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Life After Covid – We Look to Europe for Inspiration Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would start a blog grappling with Bonnie Tyler’s immortal words from the 80s hit song Holding Out For A Hero; ‘’ Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need...

Why are we not all gripped by enthusiasm for The Billionaire Space Race? The battle between Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to ‘’slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God’’, as Ronald Reagan might say, hasn’t quite caught the public’s imagination. Maybe that’s because we’ve actually seen it all...

Working Smarter, Not Harder Not a day goes by that an invitation is offered to discuss the future of work, be it working remotely, hybrid working etc. One of the critical areas businesses are now getting laser-focused on is the way we work, both in terms of remote working and utilising new technologies which save...

Gareth Southgate’s team approach winning hearts and minds, as well as games What we find extremely masterful is the team approach. When it comes to reflecting on the success to date of the England team at the Euro 2020 tournament, played out during this summer of ‘21. Many of us still remember the successes of...

Euro 2020 – Sports stars biting the hand that feeds them As the group of sixteen come together for another week of the Euros, many eyes will be on the antics of the footballing stars giving post-match interviews. A week ago, incidents such as Paul Pogba removing a bottle of Heineken from the table at...

Irish For Biden Campaign welcomes nomination of new US Ambassador to Ireland The Irish For Biden Campaign has welcomed the nomination today (Thursday 24th June) of Claire Cronin as the new US Ambassador to Ireland. Ms Cronin has been a strong support of President Biden and was a key figure in his election campaign. The...

Get ready, get set, holidays 2021 As the people of Israel prepare to dispense with the mask, indoor or outdoor, we need to be every mindful that if history is anything to go by, this pandemic is with us for a while yet. Even as Europe and North America are rapidly rolling out the vaccine,...

And now for something completely different Life used to be so simple. Pay the television license once a year (or don’t) and you got access to it all. Every channel available, or one yearly bill. You didn’t need to worry about missing anything. It was either on Channel One, or Channel Two. Things got even...

EU Gears up for Carbon Battle It was a very early start for Taoiseach, Micheál Martin as he set off to Brussels today for a major two-day summit which is expected to be dominated by discussions on the EU meeting its carbon emissions targets. Hopefully, he has packed a pair of his Dad’s old boxing...

What do you do when you get a finger in the post? For the past seven days, the Irish health system, known as the HSE, has been held hostage to a cyberattack and a €20 million ransom. This cyberattack has generated substantial media coverage globally. Informed and well-placed intelligence sources have told us that the...