Wrote most of this recently in hospital on my iPhone where I had the time as nothing else to do but observe the health system at work and participate in it! I am one of the 25% of the population who has neither a medical card nor private health insurance. I don’t believe in private […]
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Yes you … stop looking over your shoulder… you who watched Claire Byrne Live and began to panic about the Marriage Referendum and started worrying about what was going on, who was doing what and the sky was going to fall in and and and… 1) Chill the feck out. 2) There are 4 months […]
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Later this month in Cardiff a group calling itself the Interaction Council will launch a book of papers by former world leaders offering ‘authoritative insights into topics from the Middle East and denuclearization of Korea to the water crisis and the future of energy.’ The InterAction Council (IAC) is a 30 year old association pooling the expertise […]
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Damian O’Broin is the director of Ask Direct, a fundraising and direct marketing agency. Let’s get the disclosures out of the way first, shall we? I earn my living in the charity sector, and have done for 20 years. I spend my days coming up with better ways to connect emotionally with donors in order […]
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While waiting for the publication of the report of the Review Group into Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant (5,000 people with disabilities are going to lose up to 20% of their income at the end of this month and few seem to care) thoughts also are not far away from very important legislation for […]