Yearly Archives: 2013

Broadsheet Job Club: Communications Officer

Admin at 5:04 pm July 10, 2013

NewsWhip are hiring.

Paul at Newswhip writes:

WE are seeking a Communications Officer to join our team, full time. The right candidate will be a smart, experienced communicator who knows the world of digital and social media and wants to make an impact in what they do. They will help us tell our story and share insights from our data through our blog, social media and the press.

We are a Dublin-based startup that tracks social engagement with the world’s news stories each day. Broadsheet readers might have spotted our widget on the right side of the Broadsheet home page, or seen our trending news site or apps. NewsWhip has a professional side too with Spike, a media monitoring web app that supplies many global media companies with live insights into what stories the world is talking about.

Full job spec and application info here.

Then They Came For The Auditors

Admin at 4:47 pm July 10, 2013

This may be interesting.

“The administrators of Quinn Insurance have been given the go ahead to serve a summons on PricewaterhouseCoopers, the former auditors to the collapsed insurance group.”

“The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns, gave his consent after a short hearing this afternoon where he was updated on the administrators’ preparations for the huge commercial action.”

“The collapse of Quinn Insurance is expected to lead to drawings on the Insurance Compensation Fund of in the region of €1.6 billion and has prompted the Government to establish a 2 per cent levy on all home, motor and commercial insurance policies.”

Quinn Insurance to sue PwC for damages (Colm Keena, Irish Times)

Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

Pop Culture

Admin at 4:44 pm July 10, 2013

Dig them 1950s and ’60s tins, daddy-o.

MORE: Evolution Of Soft Drink Cans (Boldpost)

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Man Vs Trout

Aaron McAllorum at 4:38 pm July 10, 2013

There can only be one winner.

It is almost upon us.

The 60th World Trout Fly Championship on Lough Mask, County Mayo.

Finally.

First fished back in 1953, the then Castlebar Trout Anglers Association and An Tostal [early Gathering] competition was considered one of the first international sporting events in Ireland.

And it has survived (casts net for cliche) in spite of economic hardship.

Denis Kelleher says:

From a peak of 820 competitors we are down to numbers in the region of 450. The disposable income isn’t in people’s pockets anymore but this event which has survived a closure due to foot and mouth and the ‘rod war of ‘89’.
It is estimated the four day event is worth in the region of €1million to Ballinrobe and its surrounds. Pubs, hotels and restaurants will all contribute in some way to the event”.

Rod war?

*snigger*.

Anyone?

World Cup Trout Fly Fishing 2013

Layery

Admin at 4:30 pm July 10, 2013

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And Then There Were Five

Admin at 4:23 pm July 10, 2013

(Marlborough Street Bridge with from top: Bermingham, Duff, Hackett (front row centre), Mills and Stoker.)

James Connolly, WB Yeats and the Abbey Theatre Bridge are among the contenders to have been dropped for the name of Dublin’s new bridge.”

“Dublin City Council is looking for a name for the bridge at Marlborough Street that will service the Luas link-up and other forms of public transport.”

“A final shortlist of five names will be put to a vote at a full council meeting in September.”

“The names for consideration are: Willie Bermingham, founder of the Alone charity; Frank Duff, founder of the Legion of Mary; Rosie Hackett, an Irish Citizen Army activist; camogie player Kay Mills and novelist Bram Stoker.”