14th Apr 2008

Slugger O’Toole talks and Dublin gives

Mick Fealty, aka Slugger O’Toole, dropped by O’Conall Street (Weber Shandwick’s Belfast Office) for a chat and a coffee last week. We thought we would record a short conversation with him about Irish blogging, the future of online newspapers and the emergence of the ‘author’ brand. We also pressed him on whether Slugger will fill the void for quality political blogging south of the border.

It was a spur of the moment thing so sorry about the audio and the slightly disjointed questioning. Mick’s incisive analysis make up for that though.  

Meanwhile Brian Cowen is in the North today to announce IFSC jobs for Belfast. Varney gave us nothing. At least Dublin is trying to bend the rules to get some quality investment North. They won’t be HQ jobs but will be very welcome none the less. All this only strengthens further the case for a harmonised corporation tax rate on the island of Ireland.

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2 Responses to “Slugger O’Toole talks and Dublin gives”

  1. April 18th, 2008 at 9:37 am O’Conall Street » Blog Archive » Politics and new media Says:

    [...] There is a very interesting piece in this week’s Economist on politics and new media which is worth reproducing. Picks up on quite a few themes which we covered last week here with Slugger O’Toole. [...]

  2. June 30th, 2008 at 8:03 am O’Conall Street » Blog Archive » Irish Times joins the free web and NI parties look to Europe Says:

    [...] Irish Times  today goes free to view on the World Wide Web and not a day too soon. I posted previously about the irony that a decade ago the Guardian website and Ireland.com competed for roughly the [...]

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