Some Thoughts

Maintaining independence and trust

I wrote a little last week how many well meaning organisations and campaigns can struggle between the need to maintain independence and [...]

ThinkIrish.ie – an overdue follow up (part 3)

On Monday and Tuesday this week I published blogs here and here in follow up to my initial skepticism back in March [...]

ThinkIrish.ie – an overdue follow up (part 2)

Yesterday I published an overdue right of reply from Alan Graham of ThinkIrish.ie to my original post on their campaign back in [...]

ThinkIrish.ie – an overdue follow up (part 1)

Back in March, I wrote about the then new buy Irish campaign, ThinkIrish.ie. At that time, I reserved opinion on the campaign [...]

ValueIreland.com – 7 years old today

Happy Birthday to me, happy birthday to me. It’s 7 years ago this morning that ValueIreland.com was first published, right around about [...]

Government discovers great way to silence its critics – Give them an expense account

Since his Bord Snip report was almost completely ignored by the government when it was launched a year ago, Colm McCarthy hasn’t [...]

Yet again, the NCA is wasting their time, and our money

I really wish the NCA would do their job. The National Consumer Agency is a government quango set up, apparently according to their [...]

Seth Godin, time watching TV and meeting your goals

A couple of weeks ago, I was struck by a blog post written by Seth Godin – But it’s better than tv. [...]

Why we shouldn’t give the diaspora the vote

This post has been brewing for a while. A letter appeared in the Irish Independent some time ago that took a theme [...]

What did your parents teach you about money?

I loved the angle of this recent article on the Get Rich Slowly blog – What did your parents teach you about [...]