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Fragments: 9/11 – a decade later
Originally published in Irish Tatler, September 2011 Fragments: reflections on 9/11, a decade on Margaret E. Ward I don’t really talk about this. To anyone. It’s so incredibly personal. Yet that stifling September day I put on my reporter persona to write about an attack on my city for the Sunday Business Post. I guess [...]
Cooley software and pottery entrepreneur Dr George G. Moore
Originally published in UCD Business Connections magazine, September 2011. Link here: http://issuu.com/glosspublications/docs/ucd_connections/1?zoomed=&zoomPercent=&zoomX=&zoomY=¬eText=¬eX=¬eY=&viewMode=magazine Profile: Entrepreneur Dr George G. Moore By Margaret E. Ward When Louth business tycoon George Moore was just a boy in Pearse Park, Dundalk a local priest was inspired by a Cooley legend to launch a hurling competition. In the epic Táin Bó [...]
Inside Tubridy’s writing studio
He’s notoriously private but one of Ireland’s best known broadcasters. He works six days a week and spends the seventh day reading or watching classic films. He’s a self-declared geek and bookworm but is considered one of Ireland’s sexiest men. This Saturday, I’ll be at the Dalkey Book Festival www.dalkeybookfestival.ie interviewing the man behind the [...]
Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson forecasts Ireland”s post-bailout future in our Newstalk interview
Part 1 of a Newstalk interview.
Newstalk interview with author of Ireland and the Global Question, Michael O’Sullivan
Chat with the author of Ireland and the Global Question about Ireland’s managed default. Listen!
Is election day Ireland’s ruling party’s day of reckoning? asks National Public Radio (US, London editor)
My contribution to NPR piece on Ireland’s day of reckoning. Listen!
EU ministers worry Irish debt could spread: interviewed on National Public Radio
I talked to National Public Radio about the Euro’s fear of Irish debt. Lions and tigers and bears..oh my!
Carers: a curtailed and lonely life
One of the loneliest jobs a person can do is not working on an oil rig or spending months at an Antarctic research station; it’s being a carer. Margaret E Ward looks at the emotional and physical toll and, in light of Government inaction, asks what we can do to help
Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?
September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then? Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much. Today he told an audience in downtown [...]
Revisting 9/11 articles: Museum in the dust
Sculptor Michael Richards spent his last evening on top of the world. After watching Monday night football in his studio on the 92nd floor of One World Trade Center with fellow artist Jeff Konigsberg, he knuckled down to the work at hand….his sculptures took form as World War II pilots falling from the sky, tumbling into debris or riding flame-tailed meteors… Some political artists tend to raise the flag and show the warning signs of things to come — so perhaps he was seeing something we couldn’t,
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