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Building Strategy in Turbulent Times Surely after the bleak days of the 2008 recession which saw Ireland being blown out of the water economically and financially more than even the global markets could have predicted, strategic thinking for the future should have been top of the agenda for every Irish business when it came to...

Paul Allen & Associates recieve European cybersecurity award Dublin-based public relations expert, Paul Allen, last night (Thursday 6th October) received a European award for his work in cybersecurity and managing public relations procedures around cybersecurity and data breaches. The EU Cyber Awards were awarded by the International Cyber Threat Task Force in a ceremony in...

Time of Change is Bringing Big Changes It might seem like an obvious point, but at times of great change like we have seen over the past three years, we begin to see big changes. Who would have thought that Covid would have had an massive impact on the digital transformation of business and how...

It has been a very long time since we heard the phrase ‘’one small step…’’ Now, fifty years on, Nasa has taken back control of space exploration with he launch of Artemis 1 today, starting at 13.33hrs. Nasa’s space shuttle programme stopped back in 2011. More recently, we have seen the creation of two private...

Another Bumpy Autumn Ahead Looking over the water at ‘Broken Britain’, as media commentators are now calling it, its Prime Minister and Chancellor are missing in action on multiple holidays, knowing full well they are in the last days of their time in office. Inflation continues to hit 40-year highs as the impact of the...

A bout of amnesia and the Tory leadership Spare a thought for the two contestants in the Tory race to become the next leader and the UK’s Prime Minister. In the past six years, the UK has had four Prime Ministers. It is clear that the two candidates have an agreement in place to exclude...

The Conservative Party’s Jeremy Corbyn Moment Looking across the water at the leadership election, it is hard not to draw some comparisons between the momentum behind Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader in 2015. The Conservative Party is having its Jeremy Corbyn moment. It feels important to say that this isn’t a...

He was part of the Queen’s University for most of his life as an honorary Professor, honorary graduate, law alumnus and former academic member of staff. His death has been greeted with deep sadness by its wider community and across these islands and beyond. David Trimble was a student of law from 1964 to 1968. He...

A question – What is the most disgusting, repulsive, obnoxious, vulgar thing we need to think about? – Personal Branding One of the most Irish traits we have is that most of us are deeply repulsed by the notion of talking about ourselves in a positive way. We are an extremely modest and self-depreciating people...

10 Books for Your Summer Holidays Summer has finally arrived and no better time for a review of some great book titles to flick through on a sunny beach or on the plane. In preparing for a few days away, here are a section of great books titles we have enjoyed over the years and...