World Veterinary Year
The Veterinary Council of Ireland hosted special ceremony on 14th February 2011 at 2.00pm in the Royal Dublin Society Concert Hall to mark World Veterinary Year 2011. The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, attended the ceremony as guest of honour. The Veterinary Council has decided to mark this important year for the profession by awarding commemorative medals to veterinary surgeons who have served the profession on the island of Ireland over the past 50 or more years. Veterinary surgeons who have been registered in Northern Ireland for the same period were also invited to receive a medal. The world’s first veterinary school was founded in Lyon, France, in 1761, shortly followed by the Alfort veterinary school, near Paris, in 1764, both of them at the initiative of French veterinarian, Claude Bourgelat. By setting up the world’s first veterinary training institutions, Bourgelat created the veterinary profession itself. Thus, 2011 also marks the 250th world anniversary of the veterinary profession.
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