McArdle Associates

09/06/2018

Please watch this cool little video a few times to help my sister Marion's school win 30 tablets for the kids. Go on, they need every view they can get.

Fifth class from Castletown National School, Dundalk, Co. Louth performing their Safe Cross Code routine.

08/06/2015

When to use "who" and when to use "whom". Nice little video from the New Yorker.

“Who” and “whom” are relative pronouns, and the trick for choosing the right one is to switch the clause around so that you can substitute a personal pronoun.

06/06/2015

Bloom is such a fantastic show. Great to see it doing so well. Was a huge success again this year, even though the weather was dodgy enough. Bloom gets bigger and better every year and it's a credit to the organisers. I'm always delighted to work on it and be associated with it. It's a great show.

More than 100,000 expected to attend the five-day event in Dublin’s Phoenix Park

17/02/2015

Ireland is the first country ever in which female solicitors outnumber male solicitors.

In a first for any legal profession in the world, female Irish solicitors now outnumber male solicitors practising in Ireland.

16/02/2015

This is a lovely little film about Teddy Gray's amazingly old-fashioned sweet factory in Dudley.

Magnum photographer, Martin Parr returns to using a film camera in this wonderfully engaging documentary about Teddy Gray's sweet factory in Dudley in the We...

08/09/2014

"The son of a bitch pardoned the son of a bitch" Carl Bernstein to Bob Woodward on Ford pardoning Nixon 40yrs ago http://buff.ly/WGpl4x

Ford let Nixon off 40 years ago today. That launched Iran/contra, Too Big To Fail -- and proved power trumps law

07/08/2014

Good news for Gaeilgeoiri. Now you can have a fada (or any other accented character) in your gmail address. http://buff.ly/V2XHNN

26/02/2014

This is pretty cool. A new technology for delivering text. Can you make sense of content at 500 wpm? http://buff.ly/1evAYMV

02/06/2013

Good to get some coverage in the Irish Times for an event I'm working on. The Táin March is happening next weekend (7th, 8th and 9th June) and it's fast becoming the definitive event celebrating Ireland's greatest epic saga, the Táin Bó Cuailnge.

13/05/2013

Glasgow Rangers gets its market research wrong. Can't see them selling many of these.

24/04/2013

EU countries reached a deal with the European Parliament on Monday (22 April) on the bloc's first common rules on mortgage lending, in an attempt to avoid a repeat of property bubbles that helped fuel the euro zone's debt crisis.

17/04/2013

An airport worker leaves his job to concentrate on his cake business. This is Mr Cake's resignation letter. A very nifty promotion that got its just desserts (I know...) in going viral.

An airport worker has announced his resignation – via the medium of cake.