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Presidents' Club: November 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Thursday, 19 November 2009. Someone said Hurricane Quinn hit landfall in County Antrim yesterday. They were referring to the boundless energy of Christine Quinn, Speaker and President of New York City Council who has also been described as the third most important New Yorker! Speaker Quinn has come to Belfast, influenced by Máirtín Ó Muilleoir of Belfast Media Group and myself at The Presidents' Club. Tuesday, 10 November 2009. Report on the ec...

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Presidents' Club: October 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Wednesday, 28 October 2009. Conservatives and Unionists - going forward into new politics. I will be honest, had there been an agreed Unionist Candidate for South Belfast I might have allowed my name to go forward. Then, in a heart searching moment, I recognised just how wrong that would have been [on so many levels! Don't get me wrong, not least in the ever increasing Conservative and Unionist family, we have a long way to travel before we are...

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Presidents' Club: January 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Saturday, 24 January 2009. Get out and face the market! As the business climate gets tougher so we must get smarter. We at The Presidents' Club. Know this is not the time to put your head in the sand, to do nothing, or to delete marketing budgets.albeit significant savings can be made and effort reallocated. It is a time to get out and sell. To move and shake. I recall from University of Ulster. Played a vital part in his campaign. Now business...

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Presidents' Club: April 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Wednesday, 29 April 2009. In the shadow of each other, the people live. I have blogged previously about Dublin based Munster dynamo Raymond Sexton’s innovative. Tangible Flight Plan 2009. Initiative. He had us take-off in Dublin in the first week. Out of the blocks. In the New Year and we have touched down for a Shannon Stop-Over in Limerick. Now we are en route to the Big Apple next week. What is the plan? Time,Treasure and Talent. Con Clarke,...

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Presidents' Club: July 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Thursday, 23 July 2009. Maze Centre of Engineering Excellence. Perhaps too much ink has been deployed on the subject of the Maze (Long Kesh) and the wider Stadium debate.  . I immediately declare my involvement with Ulster Rugby, where I sat on the now defunct Stadium Committee prior to the advancing of the impressive new Stand at Ravenhill. . I coined the phrase ‘ Belfast, once a city of 2 halves, is now a city of 7 quarters’. That said, I tur...

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The PasteBoard: The Online Digital TV Revolution

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My views on all things tech with a bit of a focus on what our organisation does, the newspaper, print and design industry. Local Irish Tech topics are also welcome, and indeed, encouraged! Enter your email address:. The Online Digital TV Revolution. Posted by Gerry McCoy. I promise, I will be making an ultimate point here in a very soon to come blog post. Take this as a little hors d'oeuvre. Hell, I even spelled that correctly first time around. Me good. However, the downside in all this is increased tra...

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The PasteBoard: Rant rant rant rant rant

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My views on all things tech with a bit of a focus on what our organisation does, the newspaper, print and design industry. Local Irish Tech topics are also welcome, and indeed, encouraged! Enter your email address:. Rant rant rant rant rant. Posted by Gerry McCoy. Sometimes I really honest to God absolutely fucking hate Microsoft. It did this on both PC's so it is not a one off isolated incident. This MS SQL piece of goddam crap then comes into play. Is this really too much to ask? Honest to God. For...

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Presidents' Club: March 2009

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Tuesday, 17 March 2009. St Patrick gets me thinking. On a day when millions of Irish – representing 40 spades of green. 8211; celebrate St Patrick around the world (I have received emails, txt, tweats, facebook wall posts, etc. from all corners of the world), let’s reclaim the spirit of St Patrick for all. Patrick was brought to Ireland, went away and was called back to minister a simple gospel of love to all. I am conservative and unionist.

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Presidents' Club: Michael Flannery on a snowy Bryant Park

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By Mark J Finlay and other trustees and member contributors. Wednesday, 3 March 2010. Michael Flannery on a snowy Bryant Park. I'm just back from a hectic but invigorating trip to New York City, Washington and Philadelphia. We spent time with great Friends of Belfast, Northern Ireland and Ireland. We tapped into an incredible ecosystem of technologists, creative industry professionals and financiers. The mood was interesting (more anon), but the opportunity for the north was palpable. Down to business (.