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Cashel Palace Hotel and the €15 Tea and Scone!
What are we seriously like when a printed receipt from a disgruntled customer makes the news in our national newspapers?!! The outraged Ciara who was charged €45 and 10% gratuity for her and her two...
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Are the government entering dangerous territory with home working proposals?
My first reaction when I read the headline was have they totally and utterly lost their marbles? “Employers to have at least 13 grounds to refuse remote working requests” Before I say any more can I...
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It’s all over…but it will be stressful!
So that’s it? This weekend we read the headlines in the newspapers after the speech on Friday night by An Taoiseach, Micheál Martin more or less declaring that “the Covid pandemic is over” and that...
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Time to lose the “kind regards” and say something meaningful
I was listening to a fascinating conversation on a podcast with the founder of Toms Shoes, Blake Mycoskie who was sharing his career story including the incredible story of where the idea of Toms...
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Time to talk to the unvaccinated?
We are reading about the need for taking more care, not going back to the workplace, socialising less and the need for possible regular antigen tests to keep us safe. Fancy a stick up your nose three...
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Blurb….
Don’t you just love those emails you get from organisations who you have never heard of who come promising you overnight success if you just buy into their “magic system” . They seem to think that...
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Backing Brave and “Your Relationship Manager”
I just received a significant piece of correspondence from the bank I have been with for 40 years. It was important, great, huge even, but it captures in a nutshell how far we have come from the bank...
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The slow and long road back to the office ..
“Oh…you want me to deliver the session in person, in Dublin?“ This was a simple enquiry to facilitate a social media strategy session to a group from an organisation and then provide some specific...
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I’m ready to buy. Are you ready to sell?
So the time was right. We had engaged with this particular service provider before, but the time wasn’t quite right then for us to get value for the service provided so we didn’t engage. However, they...
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The special gift of music – the playlist with Declan Murphy of THE 4 OF US
Music has played a special role in my life, ever since a Spanish student that was staying with us one summer in 1977 and he had brought his tape recorder and a selection of his favourite albums. I...
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St. Patrick’s Day and looking in the Covid rear view mirror
So, the ISAG (Independent Scientific Advocacy Group) last December were advocating for an approach (mostly known as Zero Covid), that they said would have us out of lockdown and enjoying some return...
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Saying “let’s do it” when most of us just wouldn’t dare!
I’m sure we have all been away on holidays in a special place and you pass an auctioneers window and gaze at the houses for sale and think “what if“? While it’s a nice dream, quickly after 60 seconds...
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Thank you friend..
Maybe it was something that I specifically said in my email about a bad nights sleep or maybe there was just a hint in the some of my other content, that I was under a little bit of a cloud yesterday?...
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The man at the window
And there he is.. He must have been there all along, doing exactly the same thing as me, day in day out for months, but it took the leaves to fall from the trees and the evenings to get shorter for me...
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Landing on the Zoom!
Happy New Year to you!! As we start into a second full working week of the new year amidst a severe lockdown and an even more severe pandemic with outrageous Covid case numbers it looks like we need...
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Dangerous People!
Don’t you just hate those “dangerous people” who come to meetings because – they ask the question you hope no one asks – they don’t just go with the flow and nod their head politely at what is being...
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Sorry Michael..
Friday evening, after doing our grocery shopping we decided we would get a quick drink in our local before settling down for the night at home. This beautiful little pub, the Inniscarra Bar is just...
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Zero Covid and the “Future Green List”
This is not working, this is not living and we shouldn’t accept any plan that doesn’t have us working towards a return to our normal lives – shopping without masks, having people to dinner from more...
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Just a Drop of a West Cork Story ..
We were in the car all five of us on a Saturday morning, the last one of August, the last one of summer (I know it’s autumn, but I always consider August to be part of summer) taking a trip around...
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Long hair and figuring out what “normal” should look like
I had one of those rare, precious things in these very strange COVID19 times – an appointment at the hairdressers! We are good friends with one of the owners so Dee made an appointment for me and...
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