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My son Brendan and his girlfriend Ayla are now free having completed their two week quarantine period in the 'Holiday Inn' in Auckland!

They talk about their last day in "captivity", the final part of that process and what it was like to enter a country where there is no Covid!!

Besides the elation of meeting family, friends and freedom they discuss the attitude towards Covid, restrictions and if the "success" there is due to the attitude of the people, leadership or geography.

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Ayla Amano on Instagram

This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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In this episode I chat with Alma Brosnan, our Social Media expert and our Head of Communications and former journalist, Ciara Jordan.

We chat about recent social media trends and the consequences of these for consumer, community and business facing businesses and organisations, we chat about the consequences of censoring content and the unplugging of Donald Trump.

We also chat about the unique role that social media plays in your marketing mix and the special opportunities that podcasts can offer.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

This show is edited by Oliva Trought

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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I'm sure we have all been away on holidays in a special place and you pass an auctioneers window and gaze at the houses for sale and think "what if"?

While it's a nice dream, quickly after 60 seconds you rationalise and the dream is gone.

Ciara O'Toole, our very special friend and her husband gazed at that window and decided "lets do it"!!

This is a chat with author of the book "Going Solo on Lake Como" where she tells her story incredible story that is full with many twists and turns!

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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As part of our mini 'New Zealand' series I chat with my son Brendan Canty and his girlfriend, Ayla Amano on their very last day of quarantine in the Holiday Inn in Auckland.

They describe the detailed routine, the testing, the food, the exercise, the room confinement, the transparency and the lengths that the government go to, ensuring that any trace of Covid is caught and does not enter the country, keeping their citizens healthy and safe and enjoying living normal lives.

All of this in stark contrast to the "living with Covid" approach, which has everyone in Ireland done in at this stage.

Enjoy the show!

To track their progress:

Brendan Canty on Instagram

Ayla Amano on Instagram

This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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Greg on Twitter

Email Greg for feedback or suggested guests: [email protected]

It was great to get the chance to talk to my friend, Joe Kavanagh the Lord Mayor of Cork City, 100 years after the Burning of Cork.

We chat about his life and career, the motivation that drives him to get things done in his community, the machinery of local and national politics, his perspective of our city, his role as Lord Mayor, and his opinion about a directly elected Mayor.

Inevitably we chat about Covid and also the great advice his dad gave him that he lives by: "If you do your best, you will have no regrets"

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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Without music there would be no Joe Carey at The White Horse in Ballincollig, Cork.

In no time at all The White Horse in Ballincollig, as well as being a great pub and restaurant, has carved out a huge reputation as a very special intimate music venue in Ireland - one of the very best.

Joe , the owner turned his back on music many moons ago after an exhausting flirt with fame with his own band, Jodavino and after many years of running very special music nights and festivals he is back at the heart of music with a variety of acts such as the White Horse Guitar Club and is also back song writing.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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In this episode I catch up with my son Brendan Canty and his girlfriend, Ayla Amano from the Holiday Inn in Auckland on day 2 of their 14 day quarantine.

They chat about the journey from Ireland, the testing regime along the way, how the hotel manage their unusual guests (or are they prisoners?) and how the Kiwis feel about these "extreme" measures.

Brendan says he was surprised by that sense of overwhelming relief getting away from the Irish Covid cloud, which is slowly but surely gnawing at all of our minds.

And...we discuss the very different Irish approach to Covid

Enjoy the show

To track their progress:

Brendan Canty on Instagram

Ayla Amano on Instagram

This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Greg's blog

Greg on Twitter

Email Greg for feedback or suggested guests: [email protected]

My son Brendan and his girlfriend Ayla, who comes from Auckland in New Zealand begin their journey to New Zealand complete with visas and Covid tests and face a two week quarantine period in a hotel when they get there.

As we know New Zealand was one of those regimes that successfully took this approach to protecting their citizens.

The prize for them after all of this endurance will be a two month mask free well earned break visiting family, meeting friends, meals out, packed pubs, gigs and lots of hugs - remember that life?

I've asked them to share their experience with me, so they've agreed periodically to check in and capture these moments and this recording is part one, the journey to the train station!

Yesterday in Ireland (Jan 16th) we had 3,231 new Covid cases and 60 people died.

Enjoy the show!

To track their progress:

Brendan Canty on Instagram

Ayla Amano on Instagram

This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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In this episode renowned economists, Jim Power and Chris Johns assess 2021 putting forward both a "realistic" negative and a positive outlook for the year.

We discuss both sides of the coin including the likely effects of Brexit, Covid and the aftermath of the Trump chaos and arrive at a conclusion..

Is it a negative or a positive outlook?

PS : And we also discuss some music!

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

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Briona Gallagher has a crazy, bumpy and colourful story from start to finish, as she went from being the extremely quiet girl in Ennis to the weed smoking tattoo artist in California, to the writer who "found" herself in part with the help of a 71 year old housemate in Cork!

Through her "How Not to be a Hater" website and book (to come soon), which has just launched, she hopes to help others through some of the life lessons she has learned along this zig zag road of hers, and by sharing stories that inspire her.

Enjoy the show!

This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Greg's blog

Greg on Twitter

Email Greg for feedback or suggested guests: [email protected]