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Irish Water: Just throwing money and comms at it won’t fix the problem.

Mick Fealty on January 29, 2014, 1:21 pm

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[Wicked problems are] social problems which are ill formulated, where the information is confusing, where there are many clients and decision-makers with conﬂicting values, and where the ramiﬁcations in the whole system are thoroughly confusing. – C. West Churchman You hardly need a crystal ball to see things are not going well for Irish Water. Its much smaller and less complex counterpart Northern Ireland Water has had four CEOs since 2007. A situation that’s been vacant now for four months, …

And then there were four….

Mick Fealty on August 16, 2011, 11:10 pm

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Interesting it seems to have taken so long to get even a modicum of competition in the energy market place here. But it seems the monopoly enjoyed by the company formerly known as NIE Energy is to face hefty competition from three others… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. …