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Farewell to Antoinette’s Bakery: the plight of small businesses in 2017

by Paula

Antoinette’s is a gluten free bakery on Kevin Street in Dublin. I say “is” but from Friday (30 June) I’ll be saying that Antoinette’s WAS a gluten free bakery on Kevin Street. Sinéad set up Antoinette’s in her parents’ kitchen in 2011 before opening on Kevin Street. This week, she emailed customers to say goodbye

IPU urges older people to ask for advice before taking medication

by Paula

IPU calls for introduction of pharmacist-delivered Medicines Use Reviews for older patients.

A sad lesson about saying the wrong thing on air

by Paula

I was very moved by the tributes paid to Gerry Conlon who passed away over the weekend. Conlon, one of the Guildford Four, spent 15 years in prison after being framed by police for the bombing of two pubs in Guildford in 1974 in which seven people were killed and many more injured. His sentence

Geospatial information contributes over €69m to the Irish economy

by Paula

A report commissioned  by Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) reveals that the geospatial information industry contributed €69.3m to the Irish economy in 2012. When multiplier impacts are included, this is estimated to be over €120m. The industry generated sales or output valued at €117.5m in 2012, and spent a total of €84.4m on wages/ salaries. 1,677 full-time

Defining the public interest

by Paula

Print and broadcast editors and producers have always acted as a sort-of public interest authority, deciding on a daily basis what the public get to read and hear. Only in exceptional circumstances does the State define the public interest. Think, for example, of Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act which prevented Sinn Féin and IRA

Don’t finish that Christmas list just yet…

by Paula
ISPCC

So today marks the beginning of the one month countdown to Christmas 2013! Present shopping has begun with gusto and planning is underway for Christmas parties, festive catch-ups and visits to Santa’s grotto. Of course it’s a sad reality that for lots of people Christmas can be a difficult and lonely time of year. And

ISPCC ask are you wrapped up warm enough this winter?

by Paula

Support the ISPCC with some Elverys Winter Warmers!

MKC’s sunshine playlist

by Paula

Thanks to a decent air conditioning system, we at MKC towers have been able to put in a good week’s work without melting at our desks. We’ve got as far as Friday afternoon, but before we slap on a little more Factor 50 and head off into the sun for the weekend, we’ve put together

Talking ill of the dead

by Paula
Margaret Thatcher via Telegraph.co.uk

We have a great mourning tradition in Ireland, paying respect to the dead in a manner that is comfortably half sorrowful, half craic-infused celebration. We also have a great tradition in Ireland of talking out of the two sides of our mouth, remembering the dead with such sepia-toned admiration that it’s easy to imagine many

No great online mystery to Obama victory

by Paula

Following his reelection last week, political parties and public relations professionals all over the world will look again to Barack Obama’s Democrat machine and try to unlock the secrets of his electoral success. How much fundraising did he do online? What did he do on Twitter? What was his magic email formula? But people looking

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