Monthly Archives: April 2012

You may remember the retro stamp postage necklace?

Carol, the lady behind the patriotic design (made with REAL vintage Irish stamps), has offered three of the hipster necklaces to giveaway.

To enter just complete this sentence:

My friend deserves the retro Irish stamp necklace because…

Lines close at 5pm extended until Tuesday (April 3), 7am (Irish Time)

Above: John Daly, Goldman Sachs Group, New York; Martin Kelly, vice-president of worldwide information technology; Una Fox, vice-president of technology, Walt Disney Company and Conor Allen, global head of technology, NYSE Euronext.

THE HEAD of the Irish Technology Leadership Group in California has urged the Government to move quickly to secure the services of top business executives who have offered to serve on state boards without payment.

But Mr [John] Hartnett [founder of the ITLG] said Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, who was keen on the project when it was first suggested last year, had not yet been in contact to finalise details of the scheme.

“I would urge the Government to move quickly on this,” Mr Hartnett said.

High powered advice for free at our time of greatest need?

Surely, a way will be found to make an utter bags of this.

Move Urged On Securing Executives’ Free Services (Irish Times)

MyHome.ie said the fall was the fastest quarterly decline in three years and resulted in the annual drop of 15.8% – to 219,000 euro nationally and €248,000 in Dublin.

However Daft.ie maintained the fall in the first quarter of 2012 was the smallest since the market began to collapse in 2007.