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		<title>The Dignity Of Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently spent more time than is healthy flicking through the suggestions proposed to Your Country, Your Call, Ireland’s latest doomed exercise in Magical Thinking. They are hilarious, of course, but there’s a desperate edge to much of my laughter. Because the ideas are not just stupid. They are often illegal, and sometimes dangerous.
One [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/03/03/the-dignity-of-work/</link>
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		<title>Whose Country, Whose Call?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is more a question for the media, who have once again embraced the chance to print a &#8216;good news&#8217; story.
Just in case someone would like to run against the grain (and aren&#8217;t turned down by their editors when they suggest blaspheming against &#8216;optimism&#8217;) here are some questions;
Who is funding the competition? Padraig McKeon (Managing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/02/28/whose-country-whose-call/</link>
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		<title>Your Country, Your Call: A Tuppenceworth Perfect Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your Country, Your Call launched a week ago. Its self description &#8220;a competition to ignite your imagination and reward your thinking&#8221; might have you scratching your head. 
Didn&#8217;t we already go though exactly this already? The Ideas Campaign was an almost identical effort run by PR firm AMAS&#8217;s Managing Director Aileen O&#8217;Toole in March of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/02/27/your-country-your-call-a-tuppenceworth-perfect-storm/</link>
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		<title>Your Country, Your Call: 1st Week Greatest Hits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Proposal: Introduce a policy of deliberate Professional Negligence in Criminal Defence.
2. Proposal: &#8220;The voting process will become a mere formality to sustain our sense of democracy&#8221;. Sold!
3. Proposal: &#8220;It would be a good idea for Europe to help by printing more euro.&#8221; Duh! Why did nobody think of this before now. Financial Crisis, Solved.
4. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/02/27/your-country-your-call-1st-week-greatest-hits/</link>
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		<title>My Liveblogged Year, Part One</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a medium, liveblogging is still only a shadow of what it could be. But even still, the faint sketched in lines are becoming clear. And, as usually happens with an internet technology, I think the real impact of liveblogging will be felt in places the inventors didn't expect. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/02/10/my-liveblogged-year-part-one/</link>
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		<title>To Breda O&#8217;Brien: A Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My response to her column, which exceeds the 3000 character limit set by the Irish Times for comments, follows. I have numbered the paragraphs of Ms. O'Brien's article for ease of reference;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2010/01/17/to-breda-obrien-a-comment/</link>
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		<title>Group Studio Exhibition At Airfield House, Dundrum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<strong>
Airfield Studio Exhibition of Fine Art Original Prints at Airfield, Dundrum</strong>

Exhibition opens at <strong>11am untill 5.30pm</strong>
<strong>Saturday 12th December.</strong>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/12/11/group-studio-exhibition-at-airfield-house-dundrum/</link>
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		<title>Help expel the Papal Nunico- Email Minister Martin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Visit www.IrishElection.com/nuncio to let Minister Martin know that you want the Vatican State's representative in Ireland sent home.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/12/07/help-expel-the-papal-nunico-email-minister-martin/</link>
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		<title>Harry McGee on Twitter: Nothing to see here.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the contrary, 'the platform' creates a new way of communicating, sharing, learning and deciding. Sure, you could just use it as another place to pump out links to your press releases. But good luck trying to plough on with the same dead message as everything changes around you. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/11/22/harry-mcgee-on-twitter-nothing-to-see-here/</link>
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		<title>20 Years Futile Toil In The Fairness Mines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian Cowen fails to understand fairness: "We've been building for the last 20 years a fairer society... We've ensured that we had a tax system where people could keep more of their own wages for their own benefit."]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/11/08/20-years-futile-toil-in-the-fairness-mines/</link>
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		<title>Fascist!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, a Judge in Louisiana refused a marriage license to a mixed race couple. In the ensuing furore, he was careful to make clear that “I’m not a racist, I just don’t believe in mixing the races”. To which one can really only respond, “But that’s what racism is, Jackass!” What Judge Bardwell was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/10/24/fascist/</link>
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		<title>The Nicknames of Ill-Fame</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In contemporary Ireland, when one beer-sponsored festival has barely ended than another begins, to the extent that one is barely aware of their existence, it is easy to remember that these things used to be a big deal. While a Heineken Green Energy or a Murphy&#8217;s Comedy Festival will barely merit a mention in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.tuppenceworth.ie/blog/2009/10/16/the-nicknames-of-ill-fame/</link>
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