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Terry Prone

Give algorithms credit where credit is due — and don’t bank on a loan

WHENEVER I’m speaking at a conference, I try to get to the venue at least an hour ahead of the time at which I’m slated to speak.

Mon, 21 Nov, 2011

A man in the Áras is not a loss for women, but a sign of equality at work

No woman felt diminished when one of the women candidates didn’t make it on election day.

Mon, 14 Nov, 2011

Time to do the public a service and recruit a recruitment ban quango

I WANT to propose a new quango.

Mon, 07 Nov, 2011

Media fulfils its appointed role in an election of more winners than losers

WATCHING the elections and referenda from Sweden, where I’ve been working for the last week, I’ve been struck by the emerging myths around the presidential election, the first of which was that “there were no winners”.

Mon, 31 Oct, 2011

Presidential debates of all shapes and sizes have outstayed their welcome

TONIGHT’S Frontline is the last Presidential Debate.

Mon, 24 Oct, 2011

President wanted: those without sin and ladies not for burning only

IMAGINE it’s 14 years into the future. Imagine that you run a major charity. Or you’re a successful MEP. Or you’re a TV star. Or a senator. You’ve done well, you’re popular, you’re happy.

Mon, 17 Oct, 2011

Getting back to ‘where we were’ will not make us a happier nation

THE name of the company is irrelevant. It’s a big one with systems.

Mon, 10 Oct, 2011

Magnificent Seven and the Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight under fire

IS Eamon Dunphy grateful to Gay Mitchell? He should be. He should be SO grateful. There Dunphy was yesterday, in the Newstalk studios, having been turned down by a bunch of presidential hopefuls he had invited onto the programme.

Mon, 03 Oct, 2011

In reality, I’m not a secret millionaire, potential president or GAA celebrity

BEING topical without talking about the presidency or the economy requires me to let you know that I was invited to be a Secret Millionaire.

Mon, 26 Sep, 2011

Soldiers of mutiny rattle blunt sabres as the good ship FF drifts out to sea

A WONDERFUL moment in a wonderful play. It’s the point in A Man for All Seasons where Thomas More faces the evidence trumped up against him to get him beheaded and rid Henry VIII of a turbulent priest who will not countenance the monarch divorcing his wife.

Mon, 19 Sep, 2011