Archive for September, 2006
Bertie’s bother
Wednesday, September 27th, 2006Sadly not enough time to talk properly about this whole incident, but I’ll quickly throw my 2c into the ring and hopefully return to it in more detail later.
(this post is a bit rushed)
Ahern’s statement on RTÉ News tonight has been an interesting one and I’ve no doubt that opposition offices are currently burning the […]
Back in blog
Sunday, September 24th, 2006As the rest of today’s blog posts can confirm, I’ve had a pretty productive first week at the Sunday Business Post, something I hope will continue for the remainder of my month’s work experience there.
Any fears I had of being the tea-boy were quickly distinguished and I was given plenty to do on numerous topics […]
Dancing diggers to woo farmers (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from the Sunday Business Post:
A massive television audience may be focused on Co Kildare for the Ryder Cup this weekend, but this year’s World Ploughing Championships, to be held in Co Carlow from Wednesday to Saturday, will cater for more than the number of people at the K Club this weekend.
More […]
FG plans to lower minimum age for TDs (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post:
Eighteen-year-olds would be free to run for seats in the Dail should a policy adopted by Fine Gael this week lead to constitutional change.
Article 16.1.1 of the Constitution (pdf file) states that only citizens over the age of 21 are eligible to become TDs. However, Fine Gael’s […]
Lack of interpreters for foreign nationals (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post:
Foreign citizens living in Ireland could receive harsher treatment by the courts and may even be wrongly convicted due to a lack of qualified interpreters in the country, according to the author of a new report to be published this week.
The report by the Royal Irish Academy […]
Three Northern parties at Clinton conference (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post:
Leaders of three of the North’s four main political parties attended the second Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting held this week in New York.
The aim of the meeting, which ran from Wednesday to Friday and was hosted by former US president Bill Clinton, was to bring […]
Family firms ‘must stand up for themselves’ (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An aritcle of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post:
Hotelier Liam Griffin believes that the concerns of family businesses are going unnoticed because the sector has failed to represent itself until now.
The Wexford man, who owns a chain of hotels in the southeast of the country, said that while business owners were probably the hardest working […]
Canali suits Ryder Cup Europeans (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post:
The story goes that while on a visit to Ireland in 2004 Ian Woosnam dropped into one of Louis Copeland’s shops, tried on a Canali suit jacket and made the immediate decision to have the company dress the European Ryder Cup team at this weekend’s tournament.
The Welsh […]
Five things to do in Birmingham (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006An article of mine from the Agenda section of today’s Sunday Business Post:
In a nutshell: Once the industrial heart of England, Birmingham has managed to reinvent itself in recent years as a stylish and vibrant second city with much more to offer than you might first think.
Recently moving away from its reputation as a concrete […]
Builder joins the ‘jet set’ with €8m plane (SBP - 24th September 2006)
Sunday, September 24th, 2006Scanned article of mine from today’s Sunday Business Post (not available online at present):
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