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Irish Times – Platform
The next crop of entrepreneurs
THE ECONOMY needs to change its diet, and quick. For years, it’s been a fast-food junkie – bulking up on property and multinationals. Of course, there’s no long-term nutritional value in any of that rubbish and now, after a forced detox, the economy’s a mess. So it’s time to change the menu and rely on [...]
Ever decreasing circles
WHO WANTS to drive the bus? Over the past two weeks, we learned that Bill Cullen, Renault boss and author of It’s a Long Way From Penny Apples , is hosting an Irish version of The Apprentice. We also heard that Circle Line, the private bus operator which initiated a valuable service to west Dublin [...]
Beware the legalese virus
EUROPEAN SCIENTISTS are concerned about the rapid spread of an aggressive virus known as legalese LT08. A close relative of jargonitis, academicspeakis and gobbledegook, the malady has taken hold of European laws and infected civil servants throughout the EU. The virus, mostly found in EU legislation and government publications, attacks the human mind and hijacks [...]
Even a worm will turn
IT’S THE turn of the worm. Earthworms, it seems, are demanding their rights after an eternity as an unpaid, voiceless, faceless majority. Spurred on by a Department of the Environment study this week, the worms have demanded pay negotiations with gardeners and farmers. The study, Benefits and Costs of Biodiversity in Ireland, finds that earthworms’ [...]
Waterford taking the taxpayer’s biscuit
EVERYONE HAS their favourite – Jaffa cakes, ginger biscuits, chocolate chip cookies – and their own unique way of eating them. Some of us like to nibble around the edges or pick the chocolate off the top while others twist them apartso they can savour one portion at a time. But does it make any [...]
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