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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.

Reaching out to people who are strangers within their own bodies

THE email was welcome, because emails from this individual are always welcome.

Mon, 21 Jan, 2013

OPINION: Questions to be asked about celebs’ right not to reply

WE stand between two significant television moments. One happened last week, the other is due later today.

Mon, 14 Jan, 2013

Confession is good for the soul — provided you have one

RIGHT now, somewhere in Ireland, someone’s giving their name and telling everybody in the room how they stole from dying relatives or spent their children’s Holy Communion money or sold the curtains for drink.

Mon, 07 Jan, 2013

TDs, change the things you can for the better and accept things you can’t

DEAR Government Backbencher, 2012 wasn’t exactly the best year of your life, was it?

Mon, 31 Dec, 2012

It was the moment Christmas got off to a flyer, courtesy of granny

THE year my grandmother threw the turkey on the kitchen floor was the best, by a mile.

Mon, 24 Dec, 2012

Myriad problems when taking ‘meaningful action’ on gun attacks

WHEN Barack Obama, hours after the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, talked of the need for “meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this”, half the world nodded in agreement.

Mon, 17 Dec, 2012

The currency of cruelty never undergoes devaluation

SO THIS woman gets into the lift and presses the button for the floor she wants.

Mon, 10 Dec, 2012

Seeing red over the cowardly anonymity of ‘green ink’ tweeters

WE used to call them “green ink letters”.

Mon, 03 Dec, 2012

Judge people on how they act — not on what you assume they think

I MISSED out on a gig recently. Lost a neat little bit of business.

Mon, 26 Nov, 2012

For lessons on risk management, take a leaf out of Enda’s book

WHAT do Taoiseach Enda Kenny and General David Petraeus have in common?

Mon, 19 Nov, 2012