Following on from yesterday's highly successful fringe events, there are four on offer today at 1pm, across the car park in the Brehon Hotel.

• Presentation of Inaugural Fórsa Members' National Awards in The Brehon 2

The presentation ceremony for the first annual Fórsa Members' National Awards. Nominees from across the country and all divisions competed for recognition in seven categories: delivering for members, organising, campaigning, recruitment, community champion award, branch effectiveness, and outstanding pandemic response. Outgoing President Michael Smyth will be presenting the awards to this year's successful candidates.

• Justice for Colombia in The Brehon 1

In conversation, Justice for Columbia introduce Francisco ‘Pacho’ Toloza, a former congress member, former political prisoner, trade unionist and peace campaigner. He is a political analyst and sociologist at the National University, Colombia’s largest university, and a member of the SINTRAUNAL trade union for university workers. In 2016-17, he served in the National Congress as a spokesperson for peace under the terms of the 2016 peace agreement with the FARC. Justice for Colombia has worked closely with Pacho Toloza for several years in campaigning to strengthen worker rights, human rights and peace.

• High Density - High Participation Organising in the Park Suite

International speakers from sister unions discuss how to convert recent success into sustained growth and increased power in Fórsa leading into the next round of pay negotiations. In the United States there has been a resurgence in workers getting organised in the public sector and winning big. In the UK there has been a wave of industrial action not seen since before the 2008 crash. This fringe event explores what we can learn from our sister unions and approaches to organising? 

• The Asian Hornet Queen in the Munster Suite 

The Irish Beekeepers Association and Tipperary South Health & Community Branch have organised this fringe meeting. A dire warning of the oncoming disaster of the invasive Asian Hornet. The Asian Hornet arrived in Europe through the Port of Bordeaux in 2004, and has since spread North, through Cherbourg and into the UK. Aggressive and venemous, the Asian Hornet is not only a serious risk to human health, it destroys food crops, pollinators and honeybees. This fringe event delves into the climatic impact of this coming infestation.