Archive for March, 2009

Biting the bullet

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Uncharacteristic quiet on the blogging front while assessing the state of the Irish dental industry (and drawing parallels to banks and economic woes) My English dentist retired last year,  so what I hear you say - so I had more years with this guy than with any other personal or ...

Score 5 Lidl and an own goal to Dunne and Crescenzi’s l’Officina

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

After an exhausting 4 hour shop with my niece Katharine in the Kildare Outlet Centre I collapsed exhausted (and I have shopped for Ireland in my time) into L'Officina - with just about enough energy to croak 'Green Tea please'. My appetite for green tea being the stuff of legends, ...

National Small Business Awards 2009

Friday, March 6th, 2009

We had our moment of glory and great craic afterwards - in the SFA Small Business Awards this year it was generally agreed that all those shortlisted were winners - a great package of training, networking and publicity that still has the phones hopping. I basked in reflected glory sitting ...