On behalf of the IES committee, I would like to invite you all to Cork for the 50th Annual Meeting of the Irish Endocrine Society, which will take place on Friday November 13th and Saturday November 14th 2026. 

Location: 

The meeting is being held in University College Cork – www.ucc.ie The oral presentation components of the meeting will be held in the Aula Maxima, a historic building at the heart of UCC – 

https://www.ucc.ie/en/heritage/places-and-spaces/aula-maxima/

The poster exhibition and the industry stands will be accommodated in nearby Devere Hall. The RCPI STC meeting and the IES subgroup committee meetings will be in meeting rooms upstairs from Devere Hall. UCC is a city centre campus and parking is limited. It is well served by public transport and is within walking distance of numerous hotels, as well as the city centre. Here are some useful links:

Maps – https://www.ucc.ie/en/discover/visit/maps/ 

Parking – https://www.ucc.ie/en/discover/visit/parking/ 

Transport – https://www.ucc.ie/en/discover/visit/getting-here/ 

Accommodation: 

The main hotel for the meeting is the Kingsley Hotel – 

www.thekingsley.ie 

The IES have block booked a number of rooms for Friday November 13th for use by meeting attendees – to book a room, please contact the hotel directly. The discounted rate is €240 bed and breakfast. You can call the hotel directly on 021 480 0500 or email 

reservations@thekingsley.ie and quote “Block 768159 or Irish Endocrine Society Annual Meeting” to avail of the discounted rate. As outlined above, parking is limited at UCC. We are therefore putting on a shuttle bus to transport attendees from the Kingsley Hotel to UCC and back again, on both Friday and Saturday. Exact times for this will follow at a later date.

Registration: 

Registration for this meeting will open on Monday September 14th and close on Friday November 6th. Registration is via the IES website and is accessed by logging into the members’ area Members-Area | Irish Endocrine Society – only active members will be able to access this area. 

Of note – the sign-in desk at the meeting is being manned by an events management company this year, rather than an IES committee member. Anybody who shows up who has not registered in advance will have their membership status checked and if they are not active members, they will be charged 90 euro to attend the meeting. 

Gala dinner: 

This year’s IES gala dinner will take place in the Kingsley Hotel Cork at 20.30 on Friday November 13th, preceded by a drinks reception at 19.30. When you register for the meeting you will receive an email inviting you to purchase a dinner ticket. These are 90 euro per person. Early purchase is advisable to avoid disappointment! 

Abstracts: 

The list of accepted abstracts, as well as a draft programme for the meeting, will be circulated very soon. For those who are awarded poster presentations – the poster should be put up on the morning of Friday November 13th and left up for the duration of the meeting. Velcro adhesive will be provided. For those who are awarded oral presentations – you will be asked to submit your slides to the event management company in advance of the meeting – please liaise with Karen O’Neill (sales@excellentchoice.ie). 

I hope that as many of you as possible can attend what promises to be an excellent meeting.