Macon Celebrates British, Irish and Georgia Ties at Its ‘BIG Dinner’

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015

The “Big Dinner” as in – Britain, Ireland and the state of Georgia – took place at the Mandarin restaurant on Riverside Drive in Macon the evening of Sept. 15 in a display of hospitality for out-of-town guests including Shane Stephens, the consul general of Ireland for the Southeast.

Hosted the evening of Sept. 15 by Chris Smith, an attorney and the honorary consul of Denmark who lives in Macon, among the guests were Ember Bishop, the deputy commissioner for international relations at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, and Niki Mullin, the development manager for London-based LID Publishing, which publishes business books and magazines.

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