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Moving to the RDS

Gaelcon has move to the RDS due to the recent flooding in the D4 Hotels. For more information please follow our Facebook pages and Twitter #Gaelcon.
If you have booked accommodation with the hotel you should be fine, but they will be in contact with you should anything change/cancel.

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Roleplaying Games

Each and every year, Gaelcon has an extensive and exhaustive range of Table Top Roleplaying Games. Starting at 11am morning and running until the small hours of the morning. Gaelcon once again offers a fantastic selection of RPGs.

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Live Action Roleplaying Games

Every year Gaelcon offers some of the very best LARPS that Ireland can offer. LARPs at Gaelcon range from Thud: The Musical to the steampunk of Space 1889! Costumes are always welcomed!

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Card Games

This year Gaelcon hosts AEG’s Legend of the 5 Rings European Championships! But not only that but we’re offering some fantastic tournaments and open formats of Magic : The Gathering, Pokemon and Yu Gi Oh!

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Figure Games

With the return of the Warhammer 40,000 and Fantasy tournaments, War Games is gearing up for another year! Gaelcon will also be hosting a WarMachine and Hordes tournament alongside our open play Figure Games, such as the Battle of Endor (v2.0).

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Special Events

Gaelcon has always been known to have some fantastic Special Events like last year’s Live Action Space Hulk. For this year we plan on holding a unique Blood Bowl tournament and many more interesting and unique games.

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Boardgames

This year we'll have a boardgames desk with a selection of games available to borrow subject to a deposit. For the serious boardgamers out there we're running a challenge where points can be scored for playing games with a winner at the end of the convention.

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Social Events

Gaelcon 2011 has a great selection of social events running throughout the weekend for you to choose from. The IGA Charity Auction is, as always, the highlight of the weekend, where funds will be raised for various well-deserving Irish charities.

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Timetable

Plan and organize your 4 Days of gaming madness at Gaelcon. This timetable and prebooking forms are subject to change without prior notice, we will try and keep the website updated and relevent. Doors open 6pm on Friday and 10am every other day.

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Entry Tickets

4 Days of gaming madness at Gaelcon! Avoid any disappointments by buying your tickets online! For the first time ever you can purchase your Entry and Event tickets fully online!!

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Flooding/
Venue Update

Due to the recent flooding, Gaelcon has move to the RDS Hall 7. @Gaelcon | Facebook for more information

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Closing Online Sale

We have closed our online store, however we will be selling tickets on the day! Pre Books can be collected at front desk.

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L5R Euro Champs - Still on!

AEG is glad to announce that the 2011 L5R European Championships will be held at Gaelcon 2011!

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IGA Charity Auction

The IGA Charity Auction has helped raise over €275,000 in pledges to children's charities over the last 16 years.

Land Ho! - To the RDS!

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Due to the recent flooding in Ireland, Gaelcon has been forced to move the RDS Hall 7. Directions can be found on our Directions page which will be updated.

Keep an eye on the facebook page or twitter account for up-to-date information!

#Gaelcon @Gaelcon for our Twitter Feed

http://www.facebook.com/gaelcon for our Facebook Page.

A Map of how to get to the RDS Hall 7 can be found here.

Friday Night
Due to having to change the venue at such short notice, we won't be opening our doors on Friday (L5R Euros follow here). However we will be meeting up in Oil Can Harry's on Friday 6.30 on wards, we'll be meeting and greeting and running the Geekest Link.

Saturday
We will be opening our doors at 10am on Saturday Morning. Please be patient as there might be long queues.

What about my Hotel Booking?
Update on accommodation in the D4. They have done an assessment and they are closing the hotel completely until the 3rd. You can contact the hotel on 353 (0) 1 4373 444, or by email at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , though they will be contacting everyone with bookings shortly.

As far as we know, bookings will be transferred to alternative venues in the vicinity and there will be transport arranged from these new venues to the RDS. We understand this is going to be inconvenient for many attendees, and we really appreciate all your patience and understanding with these changes.

What about the events that I've booked?
At this moment in time we're trying to re-organize and jig the floor plan and timetable, so changes will be made but we'll try and keep to the original timetable as much as possible. We'll try and keep people notified of any changes the best we can.

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L5R Euro Champ & Flooding

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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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A Fine Mahook to you all....

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ask not what your Con can do for you, but for what you can do for your con?

 

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

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