Landing the Moonshot We have heard a lot of talk in recent days and weeks about ‘moonshots’. As the United Kingdom has now won the race to be the first country in the world to begin to roll-out a vaccine, we should not overlook the significance of this global event. In late February of this...
The Vaccine War is Coming In a year full of trauma and upset, the race to produce a vaccine is nearing the finish line with a number of companies going for FDA approval in the US. We are in the final chapter of this disease, if everything goes well. As they say, good news comes...
Joe Biden and the Irish Connection ‘’Northeast Pennsylvania will be written on my heart. But Ireland will be written on my soul’’ – Joe Biden, 2016 No other country in the world has a closer affinity with its diaspora in the US than Ireland, and no other country takes as much pride in the...
The Land of the Free As America counts its election, the whole world looks on. It was a rollercoaster of an election night, which turned into a rollercoaster of an election week. Tuesday, the day of the election, matters looked like the former Vice President Joe Biden was cruising towards an easy victory, with...
Warning: Trump Can Prove the Polls Wrong Once Again With hours to go, President Trump looks the odds-on favourite to lose the upcoming US election. However, his supporters will be taking solace in his 2016 victory when he proved the polls wrong. The question is, with most pollsters releasing their final polls over the weekend,...
Rights and Responsibilities ‘’if smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.’’ – Mark Twain An interesting morsel of news which caught the eye last week from the UK, where Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London said it was OK for their employees to smoke at work if they were working from home....
Leading your team through a crisis Since Covid-19 first arrived on our shores six months ago, we have seen he most extraordinary feats of performance under pressure. We have seen nurses and doctors working around the clock under desperate conditions to keep their patients alive, risking themselves in the process. We have seen the Government...
Have a clear strategy to emerge from crisis times ‘’The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted, it belongs to the brave’’ is an inspirational quote by former US President Ronald Reagan that takes pride of place in the office of Paul Allen & Associates. Paul Allen & Associates is a Dublin-based public affairs and...
Getting Back to Work – Mixed Messages and Lack of Strategy As we are all recovering from the shellshock of the past two weeks and preparing for more shellshock in the next two weeks, out of the darkness comes the British Government, which is planning this week to launch a media ‘blitz’ (as they are...
The Art of the Big Interview Its hard to put an exact date on when the media landscape changed forever, but when it did we lost the ever-present heavyweight interview, where the well-known broadcaster interviewer, would gaze into the eyes of a similarly well-known person and pose a series of difficult questions. Ever since the...
