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Terry Prone

Terry Prone is an author, columnist and one of Ireland's most well known commentators on communications, politics and public life.

Can a typewriter really enhance the protection of information?

WITH Julian Assange avoiding arrest in an embassy and Edward Snowden avoiding arrest in an airport, both in trouble for effecting voluminous leaks of secret data, the Russian security guys have decided it’s time to go back to the future.

Mon, 15 Jul, 2013

Nothing they could do for the co-worker who cuts herself

NOT to be outdone by the new mother-in-law, one of them is teaching herself how to cook.

Mon, 08 Jul, 2013

Lifelong gay rights campaigner mustn’t be denied the basic right of privacy

IT was all action on Saturday afternoon in Dublin.

Mon, 01 Jul, 2013

What’s more lethal then fried ice cream? Try foot in mouth disease

FRIED ice cream.

Mon, 24 Jun, 2013

The Wizard of Loss and the lure of the limelight over the rainbow

DECLAN Ganley feels that he’s publicly misrepresented.

Mon, 17 Jun, 2013

The pot plant, the commissioner, and a burning desire to be a senator

AROUND the time my secretary threw my marijuana plant out the window was the period when I was expert on the Seanad.

Mon, 10 Jun, 2013

When it comes to communication, remember that design is everything

MY next-door neighbour has Pomeranians.

Mon, 03 Jun, 2013

Paranoia over Woolwich murder may store up trouble for the future

YESTERDAY, the British Government let it be known that they were thinking again about a funding cut they made a while back.

Mon, 27 May, 2013

Moving moments of toilet hubris are no cure for a traumatised bottom

WE should be totally stressed out at work because we’ve just moved.

Mon, 20 May, 2013

Spreading the word: The modest cardinal and his powerful blog

I WOULDN’T want to put the Pope and Pierce Brosnan in the same boat, but whenever I hear the radio ad for that Sky bundle thing, it rings a papal bell for me.

Mon, 13 May, 2013