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May 03/12

Bake Off for The Alzheimers Society

Posted by Margaret

Today is the annual tea day of our Client The Alzheimers Society. To support this great cause, the Boys and Girls have baked a fantastic spread that is available in 14 Pembroke Road, so anyone passing with €€€€, please come in and indulge.

Here are shots of a selection of

Apr 17/12

New from other ‘Boys and Girls’

Posted by Margaret

Alabama Shakes launched their debut album ‘Boys and Girls’ last week.

So here is taste of what Boys and Girls sounds like on the other side of the Atlantic

Or if you want to more sombre sound here is the eponymous track ‘Boys and Girls’

Mar 05/12

The double edge sword of emigration

Posted by Margaret

This weekend saw over 20,000 people queue up for the Living Aboard exhibition in the RDS (I would say that the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis organisers were sick at the irony of this harbinger of mass emigration happening on the same weekend and the same location)

The organisers had to stop

Feb 18/12

The folks living with no safety net

Posted by Margaret

Yesterday the Central Bank published its report on the last quarter of 2011 which showed that 1 in 7 mortgages are now in arrears. In real numbers that means that over 70,000 mortgages are in arrears of 90 days or over, and frighteningly that number is up 42% since March 2010.

But

Jan 31/12

This feels a bit lazy

Posted by Margaret

It’s 2002, the World Cup looms. Imagine the scene, Nike and their agency trying to make the most of the World Cup opportunity. The creative presentation probably boiled down to the following: soccer is the star of show; we are going to feature superstar footballers demonstrating their (Nike assisted) skills;

Jan 15/12

It’s Blue Monday

Posted by Margaret

The third Monday of January every year has the dubious honour of being the gloomiest day of the year. Christmas is over, for many of us it has been weeks since we received our early December salary, the cost of Christmas is biting, lots of us pay annual renewals in

Dec 01/11

The Boys and Girls Christmas Season

Posted by Margaret

It began today, 1st December, with Christmas jumpers

With the incessant play of Christmas tunes in the planning department

If you are passing, there are currently mince pies being served in the basement, at the Boys and Girls Christmas lunchtime movie. Here is a clip of what’s playing….(scarily some of the

Last night saw the official celebration of the Boys and Girls 2nd birthday.

Champagne and cupcakes in the office, followed by our own pub quiz in town. Different techniques to win were employed by all. Bairbre’s team had scientifically looked up typical pub quiz questions (which served them well, for

Firstly, apologies to Patrick to beating him to the first Christmas blog! He is already sneakily listening to Christmas tunes, and reviewing Christmas jumper options – that is how obsessed the boy is!

Back to the real news, despite three quarters of us believing that the country is still in recession,

Oct 28/11

Posted by Margaret

I feel a bit like the kid in The Emperor’s New Clothes, am I the only one who is not enamored by Muller’s Wunderful Stuff ad? And isn’t it everywhere??

What do they want me to think? Muller will cheer me up? In a less than wonderful world, Muller wants us