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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Thoughts on Cloyne report and Clerical Child Abuse
I have been out of the country the last few weeks, in italy, so have only been really following the situation from afar on the appalling responses to the Cloyne revelations. However, the speech by Enda Kenny to the Dail … Continue reading
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What Italian holidays tell me about ireland
I have just returned from a couple of weeks in Italy, where we usually holiday. I like food, and I like cooking, and I have to say that in 10 years travelling in Italy I have never had a bad … Continue reading
A league of their own
Universities are complicated beasts, with multiple products and multiple stakeholders. It is folly to think that any one metric can ever completely or even adequately capture what goes on. That said, there is a large and booming business in metrics. … Continue reading
competition and the banking boom – Terms and conditions apply
One of the by now accepted memes of the irish boom and bust is that left to their own devices the banks (well, AIB and BOI anyhow) would have toddled along as the staid institutions we all knew and loved, … Continue reading
