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Your Country, Your Call: Adventures Through The Looking-Glass

"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. " "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things. " "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master— that's all.

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Your Country, Your Call; The Dept of Enterprise is not at home to visitors

A few weeks ago, prompted by this article in the Irish Times on the announcement of the final 5 candidates for the €200,000 Your Country, Your Call cash bonanza, I emailed the Press Office the following question; Thank you for the confirmation that there has been no change in the situation regarding the payment of monies since the press reports of last week.

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Your Country, Your Call: Request for SIPO investigation

This request for investigation, with accompanying documentation, will arrive with the Standards in Public Office Commission tomorrow or the next day. RequestAn Smaoineamh Mór Limited is a company having its registered office at Arthur Cox Building, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin 2 (Company Record Number 478844). It was registered on the 16th December 2009 with the CRO.

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Your Country, Your Call: The SIPO Question

Last month I wrote an article for the Irish Times asking some questions regarding the Your Country Your Call competition. As a result, members of the competition 'Steering Group', including Professor Von Prondzynski, the President of DCU, have elaborated on their previous positions both on those pages and in radio interviews. Some questions have been answered.

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Your Country Your Call: Is it Bigger than a Breadbox?

In the unlikely event that I wanted to run a national competition offering a cash prize of mysterious origin in exchange for total ownership of an idea of such staggering- almost mystical- potency that it could restore a nation of modern-day serfs to spectacular success, I think I'd have to go into it without a preconception of what that idea would look like.

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Your Country, Your Call: A Tuppenceworth Perfect Storm

Your Country, Your Call launched a week ago. Its self description "a competition to ignite your imagination and reward your thinking" might have you scratching your head. Didn't we already go though exactly this already? The Ideas Campaign was an almost identical effort run by PR firm AMAS's Managing Director Aileen O'Toole in March of 2009.

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