Whatever happened to...

iMax

Ivor Calleley - just seemed to disappear off the front page

That competition fronted by ladyprez so that they could get Ireland back on top (if we ever where). They'd own your idea & give you €100k for it or something

???

(feel free to add your own if you can answer mine)

FatherLen

i think maybe politics thread.......

bonerm

.... the Likely Lads?

fedor.2.

boards.ie?

AntiMatter

...Baby Jane?

Sykk

Ivor Calleley accidentally the whole thing.

bonerm

.... all the heroes? No more heroes any more.

admiralofthefleet

the second page

flyton5

the days when the guards were friends of the church? drink driving charges quashed, a blind eye turned to the odd murder...

PCPhoto

iMax wrote: »

Ivor Calleley - just seemed to disappear off the front page

That competition fronted by ladyprez so that they could get Ireland back on top (if we ever where). They'd own your idea & give you €100k for it or something

???

(feel free to add your own if you can answer mine)

since this is still AH .... Callely (or however you spell it) ... is probably hiding under his blanket in his West Cork home while claiming expenses for a trip to Oz ...on Government Business of course !!

The competition thingy - Father and son are fighting over who actually won and how they split the prize.

if this is moved to Politics -

Callely is awaiting the outcome of the High Court hearing which was Judgement Reserved (last time I heard) .... so sometime in the new term we might hear the outcome of that and then maybe there can be sanctions taken against him (if found guilty...possible legal implications)
.....like everything to do with the government ....it goes slowly...very slowly...until you are either not bothered by it anymore ..or till the person gets the result they want.

The Aras Competition thing is due to start implementating the framework next year 2012...so we start to become an international hub for something or other some time after that.

Following a quick google for more updates on the competition I found this:
http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news/article/2010/mar/28/aras-contests-leading-entry-deleted-amid-spam-susp/

Áras contest's leading entry deleted amid spam suspicion
Ken Foxe, Public Affairs Correspondent
THE most popular submission to the Your Country Your Call competition was deleted from the contest website by organisers last week.

An ambitious plan by an organisation calling itself the Zeitgeist movement had called for Ireland to research a resource-based economy instead of one based on banks and profiteering. However, the proposal, which raced into first place as the most popular suggestion, was removed amid suspicion there had been an orchestrated campaign to support it.

The submissions list for Your Country Your Call so far has been characterised by the tongue-in-cheek nature of many of the proposals, which include a monorail in Dublin, a mile-high skyscraper in the midlands and the invention of a Loch Ness-style monster for tourism promotion.

The Zeitgeist proposal, however, was considered genuine, but organisers deemed that it was "not in keeping with the competition".

A spokeswoman for Your Country Your Call said: "It was indeed removed from the site last Monday. There were a number of reasons it was taken off, but the behaviour surrounding it broke our conditions.

"We had comments and submissions complaining about it, saying it was not a proposal to the benefit of
Ireland and it did not meet the criteria.

"It seemed as if there was an organised movement behind it, organising a high level of voting.

"The voting is not directly material in this competition, but we felt there was an element of spamming. We did communicate this decision directly with them."

James Kavanagh of the Zeitgeist movement said that he had still received no official statement on why the proposal had been jettisoned.

"I think there is a collective disillusionment with the website and there is simply no real justification for saying it was not in keeping with the brief of the website," he said. "They say they are looking for a truly transformational project that would create jobs. Granted, it won't create jobs, but many of the proposals wouldn't either.

"Our proposal was deleted prior to a lot of people being allowed to see it and yet even before it was removed, we had a huge number of people visiting the website who were seriously interested in this.

"That is not indicative of a spamming exercise. We took it as our responsibility to try and get a message out there."

Your Country Your Call, which is being championed by President Mary McAleese and her husband Martin, is offering €100,000 in prize money to each of two people, along with a further €500,000 to develop the winning ideas.

March 28, 2010

AnotherYou

I'm James Kavanagh, and I'm yet to hear from those guys. After about 8 E-mails.

445279.ie

"The truth shall set you free" :rolleyes:

http://www.thejournal.ie/ivors-seanad-finale-the-truth-shall-set-you-free-2011-01/

johnmcdnl

why couldn't the thread have been called "what happened to ivor calley" so we'd have know it was a ****e thread and wouldn't have clicked into it :mad:

Nolanger

Carrie Crowley.

hondasam

probably thinking up a way to con more money from the tax payers.