Dublin experienced a month's rainfall in four hours yesterday. As a result of this, our venue has flooded.

Since finding out about it at lunchtime, both the Gaelcon organisers and ourselves have been planning away, and we have come up with a Plan B.

THURSDAY:

Visitors arriving Wednesday and Thursday are advised to head to our local gaming store, Gamers World.1 Jervis Street, Dublin 1. Locals will be hanging out there, and should be able to point you to various venues for food etc. We'll also be handling enrollment for pre-registered players there on Thursday night from 6pm-9pm, so if you want a bit of a lie in on Friday morning we'd advise doing that, and it would make our lives much easier to know who had arrived etc.

As you leave the airport terminal there'll be a number of buses heading for the City Centre. Take one to O'Connell Street (should be 6 euro). The Spire is the ridiculous metal spike on O'Connell Street, and once you've found that this map should get you to Gamers World, it's a fairly straight run down a main shopping street and then an arterial road, shouldn't be much more than five minutes.

FRIDAY:

The Friday Qualifiers will be held in the Stillorgan Park Hotel (map). This is also serviced by the Air Coach. The following buses go from the City Centre, and have a specific stop outside the venue, these links include details on each stop in the route:

116 Towards Whitechurch

145 Towards Kilmacanogue

46a Towards Dun Laoghaire

47 Towards Belarmine

7b Towards Shankill

7d Towards Dalkey.

The number 47 runs between the original venue at the D4 and the Stillorgan Park Hotel, and should cost €1.85 each way.

From the D4 Hotel to the Stillorgan Park Hotel

We are currently investigating other methods of getting from D4 to Stillorgan Park Hotel and will have further details both in the D4 on Thursday night and in Gamers World on Wednesday and Thursday night.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY:

The rest of the weekend (Saturday and Sunday's official events, and Monday's unofficial ones) will be happening with the rest of Gaelcon in the RDS. This is near to the original venue (500m straight down a main road), and can be reached via the Dart to Lansdowne road or the following buses that leave from Nassau Street (beside Trinity College, just off Grafton Street)

4 Towards Monkstown Avenue

7 Towards Loughlinstown/Cherrywood

45 Towards Bray (Oldcourt).

ACCOMODATION IN THE D4 HOTEL:

As far as we've been informed rooms booked in the D4 Hotels are fine unless you hear directly from the Hotel themselves, in which case they will sort out new accommodation for you.

We advise again that if you get into the city before Friday that you head to Gamers World at some point, where we should be able to provide more information and even give quick tours to where the relevant buses stop.

If anyone is in or near the D4 hotel and is worried about getting from there to the Stillorgan Park Hotel on Friday please contact me on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 00353872250662

My apologies for this inconvience.

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Hello all and welcome to the official site for Gaelcon 2011.

I'm Dave Gorman and I was lucky enough to be elected Con Director at the IGA's AGM. I would like to thank the IGA for that vote of confidence in me, I really enjoyed my year as Leprecon Director, and am looking forward to the task of directing Gaelcon.

As you all know, it takes more than even the best Con Director (which I am far from) to run any Convention. So, how am I going to run this Convention you ask? Well, I'm very glad you asked me that, as I have a fantastic Committee with members from around the country to make Gaelcon once again the national convention. This hand picked team will once again help ensure a very enjoyable Gaelcon for all and I couldn't do this job without them, so thanks guys/girls for giving up your free time to help me out.

That's all for now, if you have any questions please get in touch via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it If you're interested in submitting a game, or just volunteering to help over the weekend, the relevant submission forums or guidelines should appear soon.

Dave Gorman
Con Director Gaelcon 2011