“You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?” ― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah’ The first thing that strikes you about Paul Kenny is speed. Everything about him moves at a pace. As we communicate via Skype, between Galway and Dubai, he’s all over …
Conversations with Achievers, Owen O’Malley. Founder of TICN. By Padraic O Maille.
‘By the age of sixty five 95% of people worldwide are either dead or dead broke’. Owen O’Malley Owen O’Malley was not the first to identify with such an alarming statistic. Way back in 1956, Earl Nightingale revealed in ‘The Strangest Secret’ that ‘if you take 100 individuals who start even at the age of …
An Accountant Recalculates.
In his Conversations with Achievers series Padraic O Maille talks with Sister Colette, Mother Abbess of the Poor Clare Nun’s in Galway. Sr. Colette. From time to time it’s useful to reflect on the meaning of life. The environment you choose to do so in greatly influences the outcome. Some choose therapy. Others, Lough Derg. …
Conversations with Achievers – Padraic O Ceidigh
Inadvertently, while walking in his wife’s family place one Christmas day, he stumbled upon a half-finished runway. Contrary to everyone’s advice, including the man who owned the business, Padraig bought Aer Arann.
Conversations with Achievers – Jimmy Sheehan
Zig Zigler once said that in business and life “it’s better to be a meaningful specific rather than a wandering generality”. In marketing we are obsessive about getting people to describe themselves in one word and I was now trying this out for size with Jimmy Sheehan, Founder and CEO of the Galway Clinic. Jimmy, …
Conversations with Achievers – Pat McDonagh
In this new series, Padraic O Maille sits down and has a chat with some of the doers and achievers of the city and
county. This week, he meets Supermac’s supremo Pat McDonagh.
Conversations with Achievers – Des Kenny. Bookseller
Few scenes can compare with the Ballynahinch river, it thick with salmon, and you with a rod in your hand. One that can however is the bar in the Castle, directly above the river, and you with a pint of freshly poured porter in front of you. Hopelessly defeated by the fishing I repaired with …
Conversations with Achievers – Ronnie O Gorman
Conversations with Achievers – Ronnie O’Gorman from PádraicÓMáille on Vimeo. Forty years ago this week, as I trundled home fromschool in the Jes, I happened upon my uncle Stiofain and Chickeen Gillen in animated conversation in the middle of Dominick Street. They were poring over the first edition of the new Galway Advertiser and as …