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Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

This is a really interesting talk on Education by Ken Robinson at a TED conference.   TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading.  It was started in 1984  as a conference bringing different sectors together.  Today thanks to technology they record and broadcast talks from people such as Bill Clinton, Alain de [...]

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Graduation

I was never big into the idea of college. I liked it and I always knew I’d give it a go but deep down from the age of 5 my greatest desire was to own and run my own business.   So after a year at UCD that’s exactly what I did, took a “year [...]

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Educate Together@the Flora Mini Marathon

A few weeks ago Deirdre O’Donoghue emailed me about herself and several of the staff at Educate Together running in the Flora Mini marathon to raise money for E.T. I am a huge supporter of Educate Together having gone through their education system and come out the other side a better person for it.  Educate [...]

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Beating the recession blues…

In these so called recessionary times we hear a lot of talk of doom and gloom. Over the past few months I have received numerous emails from people and companies claiming to have the one thing that will get my business through the recession.  If these people did in fact have the golden cure for [...]

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