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IAN KEHOE HAS been given the nod to fill the vacant editor’s slot at the Sunday Business Post.
After much speculation about who would fill the role, Post reporter Roisin Burke gave the game away on Twitter this morning when she said she was “delighted” to have Kehoe as her new editor.
The Post later issued a statement confirming the appointment, which TheJournal.ie understands staff were only officially told about this morning.
The full-time editor’s slot has been vacant since the paper’s long-standing editor Cliff Taylor stood down in July after a decade in the job.
Kehoe, a former business journalist of the year winner at the National Newspapers of Ireland Journalism Awards, left his job as the Sunday Business Post’s chief correspondent in 2010 for a brief stint with RTÉ.
Two years later he ditched the national broadcaster to return to his old haunt as assistant editor and business editor.
“Exciting time” as paper’s sales plummet
He will be fighting plunging sales at the Sunday business title, which shed about 11% of its circulation between the first half of 2013 and the same period this year.
Only five years ago the Post was selling an average 57,783 copies each week, but by this year the figure had dropped to 34,012.
In a statement, Post managing director Paul Cooke said the job came “at an exciting time in the life of the business” with the “stabilisation” of its circulation and the pending roll-out of new digital platforms.
Kehoe said: “I am delighted to have been selected as one of Ireland’s youngest national newspaper editors. I have ambitious plans for the future development of the Sunday Business Post, both in print and digital form.”
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Sleep walking into a firmly controlled disaster!
@Colette Kearns: those newbies oblivious to whats coming!
Cash is still king folks keep using it as much as possible
A cashless society is a dark road to totalitarian control. They will know where you spend your money and how you spend your money. If your political ideology does not align with theirs they simply freeze you out of the system just like Canada did. Infactvits already happened here
@GreenFlag: not really about control. But the sane person who n
@GreenFlag: not really about control. But the same person who makes your argument will go shopping in Tesco with their club card (shoes Tesco everything you buy and how often you buy and your demographic breakdown) as well as accepting cookies on websites and allowing meta to look
At you personal info. But it’s the paying with card which is the bad thing .. clearly ..
@Ciaran: Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) is coming; plans are well advanced in the US,UK, EU and elsewhere. These currencies will be programmable, i.e. where, when and on what you spend ‘your’ money will be monitored and controlled. This is not the same as voluntarily sharing meta data with some social media platform.
Research CBDCs and understand a cashless society is not good for the ordinary citizen.
@GreenFlag: why do you even have a phone then?
Hardly surprising as contactless is easier and safer for those paying, plus merchants don’t have the costs and security concerns of handling cash.
@Stephen Kearon: More like merchants have to declare all transactions.
Should this article not be marked as “Sponsored By BOI or AIB” ?…….Cash is KING.
@Eddie Feeney:
They could at least sponsor the stock image
@Sandra Anderson: and that’s a bad thing?
Cashless is the way to go. Get rid of the blackmarket and the brown envelopes.
And what do you propose in its place? One thing is for sure, the only market losing out on this is the black market
Of course. That is what the educational system, (run by mercenary merchants have told them to do), is anyone surprised? I know I am not. I’ve been warned about this sort of thing by the conspiracy theorists. Ha ha ha. How about using all those critical faculties you were told you had, when you started at university. Pity you seem to have lost them on the way out and gained a loan that you are unlikely to be ever able to pay back. You are now a criminal in one country if not another. Welcome to the new world renowned among us, by us, and don’t bother to ask for justice. You should know by now you are not going to get it on the journal. When all hope is lost. That’s when you will have a chance to chat with the most high. Ain’t that good news?
I love cash and will only use cash
Happy to use the card cept for the bank fees.
@der Fussballmeister: What bank fees are you referring to? Contactless payments are free (/included with your account servicing fees) with all retail banks in Ireland. ATM withdrawals are not.
The only reason I dont fully go cashless, and even more so, contactless, is that it is too handy. So handy in fact that people can forget and just keep tapping. Call me old fashioned, but I continue to take my weekly cash out so I can see exactly where it goes and how much I have left for the rest of the week. It has nothing to do about worrying about the New World Orders or that the banks and shops and government knowing what I spend my money on…..just me, myself, keeping control of where it goes.
I buy all my tinfoil hats with cash. Can’t beat it.
Heading for cashless
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