National government – another plea
Good to see Matt Cooper articulating clearly the justification for FF and FG coming together at this time. He’s absolutely right – will have a negative impact for some of the current senior people. But we need this done – and now. Have commented on this previously: Calls for National Government What and who gets [...]
Irish Diaspora Conference
Image via Wikipedia Well done to David McWilliams and the Irish Government on the forthcoming conference with leaders drawn from the Irish diaspora. Reread the piece in the Irish Times earlier this week. Topics to include: the global economy: positioning Ireland for the upturn Ireland – the innovation island promoting brand Ireland through our global [...]
Climbed the reek Friday 28th August 09
Climbed the reek (Croagh Patrick) for the second time this year – last Friday. One of those days when visibility was ‘in and out’. The climb seemed easier than the last time – increasingly the traffic on the mountain is resulting in a more defined path up the mountain – even in the more difficult [...]
NAMA and the truth
It’s at times like this one is glad to see the Courts in action. At least we have some effort to argue both sides of the coin. A good example from the Liam Carroll case is reported in today’s Irish Times: ‘Property market may take decae to recover, court told‘. The propaganda machine is in [...]
Is the person and technology becoming one?
Learning to live with a pervasive internet
Reek Sunday – 26 July 2009
Image via Wikipedia As readers may be aware this blog takes its name from ‘the reek’ – the mountain, Croagh Patrick, located at Murrisk, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Each year we have ‘reek Sunday’ – when thousands of people descend on Westport – to climb Croagh Patrick. 26 July this year was particularly challenging – in [...]
Ireland – continuing to play our part on the world stage
In my working life (25 years since graduating from engineering school in Trinity College) I have never before experienced the challenges now seen in Ireland. At the time I commenced my training contract in KPMG (then SKC) in 1984 I recall many recently qualified accountants being very concerned for their future. In 2000/2001 – three [...]
‘Friends’ in facebook
Been making more use of facebook in the last few weeks. Hard not to – when 250m people are using it. Was discussing it with a few different friends. One said he uses it to keep track of/ stay in touch with people overseas, ie does not see a lot of benefit in using it [...]
Irish government to appoint a CTO?
So the government published its paper: Knowledge Society Strategy: Technology Actions to Support the Smart Economy. There is already plenty of comment – on twitter, in the blogs, on the news and there will be more over the next few days. Comments ranging from ‘a lot of waffle’, ‘telling us what we already know’, ‘where’s [...]