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Entrepreneurship and Innovation – Key Drivers for Success Future 2012 and Beyond
StubbsGazette December Retail Magazine Ann Horan, CEO DCU Ryan Academy When I arrived at the DCU Ryan Academy three years ago, I worried that the timing and environment for entrepreneurship and innovation within Ireland could not have been worse. The Ryan Academy is a partnership between Dublin City University and the family of the late..
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2011 – The Year of Living Dangerously
StubbsGazette Retail Issue It was a year that ended with the most inglorious of anniversaries: for how long henceforth will we be reminded annually of the national humiliation of the national bailout? Over nearly 90 years of independence, and the crushing economic crises the state has suffered very often through rank mismanagement – the economic..
read moreAvoiding “moral and social collapse”
StubbsGazette Editor If there are four words that stand out from the admirably clear and concise report of the Inter-Departmental Mortgage Arrears Working Group published this week, they are “all solutions carry consequences”. In short, someone always has to pay – but the process of allocating the debt threatens to cause turmoil in the economy..
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Credit Unions – a race against time
StubbsGazette Editor The global financial system is in a state of chaos. The people have lost confidence in the established order and are taking to the streets. Savers and pensioners are no longer sure of the durability of their money’s currency of denomination. Trust in commercial banks is at an all time low. Time, surely,..
read moreBank rates: government takes the easy option
In the battle for popularity perhaps only bankers rank lower than politicians. This, presumably, was somewhere in the minds of Taoiseach, Enda Kenny and Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore when they summoned leading bankers to the Dáil last week in an attempt to force them to pass on the one-quarter of one per cent interest rate reduction..
read moreMartyred on the euro altar
The Greek debt crisis can be depicted as the ultimate high finance game of “chicken”. On the one side, the creditor nations of Germany, France et al prescribing the austerity terms that must apply before Greece gets a penny more aid to stave off default. On the other, masses of rioting Greek citizens rejecting the..
read moreKeep the cash flowing
When the cash stops circulating, businesses – even profitable ones – die. Greg Connell offers some pointers on how to make sure it doesn’t happen to you. Cash is the lifeblood of any business and the length of time between when you have to pay items like your suppliers, interest on you borrowings, employee salaries..
read moreBrian Lenihan 1959 – 2011
By now just about all the possible superlatives that could be called upon to describe Brian Lenihan’s personal courage have been used and they are well deserved. Here at StubbsGazette we would also like to put on record our deep admiration for a man who came to represent the epitome of selfless dedication and patriotism..
read moreFunds still a major risk
On October 1, 2008 readers of the London Times would have opened their newspapers to see the following headline: “Savings flow to Irish accounts as Republic offers solid guarantee – Britons take advantage of ‘safest banks in Europe’ It seems almost a lifetime ago since the introduction of the then Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan’s..
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Driven to despair?
In spite of what the celebrated song would have us believe, suicide is not painless. On the contrary it is the product of indescribable pain – and generates pain that lives on well after the event itself. That is why any invocation of causes of suicide must be made with exceptional discretion and sensitivity. Too..
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