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STORIES ARE THE spark that lights the fire of every great conversation.
We’re all a patchwork of the life adventures that leave us with great stories. And like most things, they’re better shared.
So what’s the best adventure you ever had? To get the inspiration flowing for you guys, we first got staffers in Journal Media Towers to tell us about their war stories. Hold onto your hats…
One DailyEdge.ie scribe told us this yarn about the time she travelled solo through Spain with just a tent for shelter:
I rented a car and took off from the south. It was brilliant. Camped in San Sebastian, somewhere outside Madrid, somewhere outside Grenada. I got literally lost in La Mancha. The only place I stayed in a hotel was Valencia because it was a city so there was nowhere to camp.
She added: “I lost the car in Pamplona. I parked it near what I thought was a very ornate and recognisable fountain. Turns out Pamplona is full of them.”
D’oh.
A journo on the news desk told us this madcap tale of misadventure:
Me and my friends decided we were going on a road trip to Lusty Beg island in Fermanagh for Valentines weekend. Three garage stops in the first hour of driving, GPS stopped working when we crossed the border, none of us brought a toothbrush to the island, and there were a few awkward incidents in the pool and sauna… But they’re all funny stories that people love hearing!
This tale of up and downs was shared by another member of staff:
I went on a road trip with my friend who lived in Salt Lake City in Utah from SLC to Las Vegas. We stopped at a national park and climbed a precipice at sunset and we also got lost in the desert on the way to a small music festival but one of the women who was expecting us was sitting at a dusty crossroads, in a camp chair, cold beer in an icebox just as we thought we were goners. “I knew y’all would pass by here eventually,” she said, as if sitting in the middle of the desert, nothing as far as the eye could see, was the most natural thing in the world. When we finally got to Vegas, we fell in with a Star Wars convention and got hit on by a bunch of StormTroopers, in full costume.
Phew. We’re exhausted just reading that one, frankly.
And we’ll leave you with this rather heart-warming tale from our commercial team:
When I was finishing up towards my school days, I was lucky enough to go to India, most notably Calcutta. I got to immerse myself in the culture, the food, and the people, and I have memories which have lasted me forever, and further encouraged me to always consider those in need before myself, and to always recognise how lucky I am.
To discover new horizons, you have to take the road less travelled. Stories are the source of every great conversation. Go where you haven’t been. Leave the city behind. Clear your mind. Add adventures. Add friends. Add memories and add meaning. And when you return, go tell your story. Check out the new MINI COUNTRYMAN to start your adventure now. #AddStories
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So what they’re saying is that the government bailed them out and they’re doing nothing with that money except for hoarding it and loaning to their buddies? What a total shocker. I never saw that coming.
Fair play to ISME for keeping this issue highlighted, many businesses are trying to keep going and even develop on cash flow knowing it is a time consuming and costly waste of time even applying for credit, business is being strangled and bled to death by government inaction on credit and high costs.
SMEs are possibly the worst exploiters of workers in Ireland. They flaunt labour laws, hide behind the likes of ISME and the SFA.
When it comes back buy a safe .
What?
No mention of the 90% of applicants told by bank staff not to bother applying for a loan?
Considering the banks were in such deep denial in 2008 it’s no wonder since the same cronies are still running the shop that they are hording cash. And whilst they continue to keep their bonuses, from the money we bailed them out with – the rest of the SME’s can sink – with us along with them. The business page of the Sunday Indo had the finest example of how the ‘enterprise challenged’ heads of BOI behave, letting a Jemie Jenkins business fold through lack of a credit line backed by letters of credit from his export customers – he had export orders worth thousands in the states for crying out loud! Just shows even when they promote enterprise week in may and dragons den they are apathetic to any economic need – other than the economy of their own pockets! – Pillar bank my ole!
Ye! forgot about that one – dead right Harry, I was one of them !
The banks are protecting themselves at the direct cost, not only to small and medium enterprises but to the whole economy. While this government waffles and dithers about bank interventions, SMEs are being terrorised and ultimately shut down by discredited bailed-out bankers, arrogant at top level and ignorant at branch level. With 96% of business owners of the opinion that Government have either a negative or no impact on SME lending, this Administration must act now and install active management into the banks, representing the owners, the taxpayers, to ensure honest reporting, sustainable reform and a return to proper banking.
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Get your friends together and sign a petition. Bring that petition to your local TD’s, tell them that they need to confront the banks…all of the banks in your area, that you expect that your TD will write to the local banking institutions informing them that all of the signatories will take their money out of the bank, close their accounts and refuse to do business with them until they begin to loan to the SME sector again. You get 10 or 15 TD’s involved with that (and many TD’s would be delighted of the photo opportunity and to be seen on the side of the little guy) get some air time and a little public anger going and the threat that deposits might suddenly en masse start walking out the door…watch the little piggies squeal then!!
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