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We are thrilled to be associated with Animation, one of Ireland’s most dynamic and successful industries. Over the years we have been immensely proud to work alongside Animation Ireland as the sector goes from strength to strength and showcases its exceptional talent and ambition to the world. They have just launched this video to announce...
As we all consider unboxing the future and returning to work after life in lock down, how were the past few weeks for you? Challenging I bet. Here are some thoughts from a very good friend of ours who spends more time in Kerry now than in Dublin. Apart from his gifts as a renowned...
All the way from lockdown in the hills of Donegal, today’s blog has been written by our Paul Allen & Associates colleague Rory Sweeney, on the important things we’re all missing in the first four months of the decade. Rory Sweeney is an Account Manager at Paul Allen & Associates The Brittle Pillars of...
Many thanks to our great friends in the Business Post for including this great piece on the basics of Crisis Management in yesterday’s paper. When a crisis strikes, you must always tell a client what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. That’s according to Paul Allen, founder and managing director of...
Who’s Zooming Who? Not a day goes by that we are not exposed to a video conference call, but being asked to do a video call for television news? That is not a walk in the park. How has it been for you? In the past couple of weeks the broadcast media, principally television, has...
That Was the Week that Was— WHO, Trump and daytime telly star Eamonn Holmes. As the days blend in to daze, last week’s news threw up some very interesting and disturbing tales. None more odd than the pathway chosen by the President Of The United States Of America Donald Trump. You could be right to...
Never Waste a Good Crisis Never Waste a Good Crisis – On Day One of the national realisation that the situation had gotten very real indeed, our first Message of the Day was an old classic from Winston Churchill. The quote did more than give us a sprinkling of encouragement in the morning coffee. It...
We were very intrigued to read in the paper this morning about some linguistics experts in Lancaster University (?) who were encouraging politicians to ‘’stop talking as if we are at war and use positive language.’’ They said that ‘’Although hostile language could get across the seriousness of the situation, war metaphors risked encouraging people...
The European Institute of Public Relations invited Paul Allen to give his thoughts on ‘’If Ethics Matter’’ to a gathering of students on Monday 24th February. Here are some extracts from the talk: I would like to talk about where ethics and algorithms collide. While we enjoy living in modern times, sometimes when it comes...
Those of us who didn’t stay up all night to pore over every detail of the UK’s general election woke up on Friday morning looking bleary eyed at a big win for Boris and a crushing defeat for Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party.
