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David Cochrane
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Director of Audience at the Business Post. Past: Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Breaking News.
Running/Greyhound stan account.
JournalistDublin, IrelandJoined May 2007
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🗞️ Cancer Society 'astonished' at delay to law banning insurer penalties
🗞️ State's legal strategy 'active and ongoing'
🗞️ Farmers revive €360m deal to acquire Kerry Group's dairy arm
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Kerry Group has been hit with the largest-ever criminal penalty in a US food safety case after being fined $19.2 million by the US Dept of Justice over its handling of a salmonella outbreak in 2018. Full story on
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Thousands of staff at Intel’s Irish operation to be hit with pay reductions for senior staff and salary and bonus freezes for mid-level employees
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One of the greyhounds is very partial to retrieving one of my slippers. But only ever one. I won’t even try encourage her to get the other one… as she’ll refuse. I guess she wants me to stop trying to make fetch happen.
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I've a #journorequest - anyone out there (in Ireland) that's taken action against a social media platform to have defamatory material about them taken down? I'd love to talk about how easy or hard it was, and what it felt like to go through the process. RTs welcome!
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There’s not a chance I’d have gone out in that weather to do a lunchtime 10k if I knew I was gonna get ZERO social media kudos/karma.
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The Secret Restaurateur: ‘What does it say about Irish restaurants that so many staff are leaving?’
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Setting up a petition to rename the Twitter “For you” tab to “Tweets by people you would literally cross the road to avoid”.
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Only back at the aul running this week and the gang are already trying to get me to sign up for a half marathon in 8 weeks. I got ChatGPT to give me a NOT AT ALL RIDICULOUS regret letter to the race organisers and it's genuinely more believable than any excuse I could make up...
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Stripe is reportedly in talks over a potential $2.5bn investment that would value company at $55bn to $60bn, sharply lower than two years ago
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Only back at the aul running this week and the gang are already trying to get me to sign up for a half marathon in 8 weeks. I got ChatGPT to give me a NOT AT ALL RIDICULOUS regret letter to the race organisers and it's genuinely more believable than any excuse I could make up...
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The New York Times reports that the University of Texas at Austin is to offer a "large-scale, low-cost online Master of Science degree program in artificial intelligence", with an intake of about 2,000 students a year.
That "low-cost": $10,000.
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Fine Gael has taken a hit from a series of ministerial controversies in the latest Business Post/Red C poll, while Sinn Féin has enjoyed a new-year bounce.
Read 's analysis of the poll, and what it means, here.
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Business Post / Red C Poll: Fine Gael has taken a hit from a series of ministerial controversies in the latest Business Post/Red C poll. Full details 👇
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Bet they won’t do a Coca Cola one, cowards.
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“Unintended” offense, also out
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Replying to @APStylebook
The use of “the French” in this tweet by @AP was inappropriate and has caused unintended offense. An updated tweet is upcoming.
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Officials find no need for orbital Luas line around Dublin
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Who said there was no chance of a merger between the Labour party and the Social Democrats?
Soc-Dems statement (1pm) Minister can’t see the wood for the trees on Coillte deal
Labour statement (3pm)GOVERNMENT CAN’T SEE WOOD FOR THE TREES IN COILLTE-GRESHAM HOUSE DEAL
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Quite the Sophie’s choice…
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It’s all SERIOUSLY kicking off in the comment section of Trinity College’s LinkedIn page, and it’s all Paul Mescal’s fault.
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Peterborgough Greyhound Stadium is facing demolition, being replaced by an employment hub. Great to see remnants of a sick and cruel sport being flattened making way for something that'll contribute towards the greater good.
Greyhounds are pets, not bets.
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Daniel McConnell appointed editor of the Business Post businesspost.ie/news/daniel-mc
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I’ll go for the low-hanging crap joke EVERY SINGLE TIME
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52.195 kilometres!?
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10km run to be added to Cork City Marathon echolive.ie/corknews/arid-
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Pat Kenny on Newstalk is currently trying to get his head around digital bank balances, wondering if there's physical cash held by the bank to match your balance... and his guess DOESN'T KNOW! 😲
Very First Bank of Springfield, if you ask me...
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Revolut to start rollout of Irish IBANs in coming months
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Property developers have been successful in amending or overturning fire safety conditions imposed by local authorities in nearly 90 per cent of appeals to An Bord Pleanála, according to an analysis by the Business Post.
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The Land Development Agency has built no homes on state lands yet, but has agreed contracts with outside firms for everything from architectural to legal services
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Our front page today. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at businesspost.ie for these stories plus
🗞️ The telco, the Taliban and the Irish whistleblower
🗞️ Revealed: Developers’ success in 90% of fire safety cases
🗞️ The comeback coach: Eddie Jones profiled
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Tomorrow's front page. Pick up a copy in stores or subscribe at businesspost.ie
🗞️ Commercial property market could lose €10bn in value
🗞️ Irish Google workers to hear of job cuts in weeks
🗞️ Former HSE digital chief on the health crisis
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Free Now has cancelled its sponsorship of The Tommy Tiernan Show on RTÉ following a joke the presenter made about taxi drivers and Dublin Zoo
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Google jobs in Ireland could be at risk as tech giant announces 12,000 redundancies globally
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Blocked for simply pointing out a letter to the editor was not in fact a published "article".
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Replying to @davidjtansey
That’s a letter to the editor, not an “article” published by The Irish Times.
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96 pages of an Oireachtas Committee report on banking in Ireland.
Revolut has 1.9m customers in Ireland, and are under significant regulatory pressure in the UK and Lithuania (coverage: businesspost.ie/revolut/). Mentions of Revolut: 0. Zero interest.
Absolutely extraordinary.
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The Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform and Taoiseach has published its Report on Banking 2022. Committee Cathaoirleach Deputy @JMcGuinnessTD here outlines the main recommendations of the report. Read report in full at bit.ly/3wfyq7z #SeeForYourself
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