bonnar and Paul Clancy. Front row (l-r): Joe Dooley, Mags Finn and Ambrose O’Donovan.

Our intention is to fully support the ESB GAA Minor Championships throughout the remainder of the summer to its conclusion, continually looking for new avenues to add value to the Championship and also to promote our strong association with it.

For now, we look forward to your support for the rest of the Minor Championships where the new ESB Minor Champions will be crowned in Croke Park on All Ireland Hurling Final Day, Sunday September 5th, and All Ireland Football Final Day, Sunday September 19th.

Eugene Dalton retires

Mick Loughnane with Eugene and his family at the presentation.

EUGENE DALTON recently retired form Group HR, where he was associated, for many years, with Corporate Learning and Development. For many colleagues across ESB, Eugene was synonymous with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development HR for Line Managers Programme, where he acted as Programme Director for several years. More recently, Eugene was centrally involved with the IMD Executive Development Programme for senior managers. This included a programme on Performance Conversations and Coaching Skills for senior managers with Prof. George Kohlrieser of IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Eugene was also involved in a number of business innovation projects, including an Innovation Workshop for CS&GS SMT, and support for the last Dublin Innovation Week. He was also active with Dublin Institute of Technology in promoting initiatives in a number of primary and secondary schools, aimed at introducing teens and pre-teens to mathematical and science concepts in an engaging and interesting way.

For all who met Eugene over the years, from apprenticeship right up to executive director level, they will remember his great kindness, approachability, sound guidance and the quiet authority which he used so effectively to draw the best out of people, for their own personal benefit and that of ESB. We wish Eugene well after his long and generous service to his colleagues across the company.