Paddy O'Dea

Senior Partner @FINNPartnersIE. Contributor to @businessposthq & @independent_ie.

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A piece I wrote for the @businessposthq on why Munster Rugby’s greatest opponent remains it’s comms own goals.

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Munster’s handling of Randle fallout a PR disaster class https://t.co/Os6v6NaxU0

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'We have designed a paradox, and we feign surprise when few are willing to submit to it.' This is excellent by @jfjohnston in the @businessposthq

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Mandy Johnston: Our fixation on perfection has given us the presidential candidates we deserve

https://t.co/R16iVePZpk

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'I'm left smiling at an event that fosters a rare sense of connection in a city so often accused of being cold.'
https://t.co/h5VGO0Gvci

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'Telling lies is the Israeli state’s modus operandi.'

Ireland set to feel the heat from Washington’s Maga brigade over Occupied Territories Bill https://t.co/F7YpwtQTE4

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Once more for those in the back - Metrolink is not only an airport line

It serves 15 other stations, connecting 127 schools, 3 universities, 5 hospitals, and making over 175k people and 250k jobs accessible by foot to a stop. An estimated 18% of passengers will use airport stop

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'The fences we sit on are being knocked over'

Gerard Howlin: The EU status quo Ireland prospered in for 50 years is over https://t.co/o5AQb5Aooi

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Dandy art + fashion out of context:

Amoako Boafo, Pink Suit, 2019 & Todd Snyder Spring Summer 25.

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*Another* hot take on the Coldplay kisscam affair.

What qualifies as misconduct and when is it appropriate and not appropriate to part ways with your CEO … ⁦@businessposthq⁩

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‘As Interim CEO Pete DeJoy wrote on LinkedIn: “We’re here because the mission is bigger than any one moment.”

In this instance, Byron’s personal misstep had become bigger than the business itself. The Board rightly grasped the nettle. Heavy lies the crown — and then it’s gone.’

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Don’t panic: PR lessons from Astronomer’s Coldplay kiss-cam fallout https://t.co/CF1H02RMOH

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When the ceo becomes the reputational risk - when is it time to part ways? My piece for the ⁦@businessposthq⁩

https://t.co/qCUiAdxQCu

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‘Three-nil. Game over. Thanks for use of the hall.’ @GavanCasey (and Katie Taylor) in sublime form 👏🏻👏🏻

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Last one from New York.

On the Taylor-Serrano aftermath, the hidden weigh-in drama, the colourful Irish-Puerto Rican dynamic at MSG, and how ‘the greatest to ever do it’ reached into her past to close the loop against a fellow legend.

https://t.co/hPpIwFeMhK

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David McRedmond is one of Irish business's best communicators. Never gives a dull interview.

David McRedmond: ‘An Post has been brilliant. I’ve never been remunerated less and enjoyed a job more’ https://t.co/hbaRfZ2QZd

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Such an impressive individual and life story. 👏👏

Allen Bobinac: ‘For four weeks, I was sleeping in Stephen’s Green, surviving on €1 a day’ https://t.co/RlF1jrDDGG

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Gaza’s starving children, their eyes growing bigger as the blockade grinds on, are not fake news https://t.co/umUDiNgPqw

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'The Times had 11.66 million total subscribers at the end of the first quarter' ...

New York Times Adds 250,000 Digital Subscribers https://t.co/k5P43Pl55G

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'That also means creating space for risk – intelligent, informed, and necessary – rather than grinding everything to a halt out of fear of failure.' @jfjohnston 👏👏👏👏
Dangerous disconnect emerging between business and politics https://t.co/4sPYfsjz7j via @businessposthq

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'Irish people crumpled around me like a protective shell of a car when they heard the news'.

@parkinsbrea has a lovely writing style.

Brianna Parkins: There are a lot of things Australians do well. Death is not one of them https://t.co/9nQUx0xjSH

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My thoughts in @businessposthq Analysis: How Irish business leaders can ‘grasp the nettle’ as diversity programmes are scaled back https://t.co/Ltcs2SIzae via @businessposthq

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'the greatest and most dangerous lie – is “truth minus one”. “Not truth,” Francis observes, “but its contrived appearance, its comic or dramatic distortion”. Joe Humphreys: The 80/20 rule of dating is nonsense. So why do so many people believe it? https://t.co/Usga8JpvHI

[Off The Ball @offtheball]

🗣️"It's those little vignettes that help us connect with the athletes we see on the field."

🗣️"To Tadhg Furlong's credit, he's always been in that category."

The Sunday Paper Review reacts to Tadhg Furlong's touching tribute to his father.