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18.10 30 Apr 2021
We look back on the news stories that made the news this week with our Friday Forum with Robert Troy, Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital & Company Regulation. FF TD for Longford-Westmeath and Terry Prone, Chairman of the Communications Clinic.
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How Do We Re-Learn The Art Of Small Talk?
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Once the country reopens, we ll all be unleashed on each other and realise that we ve lost the ability to engage in small talk.
Lorcan Nyhan, Head of Training at the Communications Clinic, joined Mairead on the show to help prepare us for making conversation with anyone beyond our bubble of close friends and family.
Lorcan s first point was that whether it s finding out a bit more about who you re chatting to or just hearing to them talk about what they re interested in, listening is key.
How Politicians Can Get Social Media Wrong
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Department of Health records show that Minister Stephen Donnelly queried why he was not being mentioned in tweets posted on the department s Twitter feed.
An analysis of the Twitter feed completed for the Minister in mid-January found that no references were made to him, whereas other individuals and State agencies had been mentioned 78 times in the department s tweets.
Kate Shanahan, Head of Journalism and Senior Lecturer at TU Dublin, and Barry McLoughlin, Senior Communications Consultant at The Communications Clinic, joined us to discuss whether the way politicians use social media is useful.
Education Minister Norma Foley’s department hired a high-profile public relations firm before informing Cabinet about errors in the calculated grades system for the Leaving Cert.
The Department of Education sought the services of The Communication Clinic the day after errors in the system emerged.
However, Ms Foley did not inform some of her own Cabinet colleagues of the mistakes in the grading system at a meeting a week later.
In September, Ms Foley apologised after 6,100 students were affected by two errors in the calculated grades system which led to 6,870 grades being impacted. Read More
There was controversy as to when members of Cabinet were informed of the error made in calculated grades, with the issue not being raised at a Cabinet meeting.