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Fancy a chat about the climate?

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Chris ‘Green’ Green writes:

I think your readers might be interested in this event we’re hosting tonight. Climate Conversations, a series of lectures about communicating climate change and spelling out what a changing climate means for Ireland, is back for its third year running.
David Begg of ICTU, Claire O’Connor former international director for Vice President Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, Oisin Coghlan from Friends of the Earth and Eamon Ryan from the Green Party will all be speaking and taking questions from the audience.
Tonight’s event takes place in Liberty Hall, Eden Quay, Dublin  at 7pm, and FREE tickets are still available here. For those outside of Dublin you can watch on a livestream here…

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Climate Conversations (Facebook)

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Mariusz writes:

Let me share my story about how I changed mobile provider from #Meteor to #O2 / Three Ireland…

Day 1 Sunday – I noticed that O2 had a good Bill Pay Plan with #Iphone6 plus128GB and my old iPhone was getting older and older and my contract with Meteor was due to finish so I decided to move to O2. Spent over €400 on my dream phone and after I filled everything online I read that my new phone would be with me within four working days.

Day 5 Thursday – I hadn’t received anything so decided to call Customer Care where I found out after 20 minutes on the phone that they had sent me email with a request for ID scan and credit card statement. Funny thing was I had never received that email.

Day 6 Friday – I called them again to make sure that all of the documents were fine just to be told all was good and I should get everything in four days.

Day 10 Tuesday – I called them again. A customer service representative told me that she would check it and email me later that day.

Day 11 Wednesday – Received email saying that my order was shipped from the warehouse yesterday and I should receive my delivery within the next day or two, I said sweet. I asked for my phone to be delivered to my work. Phone was delivered later on that day after I finished work but that’s no biggie.

Day 12 Thursday – Happy Day, I finally received my phone, woohoo, but hold on a second. A new sim card was forgotten to be included in the package. I emailed Customer Care  to be told that they made a mistake. I say OK, I’m a patient person…

Day 16 Monday – I emailed  Customer Care, I was little bit frustrated at this stage.But two or three hours later I finally received my package. woohoo, I had waited so long for this day, sweet! However…
1 they gave me new number which made no sense because I was moving my old number.
2 the sim card they put in was Micro sim card which DOES NOT fit into an iPhone

At this stage I was like FUPP IT! Later on that day I called Customer Care and told them that I want my money back and I want nothing to do with company which CAN NOT provide simple service and product! Thank you #ThreeIreland you guys have just lost a customer!

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Previously: Threebooting

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LME57ieOfTk

The last 48 hours.

Taoiseach Enda Kenny’s trip to Atlanta and Washington DC to mark St Patrick’s Day and (above) left hangin’ in the White House.

Busy, in fairness.

From top: Atlanta Parade;At an American Ireland Gala Fund dinner; with Vice President Joe Biden and Fionnulla Kenny; with Republican leader John Boehner (right); with President Obama under a portrait of George Washington; leaving the White House.

(Photocall Ireland/DFA, video via Buzzfeed)

Meanwhile…

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Yesterday.

Health Minister Leo Varadkar with Irish Ambassador Sonja Hyland and unidentified Mexico City official at the temporary renaming of Zapata Metro Station in Mexico City to San Patricio for St Patrick’s Day.

(DoH)

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burgessGorse Hill, Killiney (top) earlier this month and Brendan Burgess (above)

Bring it on.

Sez controversial Financial advisor Brendan Burgess:

Here we blame the bank and not the borrower. Banks have to comply with a complicated and bureaucratic Mortgage Arrears Resolution Process – proposed incidentally by an expert group of which I was a member. We place all the responsibility for solving mortgage arrears on the lender. We absolve the borrower of all responsibility saying that they are in arrears “due to no fault of their own”. We throw our hands up in horror at the very mention of the possibility of repossession.

The result? While most people have continued to pay their mortgage, a minority have exploited the situation. When these people realised that there was no effective sanction for not paying their mortgage, they tried to get away without paying. Some 30,000 people have now built up over two years of arrears. Some of these have done their best to pay what they can, but many of them have taken advantage of the lack of any effective sanction and made little effort to pay.

Well-meaning debt campaigners have done these borrowers no favours whatsoever as they have just encouraged the borrowers to avoid reality and to delay facing up to their problems. They have given these borrowers false hopes of debt write-downs. If these borrowers had addressed the problems early on, many could have got back on track. But many have now left it too late and will lose their homes.

Hardcore.

Want to solve arrears crisis? Make repossession faster and cheaper (Brendan Burgess, Independent.ie)

(Photocall Ireland)

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