FORMER HOSTAGE BRIAN KEENAN TO ADDRESS GALWAY CONFERENCE

Date Published: 14-Jun-2007

Former Beirut hostage Brian Keenan is to address an important 2 day social conference which gets underway in NUI Galway today

International experts from the fields of Child Care, Social Work, Psychology and Sociology will address the need to ensure families are resilient to stress and tragedy.

Guest speaker Mr Brian Keenan will reflect on how he used coping skills learned in his childhood, to cope with captivity and social isolation during the four and a half years in which he was held hostage in Beirut in the 1980s.