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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...
How the pubs could get open again Two vivid pictures come to mind when people think of lobbying and lobbyists Firstly, you think of Washington DC, big corporate interests and sharp suited lobbyists persuading congressmen with the aid of donations to their campaigns. The second image is the old-fashioned, and certainly more Irish, idea of...
The past 24 hours has been remarkable, as news broke about a number of social media giants facing a dip in revenue following a wave of major advertising firms choosing to halt their massive social media spends. The big brands, which include Unilever, Starbucks and Coca-Cola, have decided to halt advertising across Facebook specifically and...
New Advertsing Campaign The past number of weeks have been telling in terms of the impact Covid-19 has had on each and every one of our lives. From the sadness of people losing loved ones, being deprived of the ability to grieve through to the impact of a new normal. However, we like to look...
Remembering Jean Kennedy Smith ‘’No-one surprises a Kennedy!’’ Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith said to me in a very stern voice, a voice I never heard before. I thought I did a good job manoeuvring her extensive line of questioning in relation to a tribute video that I had just completed a day before the screening...
