Tag: current-events
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The behavioural aspects of the collapse of the Croke Park Extension
This is a expanded version of a column published in the Irish Examiner 20 April 2013. In the christian bible the First Book of Kings has a wonderful vignette of how not to win friends and influence people. King Rehoboham is discussing policy with his advisors, having recently taken the throne from Solomon. The advisors…
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The Austerity Dictionary
This started out as a little crowdsourced joke on Twitter, with the hashtag #austeridictionary (note the spelling). A link to the ongoing discussion/madness is https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=%23austeridictionary&src=hash. I used SearchHash to collate the hashtagged tweets, into a CSV folder, which I then cleaned up in Excel. Its a bit of fun, but also like all good satire has…
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Salary caps and chordates
My intereview on Morning Ireland on Friday (here as a podcast) has generated more emails and random stoppings in the street (every single on positive) than any other comment or public utterance I have made over the last 4 years. People are (barely) able to comprehend €500,000, the salary range now going rate for running…